Denton Weather

Officals opened emergency operations centers in Houston, moved inmates to prisons farther inland and passed out sandbags along portions of the Texas coast as Hurricane Dean barreled toward the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Dean was several days away and its path was still uncertain, but officials weren't taking any chances. Even if the hurricane continues a steady westward course toward Mexico, parts of the already saturated state could be flooded by the storm's outer bands.
As of 7 a.m. CDT Monday, Dean was about 440 miles east of Belize City and was traveling west at about 20 mph, the National Hurricane Center said.
The threat from Dean and its torrential rainfall came as parts of Texas were still cleaning up from the flooding caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Erin.