[philmont] Hurricane Humberto

If it ain't one thing, it's another. Welcome to Texas Mark!
   
  I just turned in the final claim for damage from Hurricane Rita almost two years ago and when I got to work this evening we busily prepared the plant for T. S. Humberto which sprang up just offshore.
   
  As I type this it's 2:58 CDST and raining with winds gusting to 60 mph. The eye of Humberto is just to the SW of us headed our way.
   
  Hopefully it won't spawn any tornadoes which are the most damaging in these minimul hurricanes.
   
  There isn't much left in this area that hurricanes will blow down because Rita pretty much got it all two years alo.
   
  Hopefully by dawns early light we will see that's the case and I can go home and get a good days sleep.
   
  Here is the latest from the AP.
   
  John <eBlanc
   
  By MICHAEL GRACZYK
Associated Press Writer
HOUSTON (AP) - Humberto strengthened into a hurricane early
Thursday (12:37AM CDST) as it edged toward the Texas coast,
   packing 80 mph winds and promising more rain and possible
  flooding to a state coming off
one of the wettest summers in more than 50 years.
At 1:15 a.m. EDT, the center of the hurricane was about 20 miles
east of Galveston and about 15 miles south of High Island. It was
moving toward the north-northeast near 8 mph.
Forecasters warned residents along a 220-mile stretch of
coastline extending into southwestern Louisiana to brace for the
storm, which was expected to slosh ashore south of Houston
overnight.
The storm's center was expected to come ashore between High
Island and Sabine Pass early Thursday, the National Weather Service
said. A hurricane warning was issued from east of High Island,
Texas, to Cameron, La.
The storm's rain bands were spreading over the coast and between
5 and 10 inches of rain was expected, with some spots possibly
getting as much as 15 inches. But authorities said evacuations were
not necessary.
The area expected to be hit the hardest is in the far southeast
corner of Texas from Galveston Island eastward. It includes the
Beaumont and Port Arthur areas.
Texas has had one of the wettest summers on record, with Houston
soaked under the most rain it's had in a summer since 1942. With
the ground already saturated, flooding was likely.
In Austin, Gov. Rick Perry activated 50 military vehicles with
200 soldiers, plus a half-dozen helicopters and two swift-water
rescue teams. Other crews from the U.S. Coast Guard were on
standby.
"Some areas of our state remain saturated by summer floods, and
many communities in this storm's projected path are at high risk of
dangerous flash flooding," Perry said.
The warning area included Louisiana's Cameron Parish, which was
devastated by Hurricane Rita in September 2005. More than 500
federally issued travel trailers and mobile homes remain there.
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco declared a state of emergency.
Shelters were on standby in some areas, and sandbags and sand were
being made available, officials said.
Last month, at least six deaths were blamed on Tropical Storm
Erin, which dropped nearly a foot of rain in parts of San Antonio,
Houston and the Texas Hill Country.
In 2001, slow-moving Tropical Storm Allison soaked Houston,
dumping about 20 inches of rain in eight hours. About two dozen
people died, sections of the city were paralyzed and damage was
estimated at roughly $5 billion.
Humberto's arrival comes just days after Galveston last Saturday
marked the 107th anniversary of the great 1900 storm where more
than 6,000 people were killed in what remains the nation's
deadliest natural disaster.
Humberto is the eighth named storm this year and formed from a
depression that developed Wednesday morning. It became a Category
One hurricane when winds reached 74 mph.
Another tropical depression also formed Wednesday far in the
open Atlantic, about 1,065 miles east of the Lesser Antilles. It
had maximum sustained winds near 35 mph and was moving
west-northwest at about 12 mph. Forecasters said it could become a
tropical storm later Wednesday.

       
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Received on Thu Sep 13 03:07:46 2007