But...c'mon, people...
Texan: Humberto 'snuck up on us'
"The intensity surprised everybody, especially the amount of rain and wind," [Galveston Deputy] Cavness said.
"It snuck up on us, to be honest with you. It wasn't something we were expecting."
Little note to my new state - if you're dumber than Florida residents, it doesn't say good things about you.
Snuck up on you? For the love of God, people, its' not a volcano, it's a freakin' hurricane. You might not have expected landfall at a particular point, you might not have expected a particular amount of rain, but a miles-wide tropical weather system that's been on the news for days should not come as a surprise to anyone who lives on the Gulf Coast.
That's not exactly something that one can fail to notice if one watches the weather. And I'm not telling anybody what to do, but perhaps, if it's September and you live on the Gulf, watching the weather might not be a bad idea.
Yahoos. Anyway...here's the link to the "current systems" page at the National Hurricane Center. We ridicule, but we educate.
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