Tropical Storm Edouard came up rather suddenly in the Gulf of Mexico. It is taking aim at Galveston, Texas, but will definately affect the coastal areas of Louisiana. Terrebonne Parish, where we live, is as vulnerable as any coastal parish, and those living further down the bayou than we do, will be impacted, not so much from the wind, as from the storm surge and heavy rains. We are on the bad side of the storm, but it is not intense enough to do the kind of damage that Katrina and Rita did. Those in extreme SW Louisiana near the Texas border could possibly experience hurricane force winds, considerable storm surge, and torrential rains as they did with Rita, but not likely as damaging.Speaking of bad storms at inconvenient times, it appears that the Beijing Olympic events, only days away, may experience lightning, thunder and rain on the day of the Olympic opening ceremony and possibly typhoons disrupting events in other host cities, according to weather forecasters.
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I hadn't even heard about Edouard--I'll be sure to keep an eye on it! I think that's interesting about China, too. While bad weather can happen anywhere, it seems like picking China was a bad decision for an endless amount of reasons. Should be interesting...
I just heard about this storm yesterday. Hopefully like you said you will dodge the bullet but it looks like Houston might not. That will probably make the gas $$ go up.
Our weather isn't that extreme but we are in the middle of a record string of 90 plus temperature days. I'm sure that kind of heat string is pretty par for the course down there!!
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