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Posted on 09/22/2005 5:44:09 PM PDT by NautiNurse
I wish they'd been able to leave! I worry about all the big trees. I'm concerned them may very well be without power and blocked in by downed trees!
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Thank Mike; I'm just the conduit tonight.
Getting just a fuzz of westing, 3.7 miles perpendicular to the 1700 projected path. Normally not enough to mention, probably a wobble, but with Houston highways clogged and the gasoline situation it's worth a heads up.
1700 projected track, surge and eyewall graphic here:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y138/jeffers_mz/02J.jpg
Thanks. Are you in Bmt? We moved to Houston from there 5 or so years ago. Seems like this caught them a little off guard. Is Goodson doing an OK job getting everyone out?
Not surprised by the staffing problem. Last night Rita was aimed almost dead on for Corpus.
yeah, and if they need to be choppered out, I doubt they'll get shot at.
I think I've already seen the dire damage alerts. Check weather warning links in red at the top of the thread.
Wow... wife just reported WalMart here in NW San Antonio pretty much cleaned out... long long lines at the gas pumps... and it is 8:30 at night? The storm isn't even supposed to come close to here.
That one sure would make a very wet weekend!
Wow, very cool link, thanks!
Oops...You beat me too it.
Me too. They should've gone to Dallas 2 days ago.
A sobering assessment. Is he normally on-target? His reasoning seems sound.
Hey, blam! I haven't been on these Rita threads...still playing catch-up on work delayed during the Katrina outages.
How did you come through? I know the west side of the bay got smacked hard. Is your place OK? Dogs OK?
I had a 15-foot-deep pile of trees/branches in my yard...but none hit the house. Some shingles blew off, but all in all, the house came through fine. No power for 7 days, but again, we couldn't complain while watching the horror in N.O. With the gas shortage, I shut down my generator and went to say with my niece's family---taking my gas cans with me. We used every last drop and then sat in a gas line for 4 1/2 hours on Friday.
Best purchase: a window air conditioner. Our routine was to start working on yard clean up around 8am, work til dark around 7pm. We got one channel where we could watch news at night---it was almost too depressing to watch. At around 10pm we unplugged the fridge and fired up the A/C. Had to all sleep on the floor in the den, but, hey!, it was cool!
Most interesting experience:
During the ferocious back side of the storm I was sitting near a large window. Every once in a while I heard children's sing-song voices. At first I was astonished to think the children next door were out in the storm, but I looked and they weren't out. This kept happening...little snippets of children's voices. Then, with sustained winds of about 100mph, I heard a piano playing and a group of adults & children singing "What a Friend I have in Jesus"! I have no idea where they were. We suspect the wind was picking up sound waves and dropping them at random. Ever heard of such a thing? It was a first for me.
Check out the five day track above with the big bubble covering the whole state of TX.
Bet a lot of evacuees did.
Heh. I got mine two days ago, back when it was leeegul.
Scoflaw.
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