If I was a WWII British or German veteran who had served in North Africa, last night/early this morning, sure would have been something to remind me of my service; at El Alamein!

What I am talking about is, the hellacious thunderstorms that moved through my area all night long. The flashes of lightning resembled the flashes from British artillery pieces (that I have seen numerous times in newsreels), during the opening barrages at El Alamein. The BOOMS of thunder must have also echoed the booms of shells exploding from said opening artillery barrage.

Wicked Texas Storms.

Most of you probably know that we had a bad threat of a Cat 5 Hurricane (Dean) that could have easily beared down on us (and were still not fully cleared from that threat) almost anything can happen in the next few days. Instead, this hurricane is supposedly going to drop to about a Cat 2 hurricane and hit somewhere deep in the Mexican Coast.

As of now, it looks like were not going to see anything in my area except for thunderstorms (thankfully) and I am wishing the folks who are in this storms path, all the best.

Anyway, last nights thunderstorms were totally awsome to watch. They had my Cats terrified and both cats tried to share the same space between my feet.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

it's a Cat 1 right now but who knows if it will head due west like they say, it will peter out but if it has enough wumpf left it could make a pretty interesting time up the pacific coast if God directs it so

Hi E, that's good to know. The last word I had on it was last night's 10PM news report. At that time, it was a Cat 5, and was still hrs away from making landfall and was expected to lose most of it's steam, until it gets back into the HOT waters of the Gulf of Mexico. I think the current temp of the waters off our beaches is around 87 "F" That's pretty darn hot as far as water temps go.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.