On hurricane watch...

[Bassic83]

So I get up this morning and in my usual perusal of the web, notice that my alarms are going off- Tropical Storm Edouard is apparently on-track to become a hurricane, and looks to make landfall early Tuesday in Galveston as a Cat1. It is following the same path and formation as Hurricane Alicia did. Should be here tomorrow morning! We might start feeling the effects later on today. I'm hoping it speeds up some, the last thing we need is for it to become a "grinder", a storm that sits on top of us and grinds away, dumping rain for days...

I live near the Gulf, in fact, I'm 11 miles inland, north of Galveston. I'm only about 5-6 miles from water if you go east from my house, Galveston Bay is to the east of me.

So I have to get gas today, I need 15 gallons for the generator. If the power goes out around here (as it does in major T-storms), I won't be online much, though I will have my MotoQ (slow) and my Crackberry 8830 (still slow, but not as bad), both are Verizon. I hope their network stays intact! We have a couple small A/C window units that the generator can handle if we get too hot, but we'll have to share the power with the fridge from time to time. We should be OK, though I might have to stay at work in lockdown. I work in a power plant. Should be an interesting next few days...wish us luck down here on the third coast!

[Bassic83]

http://www.khou.com/topstories/stori....10cb49ca.html

[Curtybob]

Good luck. After the last few years, a category 1 should go by like breakfast.

Seriously, those things are the reason I live where I do (not that it's much better). I lived close to Morgan City, LA when Hurricane Andrew blew through. My Mom packed up and dragged me and my brothers up here to Missouri, because my oldest brother lived here at the time. I was 16.

[wazzel]

I'm sure by the end of the day the news will have the general population of Houston and the surrounding area wound up tighter than a high G string.

[moomoocajoo]

Sounds like great fun to me

[wazzel]

Just rain and wind, more of a pain the butt than anything. After living on the gulf coast for 37 years most of which were in hurrican ally (SE Louisiana) it gets old

[bmc]

Originally Posted by Bassic83

So I get up this morning and in my usual perusal of the web, AFTER LOOKING FOR BRIAN'S EMAILS, notice that my alarms are going off- Tropical Storm Edouard is apparently on-track to become a hurricane, and looks to make landfall early Tuesday in Galveston as a Cat1. It is following the same path and formation as Hurricane Alicia did. Should be here tomorrow morning! We might start feeling the effects later on today. I'm hoping it speeds up some, the last thing we need is for it to become a "grinder", a storm that sits on top of us and grinds away, dumping rain for days...

I live near the Gulf, in fact, I'm 11 miles inland, north of Galveston. I'm only about 5-6 miles from water if you go east from my house, Galveston Bay is to the east of me.

So I have to get gas today, I need 15 gallons for the generator. If the power goes out around here (as it does in major T-storms), I won't be online much, though I will have my MotoQ (slow) and my Crackberry 8830 (still slow, but not as bad), both are Verizon. I hope their network stays intact! We have a couple small A/C window units that the generator can handle if we get too hot, but we'll have to share the power with the fridge from time to time. We should be OK, though I might have to stay at work in lockdown. I work in a power plant. Should be an interesting next few days...wish us luck down here on the third coast!

I edited it for you.

Keep your head down and send me some pics. Got it?

I'll be thinkin bout ya.

[Bassic83]

Originally Posted by bmc

I edited it for you.

Keep your head down and send me some pics. Got it?

I'll be thinkin bout ya.

Sure will! If we get any bad wx, I'll take some pics. Might have to for insurance porpoises anyway.

[Bassic83]

Originally Posted by wazzel

I'm sure by the end of the day the news will have the general population of Houston and the surrounding area wound up tighter than a high G string.

Listened to Lyda Ann Thomas talk on KTRH on the way in this morning, she said that "we do get wind and rain on our little island from time to time...but we are expecting power outages. Folks should have batteries and water available, and enough fuel to get through a few days without services."

I'm going to fill three 5 gal. cans with petrol after work (if they even let us out of the plant, might be on lockdown). I'm not "essential personnel", I am the next tier down, being IT. Talked to my Environmental Officer this morning, he has to be back at work at 1am this morning. He lives on the northwest side of Houston, so he has a drive. Most of the Operations guys are on ready alert, and some brought supplies. I think it'll be a flood event more than anything, our ground is pretty dry, which leads to runoff which leads to dumbasses trying to drive through chest-deep water, which leads to...a mild cleaning up of the gene pool!

[wazzel]

Have fun with that. What plant are you working?

[Bassic83]

Originally Posted by wazzel

Have fun with that. What plant are you working?

S.R. Bertron Electric Generating Station in La Porte, and also San Jacinto Steam CoGen in La Porte. I'm also covering for the tech over at Cedar Bayou, who is out with oral surgery for a week. So I have three sizable locations.

We have 965 MW capacity here at Bertron, and we're a peak plant, (gas), not baseload. So we usually only run during the day, on the peaks. But we can take up some slack if one of the baseload plants' units goes down (they're coal plants, or the nuke by Lake Jackson).

[peterbright]

Good luck. I've been through a few major ones & they can be a pain in the arse.

[davetakis]

eric, smoke a few sticks, drink a bottle of dalmore and good luck!!! keep low!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Bassic83]

I will smoke an Onyx tonite, maybe have a bit of Dalmore to help ease the nerves (medicinal purposes, y'know! ) and we should be fine.

[davetakis]

Originally Posted by Bassic83

I will smoke an Onyx tonite, maybe have a bit of Dalmore to help ease the nerves (medicinal purposes, y'know! ) and we should be fine.

medicinal purposes, yeah thats the ticket! i'll have some too, to calm my nerves, about being nervous about your nerver. yeah thats the ticket!!

[Benjamin Strange]

We're starting to get a bit of wind and rain from this one here in New Orleans - ain't no biggie.

[Rakie]

As soon as the little green light next to your name goes out, we will assume the worst and have a moment of silence.

And I call first dibs on your stuff.

Line:
Rakie !

[Bassic83]

Originally Posted by Rakie

As soon as the little green light next to your name goes out, we will assume the worst and have a moment of silence.

And I call first dibs on your stuff.

Line:
Rakie !

LMAO!

[machine gewehr]

I know storms coused (still do) horrible things,but I just wanted to be there with you and feel what its like.We don't have storms here.We don't need them though,quakes are giving us enough nightmares.

[Bassic83]

Not much of a storm. We've had lines of thunderstorms do worse. It is, however, a good rain event, we desperately needed it. If the rain amounts match forecasts, we'll end up a half-inch below where we should be on the year. Oh, and I get to work from home today!