Swanky Conservative

Look for the run on canned food, bottled water, and gas cans to start by 5:00 p.m. tonight here in Austin. The official forecast track for tropical storm Dolly is now pointing at Brownsville.

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Holy cyclonic disturbances, Batman. Felix sure grew fast! What was this, a 24-hour jump from category 1 to 5?

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Texas can most likely breath easy. Hurricane Dean, which is now officially a category 5 storm, should hit the Yucatan peninsula tomorrow, followed by a stint in the Bay of Campeche before hitting the Mexican mainland Wednesday.

Jeff Masters, Brendan Loy, and Eric Berger all have more on the storm.

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Hurricane Dean is a Category 4 storm with winds maxing out around 150 miles per hour. The storm is just south of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The pressure has dropped 10 millibars, indicating an increase in strength soon to come.
All the models show Jamaica still in the track, though due to a [...]

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Hurricane Dean’s getting stronger over the warm Caribbean waters. It’s up to Category 4, now.
…DEAN REACHES CATEGORY FOUR STRENGTH AS ITS CENTER PASSES SOUTH OF
THE VIRGIN ISLANDS…

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Not content to wait around (*cough*Blanco,*cough*Nagin*)Governor Rick Perry declared Hurricane Dean an imminent threat to Texas and is activating emergency resources:

250 Texas Military Forces (TMF) command personnel to support the
potential activation and deployment of up to 10,000 TMF soldiers,
if necessary
Texas Task Force 1 in Bryan/College Station - 300 personnel
Texas Task Force 2 in Dallas - [...]

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Update: The National Hurricane Center says Dean is now a Category 3 storm with 125 mph winds.
Brendan Loy has the complete run-down on the current state of Hurricane Dean. Seems the NOAA flight last night didn’t help solidify the forecast track. What is known is that Jamaica is in the path of a growing [...]

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My sister-in-law is in school on the island of St. Kitts so we’re watching Hurricane Dean somewhat closely. So far the only real effects are that tests are being delayed a few weeks and it’s windy. The latest tracking map from the National Hurricane Center shows the eye of Dean passing south of St. Kitts.

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Tropical Depression 5 is now Tropical Storm Erin. In my opinion, Erin’s little more than a blustery storm. She won’t get much bigger, her winds aren’t expected to be much higher than 50 miles per hour when she touches land, and the rainfall amounts aren’t expected to get above 3 to 4 inches.

Nevertheless, Texas [...]

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You can’t make this stuff up. Tropical Storm Dean has formed in the Atlantic Ocean.

AT 1100 AM AST…1500Z…THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM DEAN WAS
LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 11.7 NORTH…LONGITUDE 39.4 WEST OR ABOUT 1030
MILES…1660 KM…WEST OF THE SOUTHERNMOST CAPE VERDE ISLANDS AND
ABOUT 1490 MILES…2400 KM…EAST OF THE LESSER ANTILLES.
DEAN IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 23 [...]

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The Mainstream Media is starting to turn on itself over the fake (but accurate?) reporting that came out of Hurricane Katrina’s effects on New Orleans. Some of the media is celebrating itself in promo spots run on television pontificating how “America turned to -insert media name here- for news during Katrina’s devastating impact.” Who’s scoring [...]

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