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/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl General Category >> Rubber Side Down! >> Hurricane Rita /cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1127412829 Message started by RadarORiley on 09/22/05 at 11:13:49 |
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Title: Hurricane Rita Post by RadarORiley on 09/22/05 at 11:13:49 Do we have any members evacuating the Texas coast? |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by Savage_Rob on 09/22/05 at 11:23:35 I was wondering about that too. Diane, Reelthing, and Goose & Toadie are all in that area I think. |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by gazab44 on 09/22/05 at 11:23:43 I think there are a couple live in the area..Dianne and realthing GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by Karen627 on 09/22/05 at 11:41:16 Good luck and be safe. |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by PerrydaSavage on 09/23/05 at 00:41:07 :(2 "100 year storms" in 2 weeks?? Somethin' f__ked with the climate for sure ... God bless all those in harms way ... fingers crossed that this one isn't as bad as Katrina ... But I'll bet that the money/oil gougers will send gasoline prices thru the roof all over North Am. again after this one ... >:( |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by savage777 on 09/23/05 at 13:00:36 my sister lives on padre island in Texas. she was headed out as of yeastersay A.M |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by Mambo on 09/24/05 at 00:41:37 PerrydaSavage wrote:
I duno why people are unable to see this allready happens hundreds of times in earth's history... If you wana know what will happens, the t° will increase (a little) more, the most of ice @ north pole will melt, so the sea's salt % will dicrease, and the Gulfstream will stop. No Gulfstrem? No moderate climate on a third of the earth. No moderate climate? - > Ice age. So if the t° grow up, dont fear the heat: buy some wood ! |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by Colo_Hack on 09/24/05 at 03:47:52 Just that simple huh... You should have warned everyone weeks ago. I have family there and I'm heading that way right now to help where I can. If I can get some pics I'll upload them when I return. Hack |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by Reelthing on 09/25/05 at 03:15:02 Well, at least in my area(s) it worked out well. We headed down tuesday night to board up the beach house located at San Luis Pass bridge - west end of galveston island , load the boats on trailers and other toys in the trucks and drive inland to the house Katy, Texas - about 100mile drive - we pulled out at 3pm wednesday and made it in at 5am thursday - 15 hours to go 100 miles seemed slow - but in some areas folks were talking 15 hours to go 10 miles. Many cars broken down or out of gas all over the roads - when I got to Katy my brother-in-law had came over from around the Johnson space center area to weather the storm here. Late thursday his ex called and they could not get out of town as the roads were in gridlock - so over they came - his ex, 2 teenagers, and new husband - this made for an interesting mix - but I sure used the help to secure the place - in the driveway we had 2 boats (hulls filled with water for extra weight),3 trucks, a golfcart on the front porch, cars in the garage, which forced the 2 Savages into the house. No one had ever seen motorcyles in a house before - but hey they need a shelter too. In the end the storm turned away and all we had was 50-60 mph winds. |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by Savage_Rob on 09/25/05 at 07:11:45 I'm glad to hear it worked out so well. Here in Garland we didn't get a single drop of rain; just some high winds. Supposed to be 98 F again today. |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by RadarORiley on 09/25/05 at 11:24:44 We didn't get rain at either house, Weatherford or Lake Fork. The caretaker at Fork said the lake is full of boats, beautiful weather there. I for one am thankful this one tamed down and wasn't like Katrina. I'd much rather overact than complain that the "government" didn't act. I know evacuating was the pits, but would choose that any day over dying from stupidity. |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by Reelthing on 09/25/05 at 21:47:00 PerrydaSavage wrote:
what I'd like to say about this - refine all the gasoline you need local. At the moment the largest producer in North America perhaps the world is still shutdown along with 11 others. It's really not like you can flip a light switch to start and stop a plant like BP in Texas City or Shell in Deerpark - some may be back on line now or close to it - but none the less we had close to 40pct of all the gasoline production for the USA turned off for 2 days. We have not been able to build a new plant in over 20 years due to environ concerns - so I think we can solve this with a fed law - no interstate commerence of refined fuel products after 2010 - if you use it - make it - forget the smell and sight of the plants , forget if it might impact a blind cave fish or spotted owl with a chevron on the right wing tip - either build some plants in your state or use something else. |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by Savage_Rob on 09/26/05 at 07:22:55 Reelthing wrote:
That's a really good idea. It seems everyone wants to use the fuel but they want to pollute someone else's environment to get it. That would sure put a little more umph into developing cleaner refineries or alternate fuel sources. |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by RadarORiley on 09/27/05 at 14:02:02 While you're on your soapbox, I'd like to say "AMEN Brother" |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by PerrydaSavage on 09/27/05 at 15:13:35 Some Engineering Techs from the company I work for here in St. John's, Nfld. are being sent to New Orleans for 6 weeks to help out with re-establishing infrastructure. Read a theory once, that there's plenty of oil reserves left here in North America (particularly the U.S.), but the wells have been capped for future use ... the stategy, is to buy/use up foreign oil first?? |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by sluggo on 09/27/05 at 15:27:46 here, let me grab the soab box for a minute. i like the you burn it you refine it idea. my personal feelings are this. if the black gewww is so scarce, lets just suck it all up, make that gurgling sound as ya finishing the shake, and move the @$#$ along with something new. this whole oil thing reminds me of a line from a movie with george c scott. when told to blame the problem on the arabs, he replied "boy, we are the arabs" ;D i'm sure as time goes along, someone here will find a way to burn something else in our beloved machines. we'll pool together our resourses and be the next "new money" :-X |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by Reelthing on 09/27/05 at 16:19:26 PerrydaSavage wrote:
The theory sounds a bit off - the strategy (that I disagree with) is to use cheap oil first. There isn't much cheap oil left in the US say the likes of spindletop. We have had to keep going deeper and add in very expensive measures like co2 injection to bring up the pressure so the lifting costs are not so expensive. It wasn't very long ago when oil went under $12 - at that point a lot of striper wells were capped - the law reads you either pump a well or cap it - when the lifting cost plus the transport cost goes over it's value no one is going to pump it - so you cap it. |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by mikedasavage on 09/27/05 at 21:55:47 I dunno but dang its hot in austin texas. We had record days the last three days Sunday was like 110 yesterday was like 108 unbelievable heat there is no polar ice caps melting here thats for sure 8) but riding the scoot was no fun. Felt like someone opened the oven door and stuck a fan in it blowing straight at my face. I never thought that the riding in the wind could feel that bad. |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by Reelthing on 09/28/05 at 04:35:30 Here, too, this morning at 6am it's already >80 with a high headed to 100 - offshore water is still close to 90 -either some cold air drops down from the north to cool this water off or were going to run out of storm letters! |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by sluggo on 09/28/05 at 04:38:28 Reelthing wrote:
naw,,, there's still the greek alphabet. 8) |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by Reelthing on 09/28/05 at 05:30:37 That's quite true - I'd like to not have omega headed this way! |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by Mr 650 on 09/29/05 at 09:46:50 OK by me, there is a refinery the other side of MEM Itnl. As far as use it up and move to something else, well alcohol (loud gas) is good. IF fact I would take it a step futher; you make it, burn it and then have a forth position on your petc0ck that is for increasing the octane of your post-ride beverage. (I want to become "one" w/ my machine) :) The range on your full tank will drop about 1/2 unless you drink it all before you put it in. ;D ::) :P Lancer, We will need some loud gas carbs. ...But will electric airlines fly ? |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by larry on 09/30/05 at 12:55:16 this is goose forgot my password so not logged in. toadie and i rode the storm out at our home on lake livingston lots trees down around the house and in the subdivision but no damage to our home. lost power about 1 a.m. sat. regained power about 6:30 p.m. thurs. thanks for all of well wishes everyone came thru storm fine. |
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Title: Re: Hurricane Rita Post by Goose on 09/30/05 at 13:16:38 hah suddenly remeberd my password speaking of winds was told that a gust of wind during rit was measured at 119 mph across lake livingston. also was quite a mess on sunday and monday after the storm when they discoverd damage to the rip-rap that protects the earthern dam and had to drop the lake level a bunch to repair the damage. well the high levels of water in the river below the dam caused a work barge that was in the river doing repair work on the railroad bridge to come loose and hit the u.s. 59 bridge closing the highway north and south bound for about 24 hours before they could detrmine no damage done. |
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