It's Hurricane Ernesto now - heading for Mexico

[malaise]

Stay safe DUers


http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at201205.html

[benld74]

1. OK. WHen will gasoline prices rise because of Ernie right here?

[panader0]

2. Be safe sister.......

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. I admit to wishing it on Texas.

Not too big, yet full of delicious water to recharge the aquifers.

[redroof]

4. I hope it stays down there!

n/t

[dipsydoodle]

5. Storm Ernesto Moves Across Coast of Mexico’s Campeche

Tropical Storm Ernesto was forecast to become a hurricane as it picked up speed on its westward path over the southern part of the Bay of Campeche, Mexico’s oil- production hub.

Ernesto’s top winds were 70 miles (112 kilometers) per hour, up from 65 mph earlier, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said in an advisory at 1 a.m. central time today. A Category 1 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale starts at 74 mph. The storm’s center was 30 miles north northeast of Paraiso, Mexico, and it was traveling west at 16 mph. Tropical storm-strength winds of 39 mph or more extend 140 miles from its core.

“Some additional strengthening is expected and Ernesto is forecast to become a hurricane before making landfall,” the center said in the advisory .“The center of Ernesto will move across the extreme southern Bay of Campeche and make landfall,” later today in the area from Veracruz to Chilitepec, it said.

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Ernesto moved ashore on the Yucatan Peninsula yesterday as a Category 1 hurricane before weakening to a tropical storm, with winds of 70 mph.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-08/ernest-weakens-on-path-over-mexico-s-yucatan-to-bay.html

[Berlum]

6. Wow - right over the Temple of Ku'kulkan. Totally 2012.

I'm just sayin...

[malaise]

7. LOL

[Berlum]

8. UPDATE: Tropical Storm Ernesto hits Gulf coast, headed inland into Mexico with heavy rains

N.B. - Vercruz is where Hernan' Cortez (R) came ashore in 1519 and began his brutal imperialistic invasion of Turtle Island with its campaigns of rape and genocide.

VERACRUZ, Mexico — Tropical Storm Ernesto drenched Mexico’s southern Gulf coast Thursday and was expected to head inland, as authorities in the flood-prone region prepared shelters, army troops and rescue personnel...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/tropical-storm-ernesto-moves-into-gulf-of-mexico-and-picks-up-power-as-heads-for-new-landfall/2012/08/08/ebaec53a-e1b9-11e1-89f7-76e23a982d06_story.html