This beauty starts within seconds of power going off...I want one.
Posted on 09/21/2005 4:58:56 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society
Hi Molly,
I haven't been to Corpus in years --- and I barely recall Galveston from the oil related trips with my dad. I know Galveston used to be below sea level but that after the huge hurricane 100 years ago, it was rebuilt above sea level and now you tell me it's a flat area. OMG! I fear for the destruction, the huge hit on our economy, but most of all, for the people. I am so stunned by the size of this one, that I feel numb.
I hope our kassie evacuates.
Kassie - I see you're north of Freeport, which I'm going to look up on the atlas, and that you're staying. Make sure you cell is charged, you fill the tub with water, have a can opener and flashlight, and a battery operated radio. I'll keep you in my prayers, FRiend.
Yes, after the 1900 storm, everything was rebuilt higher on Galveston - where I was born.
My great great aunt and her family managed to survive that storm. They happened to live on the very-slight rise of land on the Gulf side of the Strand.
First NO - where my great - g aunt was born - my NO family, and now Galveston.!!
You really have family roots in Galveston. I remember being impressed with Galveston... maybe it had to do with buildings on stilts? I swear, when I am finally settled in this house, I am going to go thru all 12 large boxes of family photos I brought with us. I know there's several photos of Houston, Galveston, Corpus and San Antonio in the 50's.
Do you still have any family in either NO or Galveston/Houston?
The reviews were all raves for this $24.99 little radio. Even if the power does not go off, I can use it outside on the deck or carry it w/me wherever I want.
Now, I'm also considering that Black and Decker Storm Station. lol
Checking in. I have a few more tasks to complete requiring daylight hours. I'll be back when I'm done.
NO is another story.
2 of my cousins fled NO & Katrina and headed to Houston, then a farm w. of the city!! Don't know what they're going to do now!!
They probably feel like they have a bullseye on their backs....
I back ordered that Black&Deker storm station thang.
My God, Rita has dropped to 904! Kat got to 902 but not when it hit.
Rita is STILL GROWING.
Oh my goodness. Your poor cousins. I think all we can do is pray and offer our help.
Where is kassie now? I have sent her my telephone numbers and asked her to call if she needs anything at all. Anything.
I am terribly worried. Terribly.
This beauty starts within seconds of power going off...I want one.
That was good of you to send her your phone #.
Storm surges expected all way to ClearLake and Pasedena...those are s.e. side of Houston & on the Mainland about 30 miles inland!...Just heard that on Hewitt's show...
Now maybe that's panicky, but maybe not....
I don;t think that's panicky,. Molly, I know how media folks like to overhype stuff, but I doubt it's possible at this point to "misunderestimate" Rita. Thirty miles inland would not surprise me, now that you have told me the area is literally flat.
I am even worried about Toby again. We have a high pressure system over MS that might start dissapating Friday and if it does?
Is a little joke appropriate? I hope so. I loved this one I got in e-mail today from a special friend.
Subject: Diet
A dietitian was once addressing a large audience in Chicago:
"The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago.
Red meat is awful. Soft drinks erode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. Vegetables can be disastrous, and none of us realize the long-term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water.
But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all -- and we all have, or will at some point, eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?"
A 75-year-old man in the front row stood up and said, "Wedding cake."
Night onyx, everyone....
I just got an email telling me that the radio has already been shipped. I thought if I liked it that additional ones would make nice Christmas gifts for some on my list.
Looking through the L.L. Bean catalogue that came the other day, I saw a novel 2-part ball that if you put ice in the bottom part and shake and shake the ice cream recipe in the top half, you'd soon have ice cream! I've got a 10 yo grandson that would like that, I think, since he LOVES ice cream.
I am seriously thinking about ordering that Black&Decker Storm Station. Living alone in a rural area, I think I could really use one.
"Vegetarian" is an old Indian word meaning "I don't hunt so good."
There is a historical significance to party boats, going back to um, Cleopatra and um, Moses, and um...the crew of the Exxon-Valdez.
Oh, they're weighin' the fish at the fish weigh-in, down at Mercury Creek
The prize is a boat and a bucket of bugs for the biggest fish of the week
I caught me a nice little sunfish, it's gonna make me a winner
Not from the size of the fish itself, but the ball bearings I fed it for dinner!
They say necessity is the mother of invention. Don't know who the father is, probably remorse.
If life gives you lemons, throw 'em into a quart of vodka!
Red Green: You can't be forgetting your wedding anniversary, Dalton.
Dalton Humphries: Yeah, it's kind of ironic when the second dumbest think you ever did was to forget the dumbest thing you ever did.
OK, that's enough... ;)
Go to Fox News, there's a Jet Blue airliner with buggered landing gear about to try a soft landing, may things go well!
The story of my life for the past 6 months. Mind you 5 years prior...I didn't touch a drop.
Yikes..Jet Blue...changing channels.
Nite Molly dear.
Missing you and yet....I understand...so happy...you are happy.
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