Emily May be Knocking on the Door

[hobbyfarm]

From the tip of TEXAS at Brownsville, we are 70 miles up the Rio Grande, and about 15 miles north of the Border with Mexico.
Normally, this wouldn't bother me, but this year there are construction sites all around me as the building craze heats up here. LOTS of loose building material shrapnel to get you.
(I've been fighting the construction trash for a while now, maybe it'll all blow away)
But, we need the rain. Seems the local w/men expect 6-12" of rain in our area.
Good thing I'm on a hill. Also, I'm glad this isn't Florida. One close call with a hurricane every decade is plenty. I imagine it would suck to live in the Carribean - 10-12 hurricanes a year just passing through. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[txdon]

Good Luck, and keep us updated as the storm approaches as long as you can. Do you have a generator?

 

[hobbyfarm]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Do you have a generator? )</font>
txdon,
No, not yet.
I tend to view this a chance to "camp". So, to me low key is the option that's best at this time. For now, we've got to get the small stuff - canned goods, spare batteries, etc.

 

[hobbyfarm]

<font color="teal">Emily</font> seems to have veered left a touch.
Most probably gonna hit the mountains about Monterrey, Mexico (150 miles or so south). Those mountains eat hurricanes for lunch! Then it's all about the rain.

 

[turnkey4099]

Looks like it is going to go up the continental divide just about. Too bad. I know a lot of people were hoping it would give the middle of the country some much needed rain.

Harry K

 

[hobbyfarm]

It'll be a big help if the TEXAS watershed gets some. May help the Edwards Aquifer also.
As long as it makes it on the north side of the mountains in Mexico, we should benefit a great deal.

It's almost a terrible thing to say, but, there's no shot in the arm of the economy like a natural disaster. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
I'll bet there's not a generator to be had south of San Antonio now. Of course, after the storm, you won't find a chain saw anywhere either.

 

[txdon]

Hobbyfarm looks like you are getting pelted by rain, how are you holding up and how gusty is the wind?

 

[hobbyfarm]

We're getting some rain in spots. Cloud passed across the street and I still have dust in my yard.
Tomorrow should be another story. It's still not windy at all here. No more than the normal gusts off the Gulf.

 

[hobbyfarm]

Relief!
Emily hit land last night, around 90 miles or so south of Brownsville. The rain guage is overflowing now, still no more wind than usual.
As the hurricane dies, it will spin off tornados.

In my yard, just one wrist-sized live oak branch snapped. I was going to prune that one anyway.
Everything else is doing fine.

 

[Cowboyjg]

I feel your relief. I live just south of Tampa, Fl. We hve an old story here about a princess daughter of Hernando Desoto who watches over us. Whether she really does or not is less important than the fact that we have been very lucky here.

Y'all down there are in our prayers.