TS/Hurricane Claudette

[TexasStooge]

OK, I know that TS/Hurricane Claudette has developed, hit the TX coast & dissipated, but what prediction did you make on what direction it was moving before it made landfall?

Me, I thought it was heading Northwest to the Houston/Galveston area and curve a little Northward to the DFW area, despite the fact that my hometown is way overdue for rain.

[GalvestonDuck]

I posted this in a Yahoo trivia group. Jeff (Jeffy) is a buddy of mine in Bama. Can't say that I actually knew for sure, but this was my uneducated guess from what I learned for you guys.

From: "TX" <txbardtobe@a...>
Date: Tue Jul 8, 2003 10:20 pm
Subject: Good Lawdy, It's Claudy


Claudette, this is my buddy Jeffy...Jeffy, meet Tropical Storm
Claudette.

http://www.weather.com/maps/news/atlsto ... large.html

Actually, I think you won't have to worry about her. Freeport/Corpus
Christi, TX might face her eye to cyclonic eye if what I've read in
discussions about the models and stuff plays out. It's still early
though and she's way out there.

So I was close from the start, but still too uncertain and not knowledgable to say for sure. I was ready nevertheless.

[opera ghost]

OK, I know that TS/Hurricane Claudette has developed, hit the TX coast & dissipated, but what prediction did you make on what direction it was moving before it made landfall?

Me, I thought it was heading Northwest to the Houston/Galveston area and curve a little Northward to the DFW area, despite the fact that my hometown is way overdue for rain.

I didn't make any prediction. I found out about Claudette when she made national news- you see I was on my honeymoon

But my husband remembers it fondly. He pointed at the TV said "There's something in the gulf...."

And I spent the next hour hopping around the hotel room alternativly begging and pleading for it to stall (it was forcast at one point to make landfal Saturday) for JUST ONE DAY so I could be hone in time to meet her...

And then she went south. Fickle. Silly Fickle Claudette.

You know I've never been in a hurricane in my 12 years in Houston? Even my house wound up high and dry after every mega flood.... no matter where in Houston I lived! I FINALLY see a weak hurricane heading towards Houston- like I'd been wishing for for years....

And she was scheduled to land while I was in New York on my honeymoon.

It was depressing.

As soon as I got home the fickle thing turned and went south.

Mocking me.

I swear- all of the hurricanes are MOCKING ME!