Posted on 09/12/2008 11:29:13 PM PDT by NautiNurse
The above report that I posted from Texas City indicating that the roof of a very well built commercial structure was ripped off the building on the front half of the storm, as well as continued reports of fires across the region, indicate that your statement is astoundingly false, but I'll be praying that it proves true.
Do you know why no one has replied to this post?
It’s because it’s stupid.
Hi sweetie.. you giving NN a hard time????
I couldn’t help but chuckle a bit when I read your first “it was dying”.. one of my favorite sayings (taken from my dad)..
We are all dying.. just dont know why & when. Not terribly funny but an inside family joke - you would have to know my dad!
You stay safe. Sometimes people think the worse is passed & get into trouble, if you have been through many hurricanes you know that. My years in Houston there were not major storms. I was lucky..
Just freep & relax. I am not having Gallo but making a dent in a nice bottle of Australian wine!
I’m happy someone could let me know more of the wall. The news down there compared them to the New Orleans levees. It sounds like the Mississippi River wall in New Orleans actually built by the Corp and not compromised in either storm.
My daughter and SIL are in Shenandoah..abutting The Woodlands..Are you near?
Maybe so. I would be too, if I were in for Ike. :-)
He’s a great guy, very salt of the earth. Hope he and his are okay in the storm’s path.
OK, I’m back but ready to hit the “hunker bunker” if need be.
I was really upset earlier tonight because my daughter said something about the babysitter’s family attending some sporting event between Pineville and Tioga High Schools. When I checked my e-mail earlier and saw the first NWS tornado warning heading straight through Pineville and Ball, I tried to contact my daughter but she didn’t answer her cell or text me back for quite some time. At that same moment, someone watching the TV in the break room at my job announced that a tornado had just touched down in Tioga. I finally got through to the sitter and learned that she had kept the younger children at home, but the teenagers went on their own to the game. When the teens returned home, they were soaking wet. Everyone parked their vehicles up on top of the lawn because last week they were underwater from the flooding two days after Gustav.
I was scared to drive home to Pineville because I expected all sorts of flying debris in the road, but we made it OK. Still, there’s this ominous clicking sound coming from the drainage ditch behind our apartment building, and a small lake is forming in the backyard. I hope no one has tossed tree branches in the ditch which would impede the flow of water, or it’s going to be a major mess back there this weekend.
We still have some MREs left over from last week, so we have no intention of venturing outside tomorrow — it’s the general consensus that things are about to get considerably worse as the weekend progresses. I’m just grateful to have Saturday and Sunday off, because the morons at my job refused to close early — again. You’d think they would have learned something since the place flooded after Gustav. They were barking over the PA system, “Please disregard the rumors on the floor that there is a curfew. THERE IS NO CURFEW!!” Sheesh, God forbid that the Mayor of Alexandria should take preventative measures in the face of multiple NWS tornado warnings which specifically mention Alexandria and Pineville in them and include the times that the tornados will arrive!!
OK, rant off. My breaks at work were too short to get caught up on these threads, so I’m doing that now before the power outages start (though I am kinda morbidly curious if my new backup battery works).
The accounts of Galveston make me very sad indeed. I went with my daughter and a family friend to a group luncheon at a place called Fish Tales on Seawall Boulevard last summer and was planning to go back there again someday. We rode on the ferry and walked on the beach and couldn’t get over the number of seagulls. Doesn’t sound like we’ll be able to return any time soon; it’s heartbreaking.
Prayers for everyone tonight...this song keeps going through my head: Stevie Wonder’s Higher Ground (also covered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers).
http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/stevie_wonder/higher_ground.html
It’s Texas, so I have faith.
I am in Champions.
Is the structural damage survivable so far, do you know?
Thanks.
Does anyone know if that mom with the kids & animals that was interviewed this afternoon was evacuated? I was gone for most of time between 3 & 9. she said it was too late to leave. Remember she decided to stay so her two young children could learn about big storms
duh
You got that right, Allegra!!!!
Uh oh, the wind is getting very scary!!
You are very welcome :) I have been praying off and on all evening, too, although my eyes are beginning to close themselves as I sit here, so I think I'm going to have to call it a night pretty soon.
BTW ...Nice to know more organized is not good. I am never organized!
You're not the only one! ;-)
She’s still there, and she’s going to be interviewed by phone on FoxNews in about a minute.
well good to know she is still alive. I didn’t wish her harm & surely not her innocent pets & kids but thought she was very VERY ill advised from who knows ..
I don’t know where that is...
I don’t know and didn’t see it. I’m the type of guy that would stay but I don’t think I would endanger children after knowing what Camille did to Biloxi.
did the eye wall cross over yet? I have been FReeping & not listening to the stream
Hey Meg!
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