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well, now hurricane Rita is a catagory FIVE! it isnt expected to hit until saturday, so pretty much the evacs. arn't really much safer here, except that Dallas, Houston and all those areas wont flood...
EDIT:: woops, forgot to put the link in.. tee hee.. silly me.. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9389157/

Yeah, I heard after Katrina that the peak for hurricanes was between the '30s and '50s, but it's pretty seldom that we get to the Rs, I would imagine, so taking it by individual years, I wouldn't know.

But what are we doing debating global warming? They're evacuating Houston now, and we shouldn't risk closing this thread.

Tharkun, I agree. I was watching the news last night and it was so sad. They started out evacuating people from nursing homes, and some of the people had been evacuated from Katrina, sent to Texas to be safe and now are being evacuated again. Imagine being elderly with probably health issues being uprooted and moved from pillar to post and the stress on their bodies and minds. And the people who'd been allowed back to their homes (to see if anything's left) in New Orleans have to leave again.

As of right now 1.3 million people in Texas and Louisianna are under mandatory evacuation. Houston, they're scrambling to get out, traffic is massive, they're running out of gas there's so many people trying to get out. Galveston has 15 to 17 storm surge seawalls, but they're expecting at least a 30 foot storm surge. It's also an island and is now almost completely deserted except for emergency people - and they're expected to have to leave.

Galveston already has been destroyed once by a hurricane (in 1900) and had to be rebuilt.

Category 5 - this is truly scary. They've said that it's expected that it will go back to a Cat 4 when it hits land, that just being over land as opposed to water will weaken it a little. But still, another Cat 4?!

I'm keeping my fingers and toes crossed for anyone and everyone with this new one coming. More of Louisianna could be hit, along with re-flooding of what's already been flooded and just starting to dry out.

Homeland Security people (why Homeland Security is there is beyond me) were pulled from New Orleans and sent to Texas already waiting for this one, which is good, but it slows the recovery/rebuild to at least withstand this new one down where it's desperately needed. The people working in New Orleans are trying frantically to get things done, but have said that the levees will not, at this point, hold if they get even a portion of the hurricane.

I'm surprised they haven't started a contraflow on the heavily populated (is that the right word? o_o) roads...people are STILL waiting, and at 8am, people would stopped. We have Channel 2 from Texas on (you can watch most of the stations online) and they said it wasn't bad enough for contraflow. What do you call people moving 23 miles every 16 hours?! A walk in the park?! o_o



You too, eh? FEMA belongs there.

EDIT - They're working on a contraflow for the Katy Parkway. It's locked down, so they're gonna be happy when they contraflow it.

For the first time EVER Houston has been under volentary evacuation, and parts of it are under mandatory evacuation. They're working on getting the contraflow thing goin. I haven't seen the news in a few hours so the might have it going by now.

We have KHOU on right now. They're showing a interstate (I don't know which one, although I think it's the Katy Parkway) and as far as they're going, it's backed-up, but nothing on the other side.

The contraflow HAS been set up, but for some reason no one's going that way.

ABC said that I-45 was going contaflow, but that was the easiest because of the construction already going on there.

Ah.

I may be stupid asking this but you're from Texas, correct? If so, what part? My dad lived in Corpus Christi back in the 70s (I probably just told on how old my dad is ), and I listen to a radio station in Houston on my satellite (Sky Angel).

I'm 30 miles west of Houston. My dad has gone through many a hurricane and he knows what to do. We just got done putting up wood on the windows, its a lot cooler in my house now They now have contra-flow on I-10. It sounds like after its little drop in speed, its gaining speed back up and might be a cat 5 when it hits.

uhm... i live a little east of Dallas/ Fort Worth in a city no one has ever heard of and never will... Hurricane Rita is the third worst hurricane recorded since forever, at one point the winds where up to 200+ but its died down now, im still not taking any chances because our school has given up on tests this friday because they need to prepare, and my city expects around 75+ (i think i read it in the newspaper or something) winds, so it could knock over a tree in the schoolyard and then hopefully they wil cancel school for that day...

Right now im at the library and i shouldnt be typing this loud.. but too bad for them, i have my head phones on, the "sound blocking" ones, and i can hear this kid all the way across the library...

Anyway, we havn't prepaired at all, no windows blocked up or anything because our area is only expecting 4-6 inches of rain... but still, when i get home on friday im going to fill up the bathtub and the sink.. but i might fill teh bathtub half full half empty so if a tornado hits i'll be ready....

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Holy crud. Not again. Hello $4.00 a gallon in SC. n_n

Atleast you guys didn't get hit. I'd be angry though after waiting that long to get out of Texas.

... ok. I live in south Florida so I think it's safe to say that I'm a bit of a hurricane aficionado by now. 75mph will shake your trees but unless those are some weak trees I doubt they'll knock down. Not unless something heavy flies into it.

Nor would I think school would be cancelled for a down tree. During Frances last year my school had some trees split in half and fall and we went back to school the next day, the areas around those trees was just roped off.

Actually today is friday and it should be getting ashore tonight, so i dont know...and a downed tree as in it falls like.. into the doors..and the doors get crushed...

And what are the chances of a tree falling and happening to crush a door o_o. If you're getting cat 1/tropical storm force winds I think you'll be fine so don't get your hopes up for no school. Besides you shouldn't hope for no school because you'll probably end up maknig up whatever you missed. The county to my north lost a month of school last year because of the hurricanes and they got a month off summer.

In parts of Eastern Canada (places around Toronto), prices have gone up to 189.9¢ to 201.1¢/L, from what I saw on the news. And to think roughly a year ago it was around 80 cents per litre. For you US people out there, that's $6.16 to $6.53/gallon. Eep. Luckily I live in the west.

Anyway, I heard this morning that New Orleans was flooding again (levees broke again because of the wind and rain) even though the hurricane hasn't made it to shore yet. Hopefully it won't be too bad for any place by the time it actually hits land. >_<

To anyone around the hurricane's path, good luck and stay safe.