Ike

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

He's trying to send video of some people they tried to help, but refused assistance.

[MannyIsGod]

@ news stations using webcams and skype now. Thats awesome

[timvp]

Agreed. As I said earlier today. If you want to contribute to the cleansing of the gene pool by sticking around in a flood plane with 20' of water coming at you, fine, but don't over your kids in the process by making them stick around.

I know what you meant but you kinda contradicted yourself there.

[MannyIsGod]

Someone tell B2B he can go to a free movie!

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[MannyIsGod]

I know what you meant but you kinda contradicted yourself there.

Man I don't even know what to say.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Gerber

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!

[samikeyp]

Depressing thought is anyone stuck on GI, and what's going to be going through their heads over the next several hours as they realize they're going to die. All because they were too stupid to evacuate.

Nature's way of culling the herd.

[MannyIsGod]

How long till Pedobear gets photoshopped into this?

[Ginofan]

You better be praying for your girl Abrams, AHF...they just had a 10x20 foot section of the hotel rip off...

[timvp]

The only 2 storms I've seen hyped up big time since Katrina are Gustav and Rita. And they BOTH ed up a lot of peoples lives. But if you are waiting for another Katrina repeat, this is your storm. Galveston and a lot of cities on the coast near it (as well as Port A) are about to go into the Gulf.

Gustav and Rita were powerful storms but no where near the "Katrina but way worse", "Gas is going to be $88 per gallon", "Every life form will be destroyed" type talk that they were hyped up to be. Compared to Katrina, those two hurricanes were slight drizzles.

[MannyIsGod]

You better be praying for your girl Abrams, AHF...they just had a 10x20 foot section of the hotel rip off...

WOAH wtf? Did they show it on the WC? I just turned it on.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Damn, I remember my senor trip down to Galveston and walking out on those piers with the shops.....

Sad...

You probably inflicted strain upon the structure.

[Ginofan]

WOAH wtf? Did they show it on the WC? I just turned it on.

Yeah they just showed in on the weather channel. I'm pretty sure it's that hotel in Galveston because they kept saying "our hotel" blah blah. Insulation and such was flying around everywhere.

[thispego]

You probably inflicted strain upon the structure.

[MannyIsGod]

Gustav and Rita were powerful storms but no where near the "Katrina but way worse", "Gas is going to be $88 per gallon", "Every life form will be destroyed" type talk that they were hyped up to be. Compared to Katrina, those two hurricanes were slight drizzles.

Yeah but they have to warn people beforehand. If Gustav had been 30 miles East, it would have been as bad as Katrina. If Rita had followed the path Ike is taking now, it would have been as bad as Katrina.

Its more about location with Hurricanes than anything else and they just can't predict which ones are going to hit big cities that well.

They could have very easily been very bad.

I do think that Rita and Gustav were both a lot worse than people realize. Especially Rita. If Katrina hadn't just happend, Rita would have been remembered as one of the worst storms in US history.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

@ news stations using webcams and skype now. Thats awesome

I ing love it, man. I learned about a station in Miami trying it while I was at UNITY and I brought back the idea. We've been testing off-and-on for the past few weeks, but finally got a chance to go live with it.

We've also got photogs and reporters using Twitpic so we can update our KSATWeather Twitter.

It was kinda funny... 20 minutes after Gerber did his liveshot with Skype along Kemah's seawall, FOXNews did the same shot the same way.

[MannyIsGod]

Fox News is stealing from you!!!!

[MannyIsGod]

Tell Gerber to go kick the Fox News reporter in the nuts.

[MannyIsGod]

Reports are that 60-90k people have not evacuated and are in storm surge areas. I think 60,000 of those were in Galveston. If 60,000 people stayed in Galveston then this might be the worst national diaster we've had in well...ever?

Are there really that many stupid people there?

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Tell Gerber to go kick the Fox News reporter in the nuts.

They're getting out of Dodge, man.... no sense in hanging around. We're certainly not the first to try it, but I think it's great that we are.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

i heard from this dude on tpark's senior trip that he ate a thousand little jars of gerber food

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

For the Twitpic/Twitter side: http://www.twitter.com/ksatweather

[MannyIsGod]

They're getting out of Dodge, man.... no sense in hanging around. We're certainly not the first to try it, but I think it's great that we are.

Where's he staying? Probably safer to stay wherever those WC people are staying than to try to head back over that bridge in a news van.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

I'm working on the video now... I'll post a link in a few.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Where's he staying? Probably safer to stay wherever those WC people are staying than to try to head back over that bridge in a news van.

I doubt they're gonna head over the bridge... but he's offline right now. They're trucking around in an Explorer.