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Hurricane Beryl Heads for Texas

A Hurricane Warning is in effect for The Texas coast from Baffin Bay northward to San Luis Pass.

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It is currently a Tropical Storm, but it is expected to strengthen over the warm waters of the Gulf into a Hurricane before it hits the Texas coast.

Regardless, the amount of rain will be significant, and the winds may bring a storm surge.

The remnants (mostly rain) are due here in CT on Thursday/Friday.

Here's the current NWS warning ...
www.nhc.noaa.gov

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Key Messages for Tropical Storm Beryl
Advisory 37: 4:00 PM CDT Sun Jul 07, 2024

1. There is a danger of life-threatening storm surge inundation along the coast of Texas from the north entrance to the Padre Island National Seashore to Sabine Pass, including Matagorda Bay and Galveston Bay. Residents in those areas should follow any advice given by local officials and follow evacuation orders.

2. Beryl is forecast to bring damaging hurricane-force winds to portions of the Texas coast tonight and early Monday. A Hurricane Warning is in effect from Baffin Bay to San Luis Pass.

3. Considerable flash and urban flooding is expected tonight through Monday night across portions of the middle and upper Texas Gulf Coast and eastern Texas. Minor to isolated major river flooding is also expected.
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#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-07 06:21 PM | Reply

That storm is old enough to run for president.

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-07-08 12:07 AM | Reply

Back to hurricane is latest report from NHC.

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-07-08 01:02 AM | Reply

I'm a couple counties from the worst of it but still getting wind and a lot of rain. We lost power yesterday evening as the first feeder band moved through. I suspect widespread power outages from all the hardwoods that are dead but still standing due to the drought over the last couple of years.

#4 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-07-08 09:13 AM | Reply

Sooner or later Governor Wheels will call Biden to ask for help for 'the disaster in Texas'. Diamond Joe should put Abbott on hold for a few hours, to return the courtesy extended to Biden by Texans in general...

#5 | Posted by catdog at 2024-07-08 09:14 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I'm in the worst of it lol. The tornado direct hit was just 2 months ago.

#6 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-07-08 09:37 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Sooner or later Governor Wheels will call Biden to ask for help for 'the disaster in Texas'. Diamond Joe should put Abbott on hold for a few hours, to return the courtesy extended to Biden by Texans in general...

#5 | Posted by catdog at 2024-07-08 09:14 AM | Reply | Flag:

Could you explain to the class, exactly where the money the Federal Government may provide as help, comes from?

#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-07-08 09:51 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I'm in the worst of it lol. The tornado direct hit was just 2 months ago.

#6 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-07-08 09:37 AM | Reply | Flag:

You should be fine. It's the Northeast quad that's about to tag us.

#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-07-08 09:53 AM | Reply

I am overly prepared.

#9 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-07-08 09:58 AM | Reply

I am overly prepared.

#9 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-07-08 09:58 AM | Reply | Flag:

Same here. IF power goes out for more than a week I'll be out of juice though.

#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-07-08 10:10 AM | Reply

I suspect widespread power outages from all the hardwoods that are dead but still standing due to the drought over the last couple of years.

#4 | Posted by lfthndthrds

...due to the climate change that your cult says isn't happening.

Thoughts and prayers.

#11 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-07-08 12:21 PM | Reply

#7.
Simple yes or no answer please.

Did you believe that when Sandy flooded Blue States? I don't recall the "taker" Southern States were so inclined.

Were you finger wagging when Texans vote against bills to provide storm relief to NY,PA, and other Northern States.

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#12 | Posted by Wardog at 2024-07-08 12:33 PM | Reply

Gov Hot Wheels danced the Ted Cruz 'surrender and run' shuffle' in the face of Texas disaster need.

#13 | Posted by Wardog at 2024-07-08 12:37 PM | Reply

My favorite thing is watching climate change deniers in States of the Former Confederacy getting their stuff washed away in the storm surges. The scramble for property insurance down there will be very amusing!

#14 | Posted by john47 at 2024-07-08 12:38 PM | Reply

That'd be flood insurance. FEMA subsidizes it.

#15 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-07-08 12:59 PM | Reply

"Climate change" Because we never had hurricanes before Trump was elected. This storm barely made it on dry ground as an official 75mph hurricane and you clowns ast like the sky fell to the ground

#16 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-07-08 01:01 PM | Reply

"Climate change" Because we never had hurricanes before Trump was elected. This storm barely made it on dry ground as an official 75mph hurricane and you clowns ast like the sky fell to the ground

#16 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Of course we did. Climate change has been getting worse since long before trump. All the way back to when exxon's own scientists realized their products would cause climate change, but the executives buried their findings and started a propaganda war against science instead.

