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One (of several) drawbacks to life in SE Texas...



There are a few drawbacks to living in southeast Texas. Among the more significant includes hurricane season. No me gusta.

 I have the National Hurricane Center website bookmarked - have for years - and I am a bit obsessive about it. Of course, it's all in the name of keeping myself prepared for the eventual/inevitable. But it's nerve racking.

 http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo_atl.shtml

 Right now there are a couple of areas of interest, one in the Caribbean and one out off the coast of Africa. The one in the Caribbean is headed north west towards the Yucatan Peninsula and then into the Bay of Campeche. After that it's still too early to tell. The waters in the Gulf are very warm - nearly 90 degrees (!) - so it would appear conducive to storm formation. The one off the coast of Africa is at least a week and a half away, and therefore more susceptible to turns to the north out over the open Atlantic. The high pressure ridge that forms over the Atlantic this time of year tends to steer storms our way, though, so you never really know. Hence the need for vigilance... Our area seems to get a storm about once every five years or so. The last one was Hurricane Ike in 2008 (I was here for that and wrote about it). So maybe we're due for a little something. Let's hope that it is just a little something...

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