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Hurricane Rita

#42
I talked to my mom this morning...she was getting ready to stay(and my dad who is supposed to leave on a business trip on friday) said he'd stay with her if she wasn't forced to evacuate. And my aunts name is Rita(moms sister). How...ironic? I've been worried sick about whats going to happen all day and now I'm slightly more worried.
 
#43
heroincredible said:
I talked to my mom this morning...she was getting ready to stay(and my dad who is supposed to leave on a business trip on friday) said he'd stay with her if she wasn't forced to evacuate. And my aunts name is Rita(moms sister). How...ironic? I've been worried sick about whats going to happen all day and now I'm slightly more worried.
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Get them to leave!
 
#45
+10 million to all the suggestions to get out if you're in the way. I lived in Houston for ~10 years and saw a lot of floods during that time (no hurricanes, thank God). Any Houstonians remember the tropical storm a couple years back that almost took out the medical center? Houston is well above sea level (unlike New Orleans, which is actually a bit below), but it WAS a swamp before it was a city.

I'm worried about what this will do to gas prices if it hits the refineries. But I'm more worried about having the nation's 4th-largest city evacuated/destroyed. Frankly, I'm not sure that we have the resources to help 4 million+ people relocate, especially after dealing with Katrina. What's more, I have no idea what our economy will do when all that business just shuts down. Not sure on the numbers, but I know that a TON of US imports/exports go through the ship channel. With New Orleans suffering from Rita, that shuts down basically all of the ports in the Gulf, two of our biggest ports for sure.

Like I said, it's the 4th-largest city in the nation. Can you imagine all of that economic activity disappearing overnight? I can't...I don't want to.

Godspeed to everyone in the path of Rita, and everyone recovering from Katrina. My parents are coming to stay with me for a few days (they live just north of Beaumont), along with my brother, who lives in Houston, and my aunt, who was staying with my parents in the wake of Katrina. It's like she's having to re-relocate. :eek:


-Jono
 
#47
Well now the projections no longer show it going directly over Waco. That doesn't help the people in east Texas though. Right now the projection looks like it might follow the path Alicia took in the 80's, right through the town I grew up in.

Maybe I won't need a new the Qintar fence after all.

brad cook
 
#48
Boplicity said:
A weather advisory I just read says that Rita has winds gusting up to 215 miles an hour and sustained winds of 175 miles an hour. Those gusts are tornado strength!

Let's just hope and pray that something, anything slows this bad girl down. If she roars ashore as a Cat 5 or strong Cat 4, gas might see $4.00 or $5.00 a gallon depending on how badly Houston oil refineries are hit.

The main thing is for anyone in her path to GET OUT. I can tell you how terrifying a hurricane is after counting every minute during Frances and Jeanne. I just kept saying, "Five more minutes. Five more minutes. If I can just get through five more minutes." I just kept watching that water and praying. Those two nights were the longest of my life. Don't do that to yourself. In retrospect, I realize how silly...how stupid it was to stay there just ten yards from the rip-roaring Intracoastal. Don't be like that. What for? Get out of Rita's path. She is on a rampage. You don't want to witness that.
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WOW!

Good post, Boplicity. ;)

That painted a vivid mental picture in my mind.

One which I hope no one else has to go through.

Mike
 
#50
We tried to leave this morning but couldn't. The freeways are packed. I talked to my Dad this morning. He left last night at 6:00. He's only 70 miles north of Houston and there's hardly a drop of gas to be found anywhere in or outside of Houston. People are stuck on the side of the road with no gas all along the way he said. We turned around and came home. We have a full tank in both cars, but I just can't see sitting on the road all day, burning up a tank of gas only to put us on the other side of town, still in harms way without the means to get out of town. It looks like it'll swing east of Houston and we'll get the weak side of the storm. We actually wanted to go south but the stupid powers that be closed the freeways going south. If they have any brains they'll open them back up. We might try again in the morning. We'll keep tracking all day. If the storm swings more east they should open the 59 south freeway and we can get out of town if we need to.
 
#51
Bad Brains said:
I read somewhere that in the last 8 years hurricanes have become much more powerful. I wonder if this is just natural or if all this global warming talk has anything to do with it.

Things like this are going to happen though. The gulf coast is so built up today that these kind of storms are going to have catastraphic results. I think people should really think twice about building a life in an area prone to hurricanes.
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ONCE THEY HIT THE GULF, THEY GET SO MUCH POWER. we can thank global warming for making the gulf have 90 degree water.


its sad with all this destruction and all, and i really feel for the people who may lose it all,but after katrina, and now this, our country is just going to get worse and worse. between gas prices hitting 5 bucks(hell they just came down 40 cents) and the fact that the economy will be in the friggen ****ter even more so.
 
#52
Global warming bah!
I have lived in texas city all my life we had plenty of hurricanes. And as for the temp of the ocean rising it goes up and down every 20 or so years and we got out early yesterday at 3 and no traffic jams we went on the boliver
ferry and just drove straight to I-10 and hade no traffic jams except one reck at rush hour in lake charles .
 
#53
Just got off the phone with Secretdonkey.....

It doesn't look very good....he's trying to scramble to head to Austin and then may come down to San Antonio....

I just checked the news, it looks like IH-45 is bumper to bumper...I think they opened up the southbound lanes to go northbound....Amazing....

I feel for all you guys..

:(
 
#55
Just tried to call my grandmother and aunt in Katy (west houston), and got the screeching "this number is no longer valid" message for both of them. My guess is there's just too much phone traffic going on.

I hear they've opened I-45 to Dallas up to northbound traffic on all 4 lanes.

I'm in Longview, northeast Texas. My company is shutting everything down Friday and taking backs of EVERYTHING offsite. We're a good way inland, but still... it'll be a big, bad storm when it gets here. At least flooding won't be much problem, with hills and such around here.
 
#56
well I can tell you from inside Houston, that this evacuation is going to be a national eye opener. all the major hwys out of town are parking lots, it has taken 2 of my coworkers 12 hrs to get to dallas(normally a 3-4hr drive). even thou reverse flow lanes are open there are too many people and HWy 10 is stopped for th epast few hrs. ridiculous.
Second houston proper is w/o any more gasoline. only a few places in town have any fuel and there are 20-50 cars in line. Next, All essentials in the stores are gone, no mor eplywood, bottled water, ice. Gone. If you have not filled up , gassed up or boarded up you are screwed, and honestly getting on the roads appears to be the worst thing to do.
Fortunately it appears the hurricane will land east of houston and we will not get full impact nor the "dirty side".
I am planning to ride out the storm at my employer who has a 10 story steel reinforced concrete structure w/ emergency power backups, 24/7 maintence staff, food, extras hospital beds and A/C.
But i'm still crossin m fingers
frank
 
#58
I live in North Houston, and my mother has been begging me to get out, but I'm going to stay. I can't deal with that traffic. I won't get it near as bad as the cities to the east, and I'm already stocked up on ice, water, and food. Plus I have an Avalon with an almost full tank of gas if I have to leave after the storm hits.
 
#59
darkfish01 said:
I live in North Houston, and my mother has been begging me to get out, but I'm going to stay. I can't deal with that traffic. I won't get it near as bad as the cities to the east, and I'm already stocked up on ice, water, and food. Plus I have an Avalon with an almost full tank of gas if I have to leave after the storm hits.
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Darkfish01,

I don't know what kind of structure you're in, but with all due respect you're making some big assumptions about whether:
a. it will withstand the wind & rain
b. you'll even be able to get out of the area post storm
(and I'd hate to find out that your Avalon got hurt...)

Prayers and good fortune to all, but I stand by my prior post.
 

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