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Show status for the first time in more than a decade. at the island's KOA recreational vehicle park. Hopefully it .' won't be too bad. SOUTH PADRE ISLAND!, But Mike and Rhonda Gdee Texas South Texas braced visiting South ftdre Island In Wednesday for Tropical Storm their recreational vehicle, de-- , cided not to take any chances. Erin to bring torrential down-pouto a state that already We live in Lufkin and we has had one of its rainiest sum- went through Rita two ; .ft mers on record ago, Rhonda Cates As the storm's outermost .. recalling the 2005 hurricane .V bands of rain touched the Tex- that slammed into East Texas) Jj as coast early afternoon, hom- jammed highway traffic and :,; ' eowners had already started sent evacuees pouring into her iy heading to hardware stares in small city. "T J a? ; "V ' the Rio Grande Valley for supWe're still cleaning up trees .".V from that,' she said. I thought, plies to board up their houses. They know the drill; they're it may not be bad here, but a ; ;V ' familiar with it said Riften may flood ialong the way in 'T ' . Dimas, assistant store manager Corpus. It's getting home that ' at a Home Depot in Harlingen. were worried about.' Out in the Gulf, Shell Oil Got .Gov, Rick Perry ordered " t''1'evacuated 188 people from offemergency vehicles and 'shore facilities in the storms including National Guard troops, to the Harlingen path. r and Corpus Christi areas. Erin formed late Tuesday t Because storms have satuas the fifth depression of the rated much of our state this ' Atlantic hurriouie season and summer, many communities ;. was upgraded to a tropical in this storm's projected path storm Wednesday when its maximum sustained speed are at high risk of dangerous flash flooding, Perry said in a hit 40 mph, the National Hup. t W 4 ricane Center said. The threshstatement.' t 4 - IN. i JK . A Cameron County Judge ". .. old for tropical storm status is Carlos Cascos, the tap elected '39 mph. official for the states southern-mo- st At 4 pm. EOT, the storm ' This sateflita hnaga thawt Tropical Storm Erin in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday at 11:15 : was residents centered 195 miles east v. urged am. ED1V county, ; ' to evacuate trailers and mobile of Brownsville and about 215 miles Bouth of Galveston, ac- homes on South Padre Island, Texas coast on Thursday, the Texas coast, the hurricane cencoast from San Luis Pun, but he said that the storm apr ; cording toShe National Hup. ' about 55 miles southwest of center said. '. ter said. ricane Center in Miami Its peared to have veered north-- . ' ward and that few vacationers V . , A series of storms this sumErin was hkely too dose Houston, southward to the top wind speed remained at 40 . mer poured record rainfall, to land to gain enough wind border. The tropical storm mph.'appeared nervous enough to across Texas and parts of leave v Erin was moving toward the speed to become a hurricane, watch for northern Mexico Oklahoma and Kansas, with About the only thing were at around 13. with sustained wind of at lent was canceled. A tropical1 ... 74 mph, said National Weather storm watch means that tropi- one July storm dropping 17 doing is picking things up off ! mph and was expect ed to concal storm conditions are pos--.. inches of rain in 24 homy." the ground so they dont blow tinue following that trade for tService forecaster Tony Ab- sibie within 36 hours. bott in Brownsville. at least 24 horns. If it doesn't around, said Caroline Doug- -. Flooding was widespread : across all three states. It Three to 8 inches Of rain ' las, a Kentucky residentwho change, course, it could be cen- ' A tropical storm warning was possible along the middle with tier husband Delbert tered near the lower or middle was posted for the Texas brought Texas out of drought lynn Brezosky the ASSOClATtO PKSS At least.16 deaths have been blamed on flooding since mid- - :. . June.'- - .. Flossie kxt its hurricane status as its maximum sustained ' wind dropped below 74 mph. .' By 11 am. EDT, the stonn's ; top sustained wind was down to 50 mph and it was expected to continue weakening. The storm was about 270 miles south of Honolulu, moving ": west at about 15 mph. Elsewhere, Tropical Storm Dean strengthened but was far out in the Atlantic. It was movat about ing 22 mph At 5 pm EDT, the storm was centered about 915 miles east of the Lesser Antilles in' : the Caribbean; Its top su wind speed had reached 65 , mph, up from 45 mph Tuesday. Forecasters said it could become a hurricane by Friday. Hurricane specialists expect this year's Atlantic hurricane season June 1 to Nov. 30 to be busier than average, with as many as IS tropical sterna, nine of them strength-- , ening into hurricanes. Ten tropical storms developed in the Atlantic last year, but only two made landfaQ in the United States. . . . , J V7: Y . . ' : : . . . . . . y st . Associated Press writer Audrey McAvoy in South Point, Hawaii, contributed to this report. . ; . GESIG Acoustic 12 Guitar FuU'-iiz- o ; CSS GTGBE Acouslle -- . , per-sonn- el, . , . ': j , In the Pacific, Flossie Was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm after side-swiping Hawaii's Big Island with Iks rain and wind than . rs , . Acoustic Guttar- Romney: Manager of blind trust is sorting out conflicts Mandolin - between investments, policy care.compaiiy tint conducts , research on enAryonic stem cells. The bliixt.tiurt of ATLANTA--- - Republican Romneys wife, of which Mat presidential hopeful Mitt Rom- is also a trustee, invests in a ney said Wednesday that the " fund that has stock in Millipore Corp., which provides stem cell manager of his blind trust is lines to researcher sorting out conflicts between " his investments and his policy. Romney qxikesnian Kevin . Madden said Matts review .of .! the trust's beddings are a com . Romney faced questions about his wealth as contents of tinuing process and stressed .' his blind trust, made public this , that Romney himself cannot influence Matts decisions. week, showed investments in The trustee has said he y companies that perform work with embryonic stem cdls and would continue to divest the ' foreign energy firms that have trust of securities or invest- ments tothe best of his ability business ties to Iran. ' in a manner consistent with the Romney, in courting con-- : servatives, has opposed most ; - governor's public statements and policy pronouncements,'!' research. embryonic stem-ce-ll ' ' ' ' Madden saw!' He also has called for governnot know He said he did ment pension systems to divest what Matt specifically intended themselves of stock in compato do about the trust's stock in .. nies linked to Iran. Novo Nordisk or China Mro-- . The trustee of the blind ' trust has said pubiidy that y leum.' On Vs Web site, Novo Norhe win endeavor to make my disk saysit only uses tarnian jf investments Conform to my positions and I have confidence embryonic stem cells when that he win do that wen," Rom- it is not anticipated that the ..: ..same scientific results can be ' ney told reporters during a obtained by the use of adult campaign stop in Georgia! The trustee for the Romney - stem cells. It also stalest hat it only , assets, R. Bradford Mak, said : this week he has managed the : ; works with stem cells from blind trustwithout any direc--' spare embryos derived from fertilization efforts, a . tion from Romney. But he said he has tried to seU any stock position that is consistent with the stance Romney developed in companies whose activities as governor of Massachusetts. . conflict with Romneys public But some social conservastands.' To that end. Malt said, he . tives oppose any form of the ; sold shores of stock jaFrench research, arguing it is destroy-.- .. and Italian energy companies . ing yiabie embryos. Romney . said was his education on that had business ties to Iran. 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