[nwctwx]

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 200 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2008

FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...

1. A SURFACE TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE ACCOMPANIED BY CLOUDINESS AND SHOWERS HAS MOVED INTO THE NORTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO. LITTLE MOTION IS ANTICIPATED TODAY OR SUNDAY...AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS APPEAR TO BE FAVORABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT DURING THE NEXT DAY OR TWO. IF NECESSARY...A RECONNAISSANCE PLANE WILL INVESTIGATE THE AREA ON SUNDAY.

[hiredhand]

Are you watching this?!

[PeteB570]

Just pinging on for the ride.

We’ll see where they all go.

[eastforker]

Just in time for the 25th anniversary of Alicia, almost the same origin also.

[Dog Gone]

Well, crap. We need some relief from this heat, but I don’t want the antidote to be worse.

[DrewsMum]

Ok, Freepers, I need some help/advice re: hurricane...

I am signed up to go to an expensive seminar for my job tomorrow at a Bush Intercontinental Hotel (along with several other people I work with....)

I live in La Porte and the seminar is from 9-5, we are to leave southeast houston at 7:30 in the morning...

The company putting on the seminar is from Canada so they will not cancel seminar cause they don’t see the big deal about a “small” hurricane/tropical storm

Problem is I don’t want to leave home tomorrow and travel in wind/rain, leaving my husband and child at home and perhaps get stuck on the other side of houston if the city loses power....

Several of the people I work with don’t have a problem going, becuase they are from Michigan and Wisconsin and other non-hurricane areas...I am not panicking but someone help me to know what to do. Even Mayor White announced earlier to please stay home and leave roads clear for emergency vehicles...

What do I do??