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When Rita came through after Katrina a few years ago, my aunts had a horrible time while evacuating.This time, they are stocking up on water, have the cars filled with gas, and plan on riding out the storm. One aunt is closer to the coast, although still an hour or so away, and the other is 2.5 hours from the coast but her house is surrounded by shallow-rooted enormous pine trees.
*frets*
They should be okay, but it's disturbing.
Any Hatrackers still in Houston?
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I have plenty of friends and coworkers down there. Many are staying. I might rather stay than get stuck in a hurricane on the highway.
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My dad is in Houston, too, and he's staying. He says he has to protect his house, but if someone breaks in I think it would be better if he wasn't there. Isn't that what homeowner's insurance is for?
I was kind of hoping he'd come stay with us, although Albuquerque is a bit of a schlep, and I can sympathize with anyone who doesn't want to deal with those freeways right now. But I hope everything stays sane.
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I work in Houston and live in a nearby suburb. We are staying. My county is under mandatory evacuation, but our mayor said that the order didn't apply to our city. And based on the storm surge and wind projection maps, I can see why he believes that way. With as bad as Galveston could be, there is a lot of focus on letting them get out. We might evacuate after the storm if the destruction is pretty bad.
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I have to keep remembering that Houston is very, very inland. There won't be any walls of water bearing down on downtown.
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Where are you scholarette? I lived in League City for four years. I was there during TS Allison
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8 cases of beer, 3 gallons of liquor, lots of drinking water, batteries, flashlights, food and a strong community. We're ready. Houston won't get the storm surge, but they're expecting extended power outages and hurrican force winds for about 13 hours. Bring it on!
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I have been reading the sci guy at www.chron.com That seems to be a fairly non-alarmist, but still reasonable source of news and speculation.
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quote:Originally posted by scholarette: Pearland. League City faces a lot worse then we do.
My best friend from high school lives in Pearland. I haven't heard from her in a while and I can't remember her married name. It's good to know that things shouldn't be too bad there.
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My aunt and uncle and grandmother are. I'm worried about my grandmother, because she's pretty frail.
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I'm still here at my parents' house in Kingwood. We just finished boarding up windows facing the southeast (as that's where the winds supposed to come from). We've got plenty of food and water to last us. It should be okay.
I think I'm more worried about my fiance. She's in an area where she should be safe (Beasley, southwest of Houston), but I worry about her.
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Well we normally wouldn't, but we've got a few big trees with branches in our front yard and so we were a bit worried that the wind might snap them and blow them into our front windows (because of the direction of the wind). So we just boarded up some of the front windows as a precaution.
EDIT: I just wanted to add that this is the first time in the 13.5 years we've lived here that we've boarded up, so I guess it shows we're a lot more concerned about Ike.
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You're right, falling branches are probably the biggest danger.
I'm going to continue to not feel foolish for not boarding up in downtown. Nor will I feel foolish for partying, as katharina's link suggests.
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My sister in-law, brother-in-law and niece are staying, along with most of their neighbours.
They evacuated New Orleans when Katrina came, but lost their house due to flooding. Their new house is very high up and at no risk from flooding, they're boarding up, and not sleeping in their master bedroom which is under a tree. I'm sure they'll be ok, but it is worrying.
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So far, so good. The wind's picked up some, but nothing too bad. Of course this is just the beginning.
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If anyone hears how Katy fares, let me know. I grew up there and alot of my old classmates still have family there.
Ike dropped a ton of water and threw alot of wind at us near New Orleans. I'm staring out my back window watching the water level creep towards my house.
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Things are still good. The power flickered a few times about 15 minutes ago, but it's been good since then. I'm hoping the power will last me through Stargate Atlantis tonight.
EDIT: I made it through Atlantis, although power did flicker off for about a minute so I missed one part of a conversation. It wasn't anything necessary though, so it was fine. Wind's grown a little stronger, but still it's not too bad. My fiance seems to be doing okay as well (at least from the text messages we exchanged while we both watched Atlantis).
quote:Originally posted by pfresh85: I'm still here at my parents' house in Kingwood. We just finished boarding up windows facing the southeast (as that's where the winds supposed to come from). We've got plenty of food and water to last us. It should be okay.
I think I'm more worried about my fiance. She's in an area where she should be safe (Beasley, southwest of Houston), but I worry about her.
My aunt, uncle and cousin live in Kingwood. They were thinking of leaving but I guess either the Mayor or Governor said people there shouldn't leave, as it would make things worse for others who need to leave.
How are things there?
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The JSC e-mail is out of service also. I guess I don't have to come down for work this next week.
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I just received a text from my boss down there. She decided to ride it out too. She said her house made it although they have no electricity. She said some of the buildings at JSC had water in them.
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I've heard from most of everyone I know down there. They are all ok. Everyone says there is a lot of cleanup and no electricity.
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We made it. We lost a fence and had some large tree branches in our yards, but nothing that bad. We lost power and decided to go spend a few nights in San Antonio. Classes don't resume until Tuesday, so we don't need to be around. Baby has been pretty miserable and she has a slight fever so AC is very good right now.
ETA- we have been saying that we did pretty well in terms of damage. When a friend from another neighborhood (who has power already) stopped by, she was shocked at how muc damage our neighborhood in general had taken. Matter of perspective.
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Scholarette I agree..we had the same thing, I think the fences are nothing but others have said wow you got hit hard..compared to other areas we took nothing!
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I am headed to Houston today on Red Cross relief. I have been assigned the task of finding some missing people who may have special needs. Make sure that if you can't locate someone that has special needs (child, someone who takes medications, is pregnant, etc.) call the Red Cross and let us know. If they are in Houston, I will do my best!
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More details from my aunts. No power, so they went to Dallas until power is restored. My aunt with all the trees in her yard lost two large trees and her huge backyard is a pile of rubble, but both houses are fine and all the humans and dogs are fine. The fish pond is empty and all the fish are dead, but that was anticipated.
How terrifying to be in the house, though, as all the those big trees start blowing down.
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I haven't heard from many of my friends in Houston yet. I'm crossing my fingers thinking that if something had happened to them personally I would have heard about it through my network of friends. But I'm still concerned.
Edit: I finally wised up and checked the livejournal of someone who might be posting. She has a Blackberry, and has all friends accounted for but one couple who we know evac'd.
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quote: The media seems to be faking destruction pictures.
I wouldn't assume that. The building doesn't really look like it's in use, and a lot of gas stations have gone under recently. Driving around my town will demonstrate this; there are a lot of signs with gas prices in the two-dollar range.
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I'm back (albeit temporarily). We didn't suffer any damage, but we lost power. Power's still out now. I'm only online because we have a generator and a decent supply of gas for it. Everyone I know here is safe though. We're just without power for now.
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