Waco area under wind advisory
The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory until 6 pm for all of North Texas, including Waco and surrounding counties. Winds from the north to northwest of 25 to 30 mph are expected, with stronger gusts during daylight hours.
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Gustav holds steady at Category 3
GUSTAV
The news is better for New Orleans, although I hesitate to pronounce anything like an all-clear. Hurricane Gustav has strengthened only slightly and is forecast to be a “mere” major hurricane, a Category Three, instead of a monster Category Four, when it strikes central Louisiana tomorrow.
This is important because the levees are designed to withstand Category Three winds, up to 130 mph, but not up-to-155-mph Cat Four winds. Further, the area of even Category One hurricane-force winds around the center is not expected to quite reach New Orleans.
I’m still worried. Three years ago I wrote a headline for the Trib front page about New Orleans dodging a bullet — then found out, half an hour after I got home, that the levees had broken…
There’s another local angle, by the way: a fairly good chance the remains of Gustav will be paying us a visit midweek, though Waco isn’t expected to get as much rain from it as points farther east.
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