#17 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-07-08 01:11 PM | Reply

The increasing threat posed by storms are a result of a number of interacting factors:

1. Strength and frequency of storms is increasing due to Climate Change
2. Impact of storms is being exacerbated by development, changing infiltration areas into areas that direct stormwater elsewhere
3. Encroachment of wetland areas giving storm water less volume to store during storm events causing flooding-the recent SC decision that isolated wetlands can be filled will significantly increase flooding-water, despite conservative beliefs, finds the lowest area, if you fill one low area the water will go somewhere else.
4. Infrastructure not designed to handle stormwater surges resulting in flooding, flooding damage and power outages.
5. Increased population meaning there are simply more people to be impacted.

#18 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-08 01:12 PM | Reply

That is simple reality

You can take (as a society) 1 of 3 approaches

1. Live in reality and address the issues thus mitigating the damage
2. Live in reality and accept the costs
3. Live in unreality and act like the issue isn't real

Way back in college a earth engineering professor explained that water causes more death and destruction than any other natural phenomenon

#19 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-08 01:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

And during this disaster, where Is the governor of Abottistan? In a foreign country, trying to coax Taiwan businesses into coming here with promise of big tax breaks, which will of course be resulting in increased property taxes for us homeowners. Again.

#20 | Posted by e1g1 at 2024-07-08 09:42 PM | Reply

Hey lefthandturds
NO, Texas never had a major hurricane in early July in my 50 years of living here. But please, continue debasing yourself with each ignorant post you vomit.

#21 | Posted by e1g1 at 2024-07-08 09:44 PM | Reply

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#14 | Posted by john47 at 2024-07-08 12:38 PM
My favorite thing is watching climate change deniers in States of the Former Confederacy getting their stuff washed away in the storm surges. The scramble for property insurance down there will be very amusing!

Amusing? Will it be more or less "amusing" in "red" states like, e.g., TX and FL that have been prone to hurricane floodings even before "climate change/global warming" entered our vocabulary than the fires and huge increases in insurance rates in "blue" states like, e.g., CA and OR?

Or do you think that the "natural disasters" only affect the states with supposedly greater number of "climate change deniers"?

Were the residents / governments of some Caribbean islands, where up to 90 percent of houses were destroyed by Beryl, "climate change deniers" and/or could do something to prevent it but didn't, or do "acts of nature" aka "acts of God" aka "natural disasters" mostly depend on geography and not the population's "beliefs"?

https://www.carinsurance.org/car-insurance-coverage-what-are-acts-of-god-and-when-are-they-covered-
829/ - What are 'Acts of God' and when are they covered? - July 6, 2024

BTW, Texas is the largest provider and consumer of wind energy, and California is largest generator of solar energy... if this is your idea of stopping / preventing climate change.

www.cnn.com - State Farm again is seeking huge increases in home insurance rates in California - CNN, July 2, 2024

I, for one, don't find anything "amusing" about natural disasters and destructions they cause.
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#22 | Posted by CutiePie at 2024-07-09 05:25 AM | Reply

NO, Texas never had a major hurricane in early July in my 50 years of living here. But please, continue debasing yourself with each ignorant post you vomit.

#21 | POSTED BY E1G1 AT 2024-07-08 09:44 PM | FLAG:

This wasn't a major hurricane. It was Cat 1.

#23 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-07-09 08:53 AM | Reply

I see we've got the usual response from you caring and compassionate leftist-dogma klan freaks / 2 faced hypocrites/

FYI: according to the Houston Chronicle...a Hispanic grandmother who raised her grandkids herself was killed as well as a first responder on

his way to help people.

but don't let that get it he way of your hate mongering ,bigoted despicable character flaw.

I wouldn't recognize the trash without it.

#24 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-07-09 11:14 AM | Reply

#24
Your meds? Take them.

#25 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-07-09 11:19 AM | Reply

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Your meds? Take them.

#25 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

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if you insist.

--I'm high on life.

#26 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-07-09 11:21 AM | Reply

Your meds? Take them.

#25 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

dayum I"m out.

I'll tell you what I"ll do.

I'll get more from the white house when the Parkinson's expert is there.....except when he's not...WINK WINK.

#27 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-07-09 11:27 AM | Reply

I'll get more from the white house when the Parkinson's expert is there.....except when he's not...WINK WINK.

#27 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN

If Biden had Parkinson's, you'd see the shaking. See Michael J Fox.

This is a pretty boring conspiracy theory.

#28 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-07-09 11:28 AM | Reply

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