Business at reopened restaurants was humming, grocery store parking lots were packed and residents of south Texas were venturing out on the newly dry roads again as the remnants of Hurricane Dolly moved well away from the Rio Grande Valley.
South Texas starts cleanup after Hurricane Dolly
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Business at reopened restaurants was humming, grocery store parking lots were packed and residents of south Texas were venturing out on the newly dry roads again as the remnants of Hurricane Dolly moved well away from the Rio Grande Valley.
A group of senior citizens received comforting news this week during a meeting of TRIAD.
Hurricane Dolly slammed ashore and then loitered over deep south Texas as a tropical storm, dumping as much as a foot of rain in places and ripping roofs off buildings with 100 mph winds.
Rain started to fall along the Gulf Coast as Hurricane Dolly - upgraded in force from a tropical storm - closed in on towns straddling the Texas-Mexico border.
Residents along the Texas-Mexico border kept a watchful eye on Tropical Storm Dolly on Monday, stocking up on plywood, generators and flashlights as forecasters predicted the storm would strengthen into a hurricane later this week and make landfall.
Tropical Storm Cristobal headed for the open Atlantic late Sunday as forecasters discontinued tropical storm warnings along the Carolinas.
Tropical Storm Cristobal, the first system to menace the Southeast seaboard this hurricane season, strengthened slightly off the North Carolina coast Sunday, and was expected to dump several inches of rain in some areas of the drought-stricken state.
When hurricanes and tropical storms threaten the U.S., a self-described "weather geek" will let the nation know what the dangers are.
Substantially improving the accuracy of hurricane intensity predictions could take years and tens of millions of dollars, the National Hurricane Center's director said Tuesday.
The thought of spending hours on roadways in stop-and-go traffic probably doesn't appeal to most South Mississippi residents.
Since Jan. 1, FEMA has moved 710 Mississippi Coast households from potentially toxic trailers to hotel rooms where they receive three catered meals each day.
State emergency officials are encouraging people to begin preparing now for hurricane season and not wait until a storm threatens.
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