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To: topher
Watching Houston Channel 11 via Satellite.

They reported a 911 call from Galveston from people pleading for help as home was collapsing around them. Of course, anyone currently in trouble on Galveston are on their own.

Another report from Galveston had water 20 to 25 feet on SEAWALL BLVD in Galveston.

Courthouse in Galveston has 3 feet of water in it. People are inside...

From the Television picture, it is clear that the I-610 loop would easily fit inside the EYE of the storm.

Center of the Eye is now North of I-10 and to the East of the I-610 loop (downtown is west of Eye)...

368 posted on 09/13/2008 3:14:48 AM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: topher

” Of course, anyone currently in trouble on Galveston are on their own. “

A little bit ago, Cantore was interviewing a guy who’d *swum* a couple of blocks, then waded some 14 blocks from his now-underwater home to the hotel on high ground....

Said he was the only one in his neighborhood ‘dumb enough to stay there’.. (his words..)


370 posted on 09/13/2008 3:18:13 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Sometimes I sets and thinks, and sometimes I jus' sets.........)
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ping to post 368


454 posted on 09/13/2008 4:54:23 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: topher
topher, I dont know if you were on last nights thread but Shep got a call from a guy who owned a store on the island. He said there was 5 ft of water already in the building.

There were 45 other people in the building. They were on the second floor.

He said that if it got that high they could go up to the next floor that was about 50 ft high.

If he was talking about a three story building, I think it would make the building 3 floors.

From the conversation, it sounds like, they were already roughing it out, and that was way before it got really bad.

462 posted on 09/13/2008 4:59:25 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. FReerepublic,com baby)
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