Hurricane Alex

NOAA/NHC ^ | 29 June 2010 | NOAA/NHC

[NautiNurse]

Hurricane Alex is taking aim at the Texas/Mexico border in the Western Gulf of Mexico. The official NHC forecast calls for Alex to make landfall just south of Texas on Wednesday night. Tropical storm force winds extend 140 miles from the center of the system. Alex is expected to produce total rainfall accumulations of 6 to 12 inches over portions of northeastern Mexico and southern Texas...with isolated maximum amounts of 20 inches.

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Local Weather:

NWS Local Weather Statements Brownsville TX & Corpus Christi TX
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Local News:

Island Breeze News, So. Padre Island
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KRGV Channel 5 News Rio Grande Valley
KVEO Channel 23 Rio Grande Valley News
KIII TV Corpus Christi

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[WestCoastGal]

How’s everything down there ST?

We have a big blob coming our way this morning - had some ugly stuff spawned by Alex late yesterday, knocked out electric. Although, it doesn’t take much to take that down where I live.

I’m not real crazy about all this rain as the lawn will grow again which means it needs to be mowed again!!

[SouthTexas]

Still raining, I think only one more limb down this morning. Never had the flooding rains with this storms, yet anyway. Remember one several years back where the rains didn’t come until a week after the storm was long gone.

[SouthTexas]

Rain totals so far and it hasn't stopped.

[NautiNurse]

Do you think all the rain will flush clean the Rio Grande River?

[mstar]

Hubby and I left for Denver where he had to work. Checking in for an update. Had a alert on my cell for flash floods in the greater Houston area. I hope we are not looking at a rain/flood Allison type complication. Will keep checking in. We will be returning to Houston Sunday. I think the forecast is for the rain to have moved on.

Hope all of you are OK.

[SouthTexas]

I really needs to be further up river, but it sure will help. Will slow border crossings for a day or two also. ;)

[lainie]

My daughter says it’s been raining quite a lot in Ft. Worth. Guess it’s even more for you.

[potlatch]

Thanks for your reply SouthTexas. I haven’t been online for a few days. Looks like Padre did OK. Brownsville had flooding.

My daughter in Harlingen had a huge Palm tree fall over. I had some wind and over 5 inches of rain.

Sadly, two Mexicans were killed - that I know of.