Red Cross To Help With Belen Storm Damage KOAT -23 hours ago The Red Cross is going down to help Wednesday, but they need storm victims to get in touch with them. The Red Cross said they can get storm victims the ...

SavATree Announces: How to Prepare Your Trees for Hurricane Season MarketWatch -Aug 19, 2008 "By knowing your level of vulnerability to storm damage and which preventative actions to take, you can reduce the effects of a hurricane disaster to your ...

 NOAA’s 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook update indicates an 85% probability of an above-normal hurricane season, a 10% chance of a near-normal season, and a 5% chance of a below-normal season. See NOAA definitions of above-, near-, and below-normal seasons. The Atlantic hurricane region includes the North Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico. The conducive atmospheric and oceanic conditions predicted in our May outlook are now in place over the tropical Atlantic. These conditions, combined with strong early-season activity, yield increased confidence that the 2008 season will be above normal. We expect 2008 to be the tenth above-normal season since the current active hurricane era began in 1995. Although seasons with similar conditions to those now in place and seasons with similar early-season activity have generally been above-normal, they have featured a wide range of activity. Allowing for uncertainties, we estimate a 67% probability for each of the following seasonal (June-November) ranges, all of which are above average: 14-18 named storms, 7-10 Hurricanes, 3-6 Major Hurricanes, An ACE range 140%-230% of the median .... more

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  Hurricane Dolly   AT 1:00 PM CDT The center of Hurricane Dolly was estimated near  Latitude 26.3 Longitude 97.2 or about 35 miles NE of Brownsville.    For track, news and other info visit the Dolly Page. The NHC reports that Hurricane force winds extend out for 25 miles. Click here to see a radius based on the last position.  Click here to see the TS Winds, they extend out 140 miles. Google Earth Image with Dolly at Landfall 1:00 PM CDT 7/23  The FFW area is a flash flood warning area.