Hurricane Dean May Miss Texas?

For several days now, folks have been preparing for Hurricane Dean to barrel through Texas like a drunken cowboy in an F-150 pickup truck. But the latest prognostications from the National Hurricane Center have Dean continuing on a straighter course that takes it over the Yucatan, then across the Gulf into northern Mexico. It looks like we'll be spared its brunt in Texas, unless it slices right after it hits the Mayan Riviera.

It can still do a lot of damage, with plenty parts of South Texas already soaked with this year's much-higher-than-average rains. And, of course, the damage it inflicts on Mexican will also place demands on Texans and Texas, notwithstanding the Nativists' idea that Mexico is another planet.

For your graphical enjoyment: