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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Hangtime on September 21, 2005, 12:05:46 PM
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She's a Cat 4 already. Cockied and Locked.. and headed fer Texas.
Gents, if yer in the track for this monster and you havent made plans to get 100-150 miles inland, do it now.
God bless the great state of Texas.. and fer crissakes; grab yer dog, yer cat; get yer hat and yer piece and get the hell outta the coastal regions.
Since the hotels are booked and the shelters somewhat cramped, might I suggest a week long camping trip?
Good luck and again.. God Bless yah all.
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Yup.. get out and stay safe.
Are HTC gonna evacuate?
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Do I hear $70 a barrel?
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Its just a hurrican. We get them all the time here and they never hit us...they always change course so we are staying put. We might even have a hurrican party.
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Originally posted by Yeager
Its just a hurrican. We get them all the time here and they never hit us...they always change course so we are staying put. We might even have a hurrican party.
:rofl :rofl :rofl
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Are prices up today?
My shares in Statoil are.... again.
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Originally posted by Nilsen
Yup.. get out and stay safe.
Are HTC gonna evacuate?
LOL
That would be one bad MoFo of a cane to get into Grapevine. :)
I heard that HTC is considering evacuation. Not from the cane , but that Skuzzy went overboard on the frijoles last night. :)
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Is Grapewine too far inland to get hit?
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Originally posted by Jackal1
LOL
That would be one bad MoFo of a cane to get into Grapevine. :)
I heard that HTC is considering evacuation. Not from the cane , but that Skuzzy went overboard on the frijoles last night. :)
YEP, SKUZZY ST. HELENS, aka VESUVIOUS, got er did, in the H2H.:mad:
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Hate to say it but this picture looks like a cat5 - wonder if it will reach it today?
(http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/GMEX/WV/20.jpg)
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Originally posted by Nilsen
Is Grapewine too far inland to get hit?
Yes. Grapevine is near Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Well inland.
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http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=Grapevine,+TX
Just use the Dallas/Fort Worth metro area for Grapevine. It's way to far inland to get a hurricane. Rain and tornados are another story altogether though. For reference, pull it back just so you can see NO on the map next to the coast.
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Originally posted by Jackal1
Yes. Grapevine is near Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Well inland.
Ah i see.. thx
That explains why Skuzzy knows so little about boats.. going on about "scuppers" and whatnot...
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Live continuously-updated feed:
(http://www.wunderground.com/data/640x480/2xg4_ir_anim.gif)
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Just a note, I don't think there has ever been 2 cat5 hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico in a single season, and I will be extremely surprised if Rita isn't elevated to a cat5 on the next advisory.
Prayers are with you , Texas.
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Originally posted by Munkii
http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=Grapevine,+TX
Just use the Dallas/Fort Worth metro area for Grapevine. It's way to far inland to get a hurricane. Rain and tornados are another story altogether though. For reference, pull it back just so you can see NO on the map next to the coast.
I dont trust maps..
if you just happen to hold them the wrong way for some reason the world doesnt keep up with that rotation and you get lost.
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A crushing blow for Texas is as certain as a sunrise. If you live on the track and yer reading this, get off yer wide fat bellybutton and get your family the hell outta the way.
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What the heck is with all these huge hurricaines this season?
Looks like we have messed up the weather patterns good.
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global farting
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Originally posted by fartwinkle
What the heck is with all these huge hurricaines this season?
Looks like we have messed up the weather patterns good.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/05/17/hurricane.forecast/
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why is Bush causing a hurricane that will strike his home state?
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Originally posted by Eagler
why is Bush causing a hurricane that will strike his home state?
:rofl
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Because he's an idiot.
-SW
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Originally posted by Eagler
why is Bush causing a hurricane that will strike his home state?
Duh!
Because his puppetmaster, Cheney, wants even more contracts for Halliburton.
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It's now CAT 5 with 150MPH sustained. My brother lives in Pasadena (suburb of Houston built next to most of the refineries). Hope he has enough of the brain cells left that he cooked off in his 20's to get outta there.
