Hurricane Map
The first hurricane of the 2010 season made land fall in a small town in Mexico. The category two hurricane caused land slides and flooding in Mexico, while in Texas there was flooding and isolated tornadoes.
I am in San Antonio and we got the outer bands of the rain, with some strong gust of winds at times. The storm was not what the citizens pre-paired for in south Texas. South Padre, a island just of the main land of Brownsville, thought the north end of the storm was going to cause more damage. The storm cause minimal damage in the area, with flooding, a few downed trees, and a few road closers.
This is the start of a hurricane season that is predicted to be more active, than past years. This storm was also caused damage as far away as Alabama, with the BP oil spill. The storm caused large waves to move the oil closer to the coast of many more states.
If another hurricane comes in a similar path, but just go more north, the oil spill will cause more damage than the storm will ever do. We have to pre-pair the gulf for more storms, and think of a plan of how to mange to the oil when an if a storm comes.