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We were staying at the Intercontiential down there waiting on our house to be finished. On Wednesday, my company bugged Mrs. KYreb and me out to join our emergency response team in Ohio.
We are staging truckloads of supplies to send in afterward. I'll be back on the 1st company plane. Good Luck! Stay safe! |
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Its almost noon now. I've been wasting gas more than I should, but it was too tempting to drive around Houston and see its resemblance to a ghost town. They say around 2.5 million folks have evacuated and the rest have all hunkered down to wait. Streets and freeways are almost totally empty!! The only things still open were 2 gas stations with huge 50-plus car lines and a Baskin Robbins ice cream place.
In the last hour or so the wind has started into a gentle breeze, barely enough to get the flags that are still up to straighten out. I'll post more as I see more........ |
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Still alot of traffice on my side of town. Most stores are closed and the winds have picked up since yesterday.
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I lived in the Village for 4 years during med school. If your power goes out, can you open windows for some ventilation?
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Sure...if it's not raining |
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Usually only necessary THE DAY AFTER THE STORM WHEN THE SUN IS SHINING AND THE HUMIDITY IS 100%! |
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Mike,
Our thoughts and prayers are with you. Keep your powder dry! ---Woody--- |
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Thank you |
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We have two large sliding doors and several openable windows, Fortunately they all lock down tight as well. |
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we need a hurricane to just churn in the gulf indefinitely.....................i love nobody being around, so damned peaceful it's great
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+1 Its better than driving around town at 3am sunday night!! |
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Oh my God!
The horror! The Humanity! I think three leaves just fell in my pool..driven by the ferocious 10 mph wind.... I'm wondering if we'll even get rain in North Houston from Rita |
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we just got about two mins of sprinkles |
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Oh Christ. I have a friend in the Coast Guard. I'll get him headed your way. The terror has to stop soon.....I don't know if I can take any more... |
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Coz,
What cha smoking? I am trying to decide on the best hurricane cigar - maybe a Monte #2 - torpedo shape and all.... |
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Hey Walker, I'm sittin' at the computer chair with a good "chaw" of Levi Garrett and a COLD Tecate.
Smoked my last 2 Cohiba Lanceros(Cuban) last Saturday. Take care all SE Texas residents....NW Houston is still in good shape. 4:38PM. |
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6:55pm - Houston - 290 and the Loop
The chair is against the wall, I repeat, the chair is against the wall. Oh, wait, that's another thread. Everything clear here so far, except for the 30 second shower a few minutes ago. Interesting thing about the rain was that it was very warm. Freaky. It was like that during Alicia. Good luck, folks, especially those getting the direct hit. Alpine |
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7:30 PM friday here. Wind has picked up a bit more. Lights blinked a few times already.
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Galveston just lost power when mayor was live on the air with foxnews
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I have an Arturo Fuente Chateau in Maduro wrapper. |
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10:30pm and according to the maps and radar quite a bit of the storm has already passed overhead without much fan faire.
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Update:.................Power was just lost at my apartment complex. Not the one I'm currently at, but the one that I'm always showing pics of.
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8:45 am here. Winds and rain are coming sporaticly. Still have power.
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Thanks for the update, guys. Sounds like Galveston and Houston are just lucked out with minimal damages. |
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funny, 2 days ago there was a category 5 hurricane staring corpus christi down....................now it's clear, sunny, hot as a motherfucker and the same hurricane that led everybody to buy out grocery stores and gas stations is a memory
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Still cloudy and windy here in Houston. Amazingly, our power and phones have so far survived even though the area has a million trees. Lots of folks just east of us are without power. We lost one small tree and some of our landscaping. As long as we don't have some freak wind come up and trash us, we should be in amazingly good shape here.
My workplace downtown lost power at 0400, but regained it at 0900, so I'll be able to get in there and get the IT infrastructure going again before folks come back Monday. I hear there is some debris on the roads downtown, but doubt it amounts to much. Houston was mercifully spared a direct hit, and fortunately for the folks at the TX/LA border the storm weakened significantly and began losing integrity before landfall. My sister in Sugar Land was without power sporadically, but is currently up. My Dad in SW Houston is sans electricity, but otherwise is fine, too. My family has certainly dodged a major storm, and I hope that everyone else and their families have fared as well. Take care, all. Alpine |
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all we had was a glitch of power lost around 3:30am just enough to reset all the clocks
no trees fallen nothing that usually follows heavy storms |
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Out here in Katy we are doing good.
Few small branches down, but it doesn't amount to anything. We lost power only once, and then it was only for 30 minutes about 4am. The power flickers as they balance load or whatnot, but we're in good shape. |
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