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This is the wind path that a storm like this has as far as severe high wind destruction,(yellow is 39 mph, red is the bad stuff!) The signature of the high winds are smaller than I expected, but it does not diminish the intensity of the overall storm with storm surge and flooding combined with high winds. Its like a huge F2 Fujita scale tornado!
(http://maps.wunderground.com/data/images/at200518_wind.gif)
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Does anyone know what the roads out of Katy are like? Anyone from Katy know which is the best way out? The 10 to San Antonio okay?
My niece and her mom are there getting ready to leave.
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Originally posted by Eagler
why is Bush causing a hurricane that will strike his home state?
Well he wants to see oil @$100/barrel for his oil buddies. Plus, as a real stroke of genius, he can claim that he isn't playing God with the American public because after all, who would be willing to hit his own state?
Seriously, these hurricanes are taking a dangerous turn for the lethal in their classifications. As Rip's post shows, it's a trend of the past several years.
Is it possible of "global warming" having an influence?
Also, hurricanes are somewhat unpredictable as Katrina was initially supposed to hit Florida.
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Originally posted by BTW
Just a note, I don't think there has ever been 2 cat5 hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico in a single season, and I will be extremely surprised if Rita isn't elevated to a cat5 on
you are right, its for the first time a Hurricane cat5 in a one season.
The water in the gulf is still very warm, and the missing coldfronts from the north.
Hope Rita will lose some energy towards the land, but right now
the air pressure in the eye dropped down to 904 hPa!
This monster is stronger then Kathrina! at this point.
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Also, hurricanes are somewhat unpredictable as Katrina was initially supposed to hit Florida.
Katrina did hit florida.
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Hope you folks on the gulf coast are paying attention. Rita's getting ugly and there's nothing cold in the way to slow her down any. This isn't one you want to sit out.
I hope you all make it out in time.
asw
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Originally posted by Godzilla
Does anyone know what the roads out of Katy are like? Anyone from Katy know which is the best way out? The 10 to San Antonio okay?
My niece and her mom are there getting ready to leave.
I`m assuming you mean weather wise.
Katy is still well in the clear. The storm is not predicted to hit until weekend.
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I was wondering about the traffic and problems getting a safe distance away by friday night.
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Originally posted by Godzilla
I was wondering about the traffic and problems getting a safe distance away by friday night.
I-10 is 30 minutes from Beltway 8 to Barker Cypress, bumper to bumper. That's barely 5 miles. Gonna get worse.
I-45 N from Galveston to Huntsville is 14 hours.
We're backroading it from Katy all the way to at least Conroe, probably Huntsville before even bothering with 45N. 8 hours & I'm outta here.
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I'd also like to add that here at my day job, they're not closing until 3pm Saturday. All of the other dealerships in Houston closed at noon today... except us & our sister store.
Time to prepare? Nah, we don't need it. :huh
Amazing that somebody would endanger so many of us for a few bucks.
Anybody know if that's criminal negligence yet? Or does somebody have to get killed first? :furious
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Originally posted by indy007
I'd also like to add that here at my day job, they're not closing until 3pm Saturday. All of the other dealerships in Houston closed at noon today... except us & our sister store.
Time to prepare? Nah, we don't need it. :huh
Amazing that somebody would endanger so many of us for a few bucks.
Anybody know if that's criminal negligence yet? Or does somebody have to get killed first? :furious
you never know. Fema might come in and order a few vans and trucks last minute to help transport looters away from the city. :noid
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If your going to San antonio I'd say try to hit 290 to HWY 6 then come to B/CS and take 21 west to San Antonio. It may take a lil bit but the roads arent as congested as the Interstates are.
Also Hwy 6 to Dallas isnt bad either.
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Said right now its got winds of 165 mph and 3rd more powerful hurricane in the gulf on record
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I got a call from Grocer's Supply today. They are the largest independant grocery supplier in Texas. They are locking down their central warehouse and sending most of their trucks to Dallas thursday. May be the last delivery for a while if Houston takes a hit. Lots of small towns across Texas may not get any food until they reopen.
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(http://www.intellicast.com/WeatherImg/SatelliteLoop/hifloat5_None_anim.gif)
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Just wondering, is there still a lot of NO evacuees in Houston? IF so, will they re-evacuate to............?
