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New England coastal residents clean up after remnants of Hurricane Noel hits region

BOSTON (AP) - Several thousand coastal residents from Massachusetts to Maine faced a second night without power Sunday, and at least two house fires were indirectly blamed on the remnants of Hurricane Noel. The storm struck New England with just...

Dominican Republic: At least 20 killed in Tropical Storm Noel

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - Tropical Storm Noel lashed the Dominican Republic with heavy rains on Monday, causing flooding and mudslides that killed at least 20 people and left another 20 missing, officials said. Noel was expected to...

Mexico under tropical storm watch

Tropical Storm Karen weakens slightly in Atlantic

MIAMI (AP) - Parts of Mexico's Gulf Coast were under a storm watch early Thursday as a tropical depression drifted closer, while Tropical Storm Karen slightly weakened in the open Atlantic Ocean. The Mexican government on Wednesday issued a tropical...

Tropical depression could develop south of Brownsville

The 13th depression of the season formed late Tuesday, and could become Tropical Storm Lorenzo on Wednesday, forecasters said. A tropical storm watch may be required for a portion of the Gulf Coast of Mexico by Wednesday morning. At 5:15 p.m....

Part of the Raymondville Cotton Seed Oil Mill was destroyed as a Jeep from the Texas National Guard is parked nearby

Memories of Beulah’s wrath still haunt area residents

HARLINGEN — As President Lyndon Johnson gazed out of the helicopter, the Rio Grande Valley “looked like a lake,” former Harlingen Mayor Sam Lozano said. In the days after Hurricane Beulah slammed into the Brownsville coast, Johnson toured the flood-ravaged...

40 years later

Memories of Hurricane Beulah still vivid in minds of survivors

Any dedicated surfer will tell you the best time to surf the Gulf of Mexico is during hurricane season. In fact, the very best rides are caught when a hurricane is imminent, perhaps just hours before making landfall. It’s in these improbable...

Alphabetical Anomaly

Geography, Gulf of Mexico waters determine Valley’s probability of early storm strike

At the intersection of mythology and meteorology lies a South Texas weather pattern that has been observed for more than 50 years, earning it a Farmer’s Almanac-type authenticity in the collective imagination. Since 1953, when the National Hurricane...

Despite system improvements, Rio Grande Valley still faces troubles with flooding

There will never be another Hurricane Beulah. The Category 5 storm that ripped through Deep South Texas and Mexico 40 years ago this week caused such destruction that its name was retired from the National Hurricane Center’s list of named storms....

Holding down the fort

Tiptons protected dealership during storm

Maurice Tipton and his son, Maurice Jr., battled Hurricane Beulah together to protect their family investment. Tipton Sr. weathered the storm at his Central Boulevard home. When he thought the worst was over, he decided to check on his Ford dealership...

On Patrol

Retired police officer accessed the damage

In the days before Hurricane Beulah’s arrival in Brownsville in 1967, retired Brownsville Police Capt. Ruben Garcia was already making preparations. Garcia, 86, said that although a considerable amount of people in the city were working as farmworkers...

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