Dolly Dirt

With Hurricane Dolly now grinding into South Texas, this state has the distinction of being the sole recipient of hurricanes the past two years. We've had three the past three.
Forecasters years ago said the meteorological puppet masters could make us the new Florida, and perhaps they were right, although Dolly and Humberto last year weren't exactly Rita, Katrina, Wilma or Andrew.
I've posted a few web-related stuff to check when a storm rumbles into the Gulf, but I'll post it again today.
Here is a cam in Surfside to check out to see how big the waves are:
http://www.netsurfing.com/surfcam/index_orig.shtml
If you're catching this today, note how the water is up under a house over there to the left. Usually, you can see beach.
Another interesting thing to check out are the buoys bobbing around out there:
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
Good ol' buoy No. 42035 shows what the waves are like just off the Southeast Texas coast. As of 9:40 today, they were 8.5 feet, meaning that if you were at the bottom of one, you'd see 17-foot-tall walls of water smashing down upon you.
Buoy No. 42020 is a lot closer to Dolly, and the waves are 22.3 feet, meaning almost 45 feet from bottom to top!
That poor buoy is getting one heck of a ride right now.