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Originally posted by Meatwad
Just wondering, is there still a lot of NO evacuees in Houston? IF so, will they re-evacuate to............?
San Antonio and Dallas.
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Does that mean AH'ers can camp out at HTC HQ?
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" a lot of NO evacuees in Houston? "
wow, apparently some intelligent designer somewhere (maybe EA? doesnt sound to intelligent to me) doesnt like poor black people with funny accents...
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175 and growing, this thing is a monster
Dallas is going to see 40 to 60 mph gust saturday
Hurricane chart (http://www.usatoday.com/weather/storms/hurricane/ghurricane_scale/flash.htm)
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It'll hit the coast and fizzle.
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heard if it continues to slow more models are projecting a more northernly course..into LA
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it will take quite alot of coast for that big ***** to "fizzle"
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Says it may still strengthen, wonder if it could hit 200
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Forecasts still calling for landfall near Matagorda. Cat 5 now but will drop back down on Friday the closer it gets to land. By the time it strikes according to NOAA it will likely be a medium Cat 4.
We are stocked and ready....only thing we didnt get that I overlooked were lantern mantles. Went to Walmart tonight thinking I might be able to find some. Heh....right. Walked thru the whole store just checking stuff out....not only did they not have any mantles, but the only canned goods they had left were cranberry sauce and spinach.....MMmmmmmm.
Got my sister out of Clear Lake today and she is with us out here on the NW side. We will most likely have winds of less than 85 mph and a lot of rain here.
All highways out of the city are parking lots at this point. I am supposed to work tomorrow but I will be damned if I am going to take 2 hours to get there.
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Originally posted by Meatwad
Just wondering, is there still a lot of NO evacuees in Houston? IF so, will they re-evacuate to............?
See, they shoulda did like I said and sent em to Nash's house:)
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Latest NOAA forecasts show a big shift to the East last night. Strike point is now on east side of Galveston and the bay. Which unfortunately means more storm surge and rain for New Orleans. Havent heard if they are still predicting it to lose strength on Friday though.
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on the radio this morning they are getting calls from people leaving Houston.... some people that left last night at 2AM, had only gone 100 miles by 8:30. they also said that 30 of those 100 miles had came in the last hour.
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I waited until today to start the "petroleum supply recovery" article I am working on, figuring that most of my contacts would have had time by now for things to settle down after katrian, have some time to speak and have at least some idea on refinery and pipeline recovery, local marketer/retailer recovery, etc.
Well, many contacts are based in Houston so they better be hauling out bellybutton of town and any revovery projections that would have been developed are out the ****ing windown right now. A lot of our non-Katrina impacted refining capacity in the Gulf is located in the anticipated path of Rita. If this thing doesn't do a 180 or drop three catagories in strenght it's going to be really really bad. In human terms, of course, as it would be if the hurricane hit anywhere on the seaboard. From an oil industry, debt and economy perspective... Let's hope for the best.
Charon
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Originally posted by NATEDOG
on the radio this morning they are getting calls from people leaving Houston.... some people that left last night at 2AM, had only gone 100 miles by 8:30. they also said that 30 of those 100 miles had came in the last hour.
Yeah...traffic is a nightmare. All roads going west and north are packed....not just the freeways. Even the major sidestreets and secondary roads are packed. I work 5 miles from home and it took me an hour to get home today. Now I get to finish clearing space in the garage for the cars and boarding the windows. Wheee......
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Originally posted by sling322
Yeah...traffic is a nightmare. All roads going west and north are packed....not just the freeways. Even the major sidestreets and secondary roads are packed. I work 5 miles from home and it took me an hour to get home today. Now I get to finish clearing space in the garage for the cars and boarding the windows. Wheee......
Am I misreading this or are you planning on staying and not evacuating?
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If you're heading north, take Hwy 6. From what I've heard it's the quick way out.
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Well I just had a scary 18 hours. Rita was behaving badly. I checked the satelite image after the eclipse (3am cdt), and Rita was turning north much sooner than expected. I had these terrible visions of it plowing right over or just to the west of New Orleans. Not to wish it on Texas, but we just cant take another one right now. It looks like its again heading for Houston- Lake Charles. Be careful Houston - prayers are with you - lets hope it continues to weaken.
