Posted on 06/29/2010 7:48:29 PM PDT by 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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Going to Mexico, thank goodness. Thanks for the ping.
I don’t even watch them anymore since I’ve found the many links online with the REAL data. :)
A dirt track slide?
Will still be very wet for the next few days but that’s what I thought early on.
It’s very bad,Ron,,,
The south end of Louisiana is flat for the most part,,,
Only a few sandy beaches,,,
Mostly marshland,,,
This or any bad storm will push the oil into the marsh where
you can’t even walk,,,
Too thick to go by boat,,,
Area too large to cover with choppers,,,
It just ain’t no way to clean it up once it gets into the
marsh...
ROFLOL...don't move if you think it was bad there!
Here in West Texas, we PRAY for blown out storms, we need the water. Looks like this one is headed west, might inconvenience the Cartels for a day or two.
We might get lucky and see some rain, but I’m putting long odds on it.
This is gonna get me in so much trouble w/my Texas friends but....
I really wish if Alex HAS to come to texas that it would gather all the oil out of the gulf and dump it in Galveston....I mean if it has to go SOMEWHERE, that’s the best place....because no one would no the difference, it’s such a crap hole down there....the nastiest beach I have ever scene and it’s a pitiful shame, b/c that island could be a vacationer’s paradise if it were taken care of...ugh!
Hard to call it a cleanup operation since there’s no sign of that gusher stopping in the foreseeable future. But we’ll take whatever we can get, certainly.
No there is no way to clean it up and have you seen the video of the boiling water coming on to shore?
Yup,,,saw a little of it,,,
I think that was foam from the wave action,,,
Ain’t sure,,,
It sure didn’t look rite,,,
I’ve gotta wonder if that’s something to do with all that
krap that they sprayed on the water ?...
Weird patterns in that loop. Thanks.
I found the link
http://www.rsairphoto.com/gallery.php?gal=29
//crap sprayed on the water//
Probably does have something to do with it, but whether it does or it dont you know not much can live through that.
‘No there is no way to clean it up and have you seen the video of the boiling water coming on to shore?’
I guarantee that in 100,000 years you will be unable to tell the lowland had ever been oil soaked.
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