Stuff be coming my way... everyone's evacuating.

If something should happen to me, I bequeath the site to Lord Dexter - take care of it Tony, I loved it like a son.

Ahh yes, one of the things I like about West Texas... no silly hurricane things! You guys get hurricanes, we get a little rain to make the mesquite and cactii greener!

---Jamin

We don't get those nasty hurricanes here either, whew. BTW, just where do you evacuate to? Do you plan on visiting Jamin??

Y'all take care down there and keep us posted if possible!!

Auntie M, Auntie M.

Oh wait...that's a tornado.

Stay safe

repeat after me:

I'll be fine, I'll be having dinner with nav at the end of the month.

repeat as many times as necessary.

I'll be fine after having dinner with nav at the end of the month.

I'll be fine after having dinner with nav at the end of the month.

I'll be fine after having dinner with nav at the end of the month.

it's not helping yet

oh yeah, it went to a category 4 hurricane with max sustained winds of 135 mph, they say it may reach a cat 5 by tomorrow when it makes landfall

Oh my God

Just... don't get hurt, Allen

I've been through a few hurricanes when I lived in Florida, including Andrew.

Stay in your cellar or your bathroom and you'll be fine.

if winds go over 150mph I think I'll be spending lots of time in the bathroom

I did Gloria, Bob, and Andrew in a tractor trailer.

I remember hiding out in the bunk of my truck from Andrew with the whole unit parked inside a truck wash facility that a friend of mine owned. Scary. I spent half the time relieved that I was in a building, and half the night scared that the building was going to come down on me and my truck.

Bob was easier. I just parked in a truck stop and slept it off. When it cleared my truck and I went to the beach. On my desk I have a picture of me and a big ole Peterbilt just getting some rays on the beach after the storm.

Gloria was the worst for me. I got caught on Long Island, empty and headed home when the storm caught up to me. Coming over the Throggs Neck Bridge the wind pushed me almost off the bridge. The wind was rocking the truck so hard that at times all the weheels were not on the ground. I had never before been so scared. I was just helpless. I never should have been on that bridge in that weather in the first place but the thought of being trapped only 3 hours from home made me keep driving. What a mistake. Then I got lucky. Another trucker who had a full load and was 40k lbs heavier than I was saw what I was going through and pulled up next to me on the windward side. Together we crept over the top of the bridge and down the other side.

I never got a chance to meet the guy or buy him a cup of coffee in thanks. Coming out of the toll booths he beared left to head south on 95 while I went to the right and north for home. I never saw his face as he always had the cab of his truck just a bit too far ahead of me to see him or her. I often wonder what he or she was thinking at the time. Or if it was just coincidence and the guy never even realized what he was doing for me.

Oh, your funny AA.

Hope you don't get hurt, you don't deserve it.

and here I thought the beds in the trucks were too small even for sleeping!

It's angling away from us and headed more to Louisiana. We'll still be getting lots of wind and rain, but more like 70mph and not 170.

"I'll be fine after having dinner with nav at the end of the month."

Each time i read this subject i hear that song in my head... heh..

Hope nothing happens.

and here I thought the beds in the trucks were too small even for sleeping!<hr /></blockquote>LMFAO

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just so ya know.

Anyways, I wanted to add that I hope everything went well for ya.

we got a good bit of wind and a little rain, but things weren't bad at all.. thank you

Hurrah!

City officials just announced the official Houston 2005 Hurricane Evacuation Plan:

• Hispanics use I-10 West to San Antonio
• Cajuns use I-10 East to Lafayette
• Rednecks use 59 North to East Texas
• Republicans fly Continental to Washington DC
• Yankees use 45 South to Galveston
• Longhorns use 290 West to Austin
• Aggies use 610 Loop

Hurricane Rita has reached Cat5 status and we may be directly in her path - we'll know more in the next 24-48 hours. Currently they are pointing it southwest of us, meaning we'll be getting the bad side of it with rain and wind. We may be heading north sometime tomorrow if they call for a mandatory evacuation.





If something happens to me, I'm bequeathing the site to gizzy this time - he has time to work on it

Sweet! I win! lol... Wait, I'm not even an admin yet.. ...

But on a serious note, I do have nothing but time

HURRICANE RITA BECOMES THE 3rd MOST INTENSE HURRICANE
The pressure in dangerous hurricane Rita fell to 898 mb making Rita the 3rd most intense hurricane in the Atlantic basin. Katrina is now the 5th most intense at 902 mb behind Allen. Gilbert at 888 mb and the 1935 storm at 892 mb are the top two storms.


www.accuweather.com



The angle has been adjusted a bit our direction

If you where closer I'd offer you my guest room lol...

thank you.

Looks like it has angled even more our direction, they've called for a mandatory evacuation. We'll be putting plywood on the the windows today and heading out - not sure where yet.

You're still welcome to use my guest room :-x

Total Est. Time: 34 hours, 26 minutes
Total Est. Distance: 2370.88 miles

Long drive, hope you get good gas mileage lol...

So you're trying to tell us that you're the 4th most intense hurricane in the Atlantic basin?

---Jamin

yeh man, allen is just that hardcore...

Spent the day boarding up windows at 3 homes - temperature 100+ all day - I musta drank 2-3 gallons of fluid and still cramp everywhere.

Rita has turned a bit more north and looks to be heading straight here now. We'll be headed out shortly as soon as I get a shower. Traffic on the highway is a parking lot and has been all day. We're hoping it will thin out a bit tonight, but if nothing else at least it will be about 20-25 degrees cooler.

I think we'll plan on coming back if they let us Sunday night.

Good luck!

Good luck and stay safe!

Stay safe Allen!

Thank you guys. We went to my bro-in-law's home in pensacola florida - smooth light traffic the whole way. Hurrican Katrina has done a job on the landscape in Mississippi tho My wife's family headed north towards dallas and traffic is gridlocked there, no gas to be had and people are being stuck out on the highway.

Rita is headed straight for my hometown now, should be there tonight. Good timing on the escape, tho we drove all night. I'm headed to bed :zzz:

They keep showing video all around my house, but stay 2 blocks away Pretty good amount of damage, but it looks like places that never boarded up their windows. I imagine if something happened to the house they'd have it on there by now, you got to go down my street to get to some of the places they are showing.

Very thankful we headed to Pensacola when we did o/

They're not letting anyone back in yet, maybe tomorrow, probably Monday or Tuesday - lots of powerlines down across streets, windows blown out, awnings out in the street, trees everywhere, emergency services are down to barebones while trying to dig out, etc.

Here's some cool satellite (and other) pictures of Rita:

http://www.brianrobak.com/rita.html

They're talking now like it might be 2 weeks before power is back on in the city So much was supposed to have started on Monday with work, now we're put off until who knows when.

At least Geraldo is pronouncing the area locations right now

Glad to hear you guys made it out ok. Hopefully all your stuff is in good shape.

Thank you, there's some minor damage to the house, major to all the trees. I can see why they're saying 3-4 weeks + before they can let people back in the city - *every* block of *every* street has power lines down, trees ripped up and dropped everywhere, some homes have trees through them, etc.

There's convoys of huge tree service trucks going out every day to begin clearing streets so that EMS can get through if neede