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Yeah if your commin North hit Hwy 6. It was congested a lil in the morning at 2:30am. When I had to head north the traffic was bad but movement was a pretty constant 50-60.
When commin through B/CS and you need gas actualy try to come into town to get gas. The stations right along the HWY are running out and the ones in town actualy have gas. A few reports of some running out today but we do have a few small ones that still have plenty.
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People here are freaking out. We are northwest of DFW about 70 miles south of the Red River. They are predicting Rita may still be a Cat 1 when it reaches us, 250 miles north of the coast. We have never seen a hurricane here.
We got word this morning that our entire grocery order was cancelled. It comes out of Houston and they couldn't get the trucks out. They recalled the trucks that did make it out and locked down the warehouse. I had planned a 2 week order in anticipation of Rita, now we're screwed and so is every other independant grocer.
Between 4 and 7pm tonight we had a run on the store. People were buying everything in sight. WalMart ran out of bottled water and they hit us next. Luckily. I had ordered extra water after Katrina and they have'nt totally wipe us out, yet. Our canned goods are pretty beat up, but not completely wiped. I expect by Monday, we will be nearly bare thruout the store, depending on how severe the storm is.
TXU bought 100 bags of ice today for their work crews to use. That means they are anticipating lots of power outages. Besides the high wind, there will be LOTS of tornados here. They are the real danger.
This could get interesting...
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I was behind a couple of TXU employees this afternoon at Lowes in Hurst. They were buying 6 chainsaws along with gas cans, oil, and related accessories. They loaded them up in a TXU truck and took off.
Lowes and Home Depot don't have any portable generators either.
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Originally posted by rpm
I had planned a 2 week order in anticipation of Rita, now we're screwed and so is every other independant grocer.
Between 4 and 7pm tonight we had a run on the store. People were buying everything in sight. WalMart ran out of bottled water and they hit us next.
We are down here on Lake Tawakoni.
I thought we would go in this morning and sort of stock up on canned goods, bread, etc. I got tied up till around 10:00 or 10:30 this morning and finaly made it into town to the local Brookshires. There was at the most 2 to 3 parking spots in the entire lot that was empty. They had all checkout lines open and were stacked in line about 20 deep to a station. One grocery sore in this small town was allready closed.
RPM, aren`t you in the Whiskey Tall Falls area? :)
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About 1/2 way between there and Cowtown. Just watched David Finfrock, looks like it's heading more toward you. Good luck.
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does anyone here know if Katy is at risk? My 17 year old niece and her mom decided to stay after seeing the traffic jams leaving the area.
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Katy floods when it rains 6 inches. They will get about 12 - 18 inches. They should leave now.
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RPM how big of a store you got there?
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I'm the manager of IGA Foodliner in Decatur. Not sure exactly how many sqft the store is, something around 10-15,000. Matter of fact, I'm switching stores tomorrow and taking over our Jacksboro store. It's an old Gibson's we remodled and is roughly the same size, but is a much busier store without a WalMart right next door.
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Thats neat. I been working in grocery stores since I started. Wanted to get out of it but I am still there, just in a different store. So much for a career change, eh?
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anyone else seen those planes dropping gel from planes to absorb water along the coast? I think I heard them say the planned to drop on the center of the storm when it got closer to land, hoping to slow down winds by a little bit.
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Originally posted by rpm
About 1/2 way between there and Cowtown. Just watched David Finfrock, looks like it's heading more toward you. Good luck.
Yea, our main concern is the storms it will spawn and local supplies which are running a little thin allready.
Hard to believe that private citizens would stay in the Galveston, Houston coastal area.
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Originally posted by Jackal1
Am I misreading this or are you planning on staying and not evacuating?
Nope....not evacuating here. We are way out on the NW side of Houston anyway and this thing keeps shifting east. Still worried and being very cautious but staying put. If something very weird happens and it doesnt go the way the predictions are saying and it ends up growing rather than weakening by the time it hits the coast, we have a backup plan. Other than that, the windows are boarded, the pantry is stocked, the kegs are filled with fresh water, and the cars are in the garage......not much more to do at this point other than monitoring the weather reports and waiting.