To All Cuffers in the South

[Moliere]

Not even comparable.

[wuapinmon]

[frank ryan]

I'm glad they named it Ernesto.

I'm sure tropical storm Barack is just around the corner.

[Moliere]

I'm glad they named it Ernesto.

[wuapinmon]

We leave for vacation on Tuesday, which means if this thing hits Houston we would be 2,000 miles away, which is good and bad. It's good because we won't have to put up with power outages and hot weather. It's bad because if our house gets damaged I'll likely have to cut the vacation short and come back. Granted the possibility of major damage the house is remote as we've already cut down our tall pine trees, but debris or anything else could do damage that results in flooding inside the house.

We have interesting timing with hurricanes. When Gustav hit we were on vacation in the Florida panhandle. We had to cut that vacation short by 1.5 days so we could drive back to Houston, otherwise we risked getting stuck for 3-5 more days in Florida. Then when Ike hit we were on vacation in Utah. In fact, Ike hit Friday night/Saturday morning and that Saturday MJ and I went to the BYU/UCLA game. We called a ward member from I-15 (on our way to the game) and he checked on the house. Luckily all was fine and the one pine tree that fell went away from the house and just took out the fence and skirted our neighbors garage.

Current models are showing this thing skirting the northern coast of Mexico and landing south of Houston. I hope that course holds, but we'll prepare the house for a hurricane anyway just in case. At times like these it's nice to be a part of a tight-knit church community.

Yep, the Church does a good job after disasters.

[Pheidippides]

I bet most Houstonians would take a Cat 3 hurricane any day over what happened with TS Allison.

Done and done. I will take a Cat 2 just for the fun of it - no payment required.

[Moliere]

Category 1 when it goes over the Yucatan? Weak sauce! Will probably provide some much needed rain by the time it reaches Texas.

I bet most Houstonians would take a Cat 3 hurricane any day over what happened with TS Allison.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Category 1 when it goes over the Yucatan? Weak sauce! Will probably provide some much needed rain by the time it reaches Texas.

[Moliere]

Classic Hurricane Alley path......sorry, man.

We leave for vacation on Tuesday, which means if this thing hits Houston we would be 2,000 miles away, which is good and bad. It's good because we won't have to put up with power outages and hot weather. It's bad because if our house gets damaged I'll likely have to cut the vacation short and come back. Granted the possibility of major damage the house is remote as we've already cut down our tall pine trees, but debris or anything else could do damage that results in flooding inside the house.

We have interesting timing with hurricanes. When Gustav hit we were on vacation in the Florida panhandle. We had to cut that vacation short by 1.5 days so we could drive back to Houston, otherwise we risked getting stuck for 3-5 more days in Florida. Then when Ike hit we were on vacation in Utah. In fact, Ike hit Friday night/Saturday morning and that Saturday MJ and I went to the BYU/UCLA game. We called a ward member from I-15 (on our way to the game) and he checked on the house. Luckily all was fine and the one pine tree that fell went away from the house and just took out the fence and skirted our neighbors garage.

Current models are showing this thing skirting the northern coast of Mexico and landing south of Houston. I hope that course holds, but we'll prepare the house for a hurricane anyway just in case. At times like these it's nice to be a part of a tight-knit church community.

[wuapinmon]

Classic Hurricane Alley path......sorry, man.

[Uncle Ted]

Cool. I was wondering when we would get some more rain.

[Moliere]

[Indy Coug]

July in Houston was incredibly mild. When I get the report early next month I'll post some stats, but suffice it to say we had record cool temps in Houston in July....at least on average. It's now getting hotter, but the rain has helped keep temps down.

It was a lot hotter than that where I was, which is considerably north of Houston.

[Moliere]

It's been downright pleasant, if you consider 90 and humid pleasant. Better than 98 and humid.

It's been cold if you compare it to last summer

[Pheidippides]

July in Houston was incredibly mild. When I get the report early next month I'll post some stats, but suffice it to say we had record cool temps in Houston in July....at least on average. It's now getting hotter, but the rain has helped keep temps down.

It's been downright pleasant, if you consider 90 and humid pleasant. Better than 98 and humid.