OK, I'm out last night, like everyone looking for gas to get the heck out of Houston before Rita slaps this city around like the Big Easy....there were cars lined up for gas and I saw a bunch of pumps with the handles wrapped and notes saying they were out of gas. My girl and I went to get some supplies. She met me at the check out with a cart full of water, food, etc. She was a bit miffed when she didn't see me pushing a cart, but smiled real big when I placed a carton of buck shot rounds on the counter...just incase someone wants to try and help themselves to a 1958 Chevy apache... Seriously, it is getting nuts down here. Every store has sold out of batteries and flashlights, many are out of water, and just everything you might think is useful. Just try and find a sheet of plywood or a roll of duck tape...good luck!
The Mayor just announced that he is requesting that all employers let their employees skip work tomorrow and Friday, and announced a voluintary evacuation from low lying areas. The schools have canceled cl***es for the rest of the week.
Sounds like a plan, if the employers cooperate. And, about the empty shelves, sounds like a thriving economy down there. Funny what kind of things stimulate action at the cash register. Hope you weather the storm safely.
i'm glad that people are taking it seriously. Before Katrina people seemed to shrug off warnings. I know for sure I'd never live near any coast!
Yup, I already have some Houston Refugees(friends) on the way to my house in Dallas to ride out the storm.
Yeah we are in La Porte. Which is right in the path. We are heading out Thurs morning. Maybe going to Louisana or West Texas. Hope all you SE Texas guys make it out safe.
Your experiancing what we in Florida deal with and go through every 2-3 weeks, ****S, but you get used to it. Best of Luck to all in Texas! My thoughts and prayers will be with you. Glenn
Here on this coast I not left for one yet (came close with Hugo) BUT Rita is up to like 160mph!?!?! I would be gettin the **** out of any where in her path! Start drivin NOW.........................Short story about Hugo,for those who dont know Beaufort is just about as far as you can go east. Hugo was comin and most around here left and went to Raleigh,Charlotte,Durham ect. Hugo went in Charlston and tore HELL up then headed right to the Charlotte area and tore it all to ****. Quite a lot of people from here were there,took them 4-5 days to get out of there and back here....its an 8 hour drive! So you cant always get away from them. Good luck everyone!
Good luck to all of you folks on the Gulf Coast. Saying a prayer and thinking hopeful good thoughts on this end. chili
I was in charleston when hugo came through. I think I was about 10 years old. 89 right? Even as a kid, i still remember how bad that ****ed. we didnt leave either. My dad had built one of those Buckmiester Fuller Domes. Son of a ***** lost a shingle, that was it. Most of the houses around us didnt even have roofs anymore. That hurricane **** isnt fun, but i know its hard to leave your stuff behind. Good luck to you guys. trey
SHAW E&I annouced the closure schedule of their offices in the area, and they posted and check-in hotline number
Lucky Strike, Rodderboy54, Blake, and everyone else, good luck, take care of yourselves, we're praying for you
I called my ISP today to ***** about spam, the guy I talked to said they were in the process of boarding up his building, and they weren't gonna be at work tomorrow. He was in Galveston... Man, y'all be careful. And reasonable. And if you get hammered like them in N'awlins, you'se got a place to stay here. If you can handle this "big D". Good luck to ya. I guess this stuff makes the nine ****ing months of **** weather not look so bad here in the "mitten" state. Jay
Get used to it??sheeeit i get the ****in runs everytime i watch the weather channel LOL i'm nailin up the plywood and checkin my flashlites and M.R.E's when i see a dark cloud in the sky nowadays
Thanks for all your well wishes. Looks like we dodged a bullet on Rita. But I gotta tell you. Don't ever try to leave a city at the same time 4 million other people are doing the same thing in 100 degree weather. Every single highway, back road, and dirt path out of town was a parking lot! Totally imp***able. if Rita had hit at full force on Houston, I say there would have been bodies stacked along the highways....but we got lucky.. .and I got my eyes opened to what a real "evacuation" will be like if there is ever a terrorist strike on Houston... might as well bend over an kiss it goodbye because you aint' going no where.
.............kinda makes 'ya wonder where the billions upon billions of dollars spent on "Homeland Security" went???............... ........really glad y'all are OK..........
This thing was such a cluster fawk! And crazy enough the local goverment kicked *** in my opinion. People are going to do what they are going to do. The run on gasoline and the rats in a flood ****ter routine is just par for the course. I have one of those priority jobs. You know the ones where your the last to leave and the first back in an event such as this. I couldn't have left if I wanted too. But based on traffic if I'd wanted too I couldn't have. 18-22 hour drive from Houston to Dallas????? FAWK THAT! My daily is diesel, so that was the last to run out but thus far appears to be the last to be resupplied.
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