Friday, July 29, 2011

Texas looking forward to storm: News24: World: News

San Antonio - As much of Texas suffers through one of its worst droughts, many rain-starved Texans are doing something they thought they would never do, looking forward to the arrival of a tropical storm.

"Someone's going to get it. We hope that it's us," said Danielle Hale, emergency management director in Corpus Christi, right in the middle of the area where Tropical Storm Don is expected to come ashore on Friday night.

Parts of Texas are 38cm short of their average rainfall for this time of year. Don's expected 13-18cm of rain and the fact the storm was not seen bringing damaging winds or a destructive surge, make it a perfect storm for a state sick of water rationing, brown lawns and dying crops, Hale said

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