Hurricane Dolly coming to the Texas Coast!

National Weather Service: 30% chance of category 3 hurricane

A Quick update, Chris was called at home tonight 10pm (Monday) and the Governor has issued the military on alert to help with flooding and evacuations. By tomorrow we should have a better idea of the category I would think of the hurricane and by tomorrow Tropical Storm Dolly should be upgraded to a Hurricane. Landfall is looking more and more like Brownsville and Mexico with San Antonio possibly seeing winds of up to 40 miles an hour and heavy rain. Chris is on stand by from here on out till its over. My kids are freaked out. Home Depot and Lowe's etc... are selling out of water and plywood and supplies. Keep this blog updated and if we lose power all I can say is just sit tight because that is what we will be doing. I am going tomorrow to buy tons of candles and water myself in case of a power outage.


(Hurricane watch issued for parts of Texas, Mexico)

MIAMI (AP) — A hurricane watch was issued for parts of the Texas and Mexico coasts Monday as Tropical Storm Dolly entered the Gulf of Mexico.
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said the watch in Texas extended from Brownsville to Port O'Connor. The government of Mexico also issued a hurricane watch from Rio San Fernando northward to the U.S. border.
At 11 a.m. EDT, the center of the storm was about 55 miles north-northeast of Progreso, Mexico. Maximum sustained winds were near 50 mph.
A tropical storm watch was also in effect on the Texas coast from north of Port O'Connor to San Luis Pass and from La Pesca, Mexico, northward to Rio San Fernando.
Dolly is moving toward the west-northwest near 18 mph.
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Cristobal was moving northeast over the Atlantic after bringing weekend rain to the Carolinas. At 11 a.m. EDT, it was located about 190 miles east-northeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., and about 725 miles southwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia, with maximum sustained winds near 65 mph.

(picture's of Hurricane Dolly headed toward Texas coast and another article posted a hour ago below)

Well, Here we go!!!!Our first offical soon to be named "HURRICANE" is headed our way! Our news is alerting us and tracking the direction of Hurricane Dolly. What the news storm tracker is thinking right now is that it will hit around the Brownsville area on the coast of Texas. Brownsville is just down the road from Corpus Christi. The beach's are pure white sands and clear blue water and were we wanted to go this summer but maybe next year. Anyway, We are bracing for it to hit in what the news says about 48 hours or less before it hits land. We are inland in San Antonio by about 3 hours from where its suppose to hit but we will I am sure get lots of rain and wind from it. So pray for those down on the coast and Mexico who will be getting the brunt of the storm. I have included below a new posting from about a hour ago. This is why I never wanted to move to Florida mind you but at least we are not on the coast.

Tropical Storm Dolly threatens to grow into hurricane
1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Tropical Storm Dolly churned over the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, threatening to grow into a hurricane within 36 hours as it headed toward the Mexico-Texas border, the US National Hurricane Center said.
The governments of Texas and Mexico issued a hurricane watch for coastal areas, meaning they could be struck by hurricane-force conditions within 36 hours, the Miami-based center said.
Dolly was packing 85-kilometer-per hour (50 miles per hour) winds after emerging from Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. The eye of the storm was about 220 kilometers (130 miles) north of the peninsula, moving west-northwest at 30 kilometers per hour (18 miles per hour).
The storm was expected to produce two to four inches (five to 10 centimeters) of rain accumulation in northern Yucatan with isolated maximum amounts of up to six inches (15 centimeter), the center said.
"Gradual strengthening is forecast ... Dolly is forecast to become a hurricane within the next day or two before reaching the western Gulf of Mexico coast," the center said in its latest bulletin issued at 4:00 pm (2100 GMT