Another Waco area FReeper here. Greyfoxx, is your family in a low lying area? I'm not especially uneasy about things here, but maybe that's stupidity on my part. Just got home from work, and saw gas lines in Waco, and heard reports that a few larger stations will run out of fuel tonight. The grocery stores are out of bottled water. Not sure if that's from a local panic mentality, or water supplies are being diverted elsewhere. I'm with one of the local hospitals, and we spent the day perfecting our disaster drill skills. We've already received transfer patients from hospitals southeast of us.
If it's like Austin, it is local panic. My local supermarket was out of bottled water by 4:30 p.m. yesterday.
Mom is in a nursing home on 24th, brother lives near the VA. I seem to remember the area around Maple and 24th being flood-prone, but assume that the home has made plans. She was just moved to a different room and doesn't have a phone yet, brother works odd hours and doesn't communicate much..I imagine that he will email if it looks serious. I'm not going to panic for a day or two in any case.
I don't think we have any reason to be uneasy around here. Only reason I'm out doing some work for this is that I'm working with a city emergency coordinator out in Bosque county.
Our only concerns are flooding in low lying areas and loss of power. Everyone knows here where the flood prone areas are so we're ready to evacuate there. But, if we lose power, so many of the people working for the power company have been diverted into the Katrina hit areas and are on standby for the coast that it may be a lot longer before power can be restored. We've got to be concerned about the people in the nursing home and invalids at home then. But, we're as ready as anybody can get for something like that.