paul_TX

Welcome to the DFW area! Hopefully you'll be on the "good side" of the Metroplex (not Dallas!)

Celtic_Angel

Have you been a naughty boy then?? mwhahahaha!

Celtic_Angel

Surfside beach? I'm in S.W Houston so it looks like you're much closer to the coast than I am.....are you planning on leaving in the next day or so? Right now they really don't have a clue how Rita is going to strengthen or where she's headed

it seems were all a bit jittery after what's happened to poor New Orleans.....after talking to friends who were here during Allison...I'm not so worried about the direct effect of a hurricane but rather the flooding that may follow :scared:

snowbunny

High ground.... don't go into basements or into elevators.

You could ride it out at mine, what the hey.

scrubbedexpat097

I guess we will decide tonight what we are going to do. We said if it was a 2 or less we would ride it out but after N.O. it does make you more jittery. We have flooded before from tropical storms but I'm not sure if I want to be sitting on my roof this time (thats if I have a roof left to sit on!)

Celtic_Angel

that's very kind of you ...I might just have to take up the offer

now Rita is a category 4 :scared: Galveston is facing mandatory evacuation...so sugarmooma is definitly on the move..stay safe girl!!!

I'm definitly happier up intil late last night my husband was out in the Gulf...thankfully they evacuated with plenty of time to spare...

cindyabs

Yeah, just called a client who's in Houston for business to see if he wants to change his flight and come back earlier than Friday. I don't want him stranded.

dbark

My SIL, who lives in Houston, is driving to us in Arkansas today to avoid Rita. We've had Katrina refugees in town but they are slowly going back, except for the ones who have decided it's so nice here they want to stay!

Celtic_Angel

whereabouts in Houston is your SIL from? our only family is in Missouri...seems a bit drastic to head there..........I'm gonna stay glued to the set....i don't want to end up waiting last minute and getting stranded in huge traffic jams....those poor NO evacuees having to be moved yet again!

cindyabs

Back when they hac evac here for Floyd in '99 there were people who sat on the beltway road going out of Savannah for 4 hours!! They were all trying to go north. I went west-had no problem at all.

dbark

She lives in west Houston. But I think she likes an excuse to come and see family - it's also a company car, company pays gas, etc etc! She'll probably take a few vacation days and go back after the weekend.

rincewind

And there was me thinking that TV was going to be boring this weekend after Bill Maher on Friday night.

Now I have devastation, gas hikes, gas rage, political tripe and looting to watch on the news.

I'm off to stock up on pop-corn before it costs me $12 to drive to the local grocery store.

cabritpop

Must have been a pretty big concert then?

Webbie

What is it with these women ?
First Katrina wipes out New Orleans and then her sister Rita heads for Galveston - and Houston, where some of the NO evacuated went - is in the pathway.



Three day track:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...tml?3day?large

KarnalEcho

Hey thanks for that tracker thingy.

Better hang on to your tail feathers Syllk

Aside of that I hope it keeps on going long enough to wipe out my X