Do we have any members evacuating the Texas coast?

I think there are a couple live in the area..Dianne and realthing GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL

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 ...  

PerrydaSavage wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:09:
The climate f*** itself...
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 !

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.

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.

Reelthing wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:09:

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.

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??