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Galveston will begin a voluntary evacuation tomorrow...
I used to feel that way till I almost died in Celia ( Corpus Christi...1970 ) Never again!!!!!! You think you're smarter than a lot of people and "know" how to survive. Hurricanes do not respect that!!
Galveston will begin a voluntary evacuation tomorrow...
Good idea!
Maybe so, but the chance of surving it is what draws my attention. Its dumb, I know, but stuff like that really grabs my attention.
Nothing wrong with being adventurous cause I was in my 30's when that happened but it taught me a valuable lesson. Just ask some of those in NO if they would ride it out again! Not Me!
Understandable.
Most people who have been through a big one never want to do it again. I went through some as a small child in the valley and I drove through the outer edges of Brent a few years ago. But I want to experience it now. I don't need a full fledged Cat 5. In fact, I'd be happy with a solid Cat 1. I'd like to live.
I think I'd be down with a Cat. 1 as well. I just want to feel the power of a hurricane. Not the wrath.
We have a 2 story house in port A. A block from the Coast Guard station. But I would not stay in that thing during a major storm.. it's old and falling apart...
My best friend's family has a kick ass bayhouse in Rockport. I woudln't stay in that if you paid me. I helped build it and I know how much rebar is around the stilts, but I wouldn't chance that holding up under anytype of surge.
The models are backing off of LA for now and back onto Texas.
yea
Last edited by Vashner; 09-19-2005 at 02:21 PM.
damn...4 out of 5 show a direct hit on Houston/Galveston. The storm surge into the Galveston bay system could be a mutha...
The NWS has planes out getting upper air readings all over the gulf today. These readings will then be fed into the next series of model runs, and we'll get a really good idea of what is happening tomorrow morning when those runs come out.
I'm telling you though, this thing is going to come after Texas.
[QUOTE=eriks]My first weekend off was scheduled for next weekend. Nice timing.
nevermind
Last edited by minusplus; 09-19-2005 at 03:43 PM.
I haven't read the whole thread, but I read somewhere that Galveston officials will make a decision regarding evacuation by this time tomorrow.
Thats probably a good idea. That will put them at about 3 days out. Not a bad time for a voluntary evac.
LOL. We are hosting a recruitment event at work on Saturday, and we just got a couple of calls asking what we would do if we are hit by the hurricane - will there be a change of venue?
Heh. Yeah, lady, if we get hit - I'm out of here for one, and two, your access to the campus will be cut off by flooding. But thanks for your interest!
It better be a mandatory evacuation. The highest point on Galveston Island is 15 feet above sea level. Most of the west end is 5 feet or less. A Katrina type storm surge would put the surge seven feet over the seawall, and there is NO backside or west end protection.
A good comparison would Dauphin Island off of Alabama...Katrina destroyed the island. It's gone. If it looks like Galveston is the target and they don't order a mandatory evacation I will be amazed...
Mayor Nagin says it's going to hit Louisiana.
Can he tell me the lottery numbers, too?
Nagin is on crack.
CC, the chances of the surge from this storm being like Katrina are very slim. But I would order a mandatory either way, a cat 3 is a strong storm.
Rita hasn't even hit the gulf.
Katrina was a homeless bum prior to hitting the gulf. Once she did, she became a millionaire.
Right now, Rita looks like a woman on welfare.
Those have to be the worst analogies I've ever heard in my 25 years of life.
I'd like my ten seconds back now, please.
Geez, if these models are correct then it looks like Mother Nature is trying to chase the population of Louisiana all the way to California. Granted Houston won't be wiped off the map the way NOLA was but this is still pretty ed up.
Why, oh why, couldn't Bush have signed the Kyoto protocols? If only he had everything would be OK.
You're a ing idiot.
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