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Posted on 09/21/2005 4:19:11 PM PDT by NautiNurse
station ran out now...
what a dope...fill it with regular and dump some fuel treatment in it....one tank of regular gas wont kill a Land Rover Discovery.
You can tell her that the good news is that it appears more people are evacuating than we expected. As to the 30 mile storm surge, only up the Trinity River, and Galveston Bay normally extends that far inland. Give me a second, and I'll post a link to storm surge maps for the area.
Most of San Leon is gone, just about everything is shut down, 146, I45 is a parking lot, tomorrow just about everyone left is planning on leaving, it is so sad, we are all homeless come saturday, things are loooking very very bad. I will be doing an all hands meeting 10 am thrusdays praying for a shift in forecast track. We can not survive a direct/close hit from Rita.
I know what you mean Ian. I got away from it for quite a while myself today. This is going be bad for everyone.
actually, the gas station should have been rationing those bubbas with SUVs....
Anyone trying to get through via phone to Coastal TX, or trying to call out and failing - if both you and the other party have a cell phone, switch to text messaging and use that. The text messaging system is separate from the voice channels and is much under utilized. Just got a hold of a couple people down there by text message who were unreachable otherwise. They're on their way to Dallas.
Can you imagine if one of the satellite shots displayed a perfect Dana Skully eye in the center of that thing? Freaky. And then, if it like, blinked. Weird.
I think I;d stay too. It's hard to leave.
I think you really touch on something here. The hyper-intense media coverage of this coming catatrophe just on the heels of the last will leave the country hung over with grief, sadness and frustration and looking hard for meaning in these ostensibly "natural" events.
I just don't know how to respond to this, and I'm not sure the nation does either.
One thing for sure, blaming the President for the weather should, finally, start to look extremely wrong.
Link? Where is the 890 report?
OH MY!!!!
OK! I love your maps!
Dude, that's NASCAR.
Thanks for the tides info! Now to go match that up with landfall forecasts..
Hey! Yeah, I run around here chatting when I can. I got Gloria in southern Maryland. I think I was 17 at the time, and I ended up in a house alone all night.
890 was never official. The recon plane measured the pressure at 899, but also measured winds at 32 knots at that spot. The NHC put it at 898 at that point (6:50 pm CDT), with the acknowledgement that it could be lower. They later revised it to 897 at the 10 pm CDT update, using the rule that an adjustment downward of 1 mb with every 10 knots of windspeed starting at 20 knots.
Try the Housing thread, think there was someone in Dallas who was offering his large home. Wish I could, but I have a small place and a large overprotective cat.
Can't have the Lexus run on just regular gas, you know.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's flooding along the Ship Channel in between I-10 and the Pasadena Freeway (TX 225), at least up to I-610 if the storm hits Galveston Bay.
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