Rita

My Niece came up on Wed. Left Manville (SE of Houston) at noon got to the location of the F-1 watching party 9 hours later.

 

I assume this will be a "Race Day Decision" ?

 

I'm thinking the same thing.

 

Dont know about yawl but I'm gatherin up the livestock, lashin togeather the barrels and puttin the powder in kegs and a corkin en up real good.

 

i think the media is partly feeding the hysteria. SA seems pretty calm so far where i have seen. There are spot shortages in the grocery stores of stuff like water. All of the hotels are full. The riverwalk was hoppin' tonight

Friend of mine from S. Houston said 5 hours to travel 40 miles yesterday.

Good luck to everyone

 

Rush hour on 635 at 9pm last night?

I think Houston has now moved to Dallas.

 

A friend's brother left Houston at 3:30 am Wed and in 15 hours made Conroe. Turned around and went home, and this morning made it further in 30 minutes than he did in 10 hours yesterday. Maybe the gridlock is getting better. After my daughter's 6 hour drive to Austin Tuesday afternoon, her boyfriend took 12 hours to get from Houston to Austin yesterday. What a frustrating mess!

 

After trading messages with our gracious host.... It's ON! Unless of course there is some dramatic bad turn in the weather at his location... or a reception problem.

 

From what my friend Tony says (he's in Houston). The traffic where he is is horrendous (sp?). People are running out of gas on the highway in the traffic jam so if movement occurs it gets further F-d up cuz the cars are out of gas or broken down.

On the news they just showed that they had shut down 45 for hours!!! A bus carrying elderly burst into flames. Rescuers were pulling people off, but they believe some of the people had oxygen tanks, which began exploading. They believe as many as 20 people died. Very sad. This has made a traffic jam from Dallas to Houston. Unreal!

 

Shiners do you mean with a "bock" attached to the end of the word?

Good luck to you all out there!
Were all thinking about you guys.

 

Are there buses to evacuate the poor?

I dont have a TV yet in my new place, so I get all my news from the most reliable source...F-Chat.

 

"Bock" is just one type of Shiner. It is my favorite though.

 

I45 north near the woodlands is flowing good now, really not much traffic at all..

 

With the levee's breaking in N.O. again, I think that's sign enough to not rebuild. Sorry to those of you who call it home and would continue to, but I just don't think it's a smart idea now.

 

anybody stayed back to watch rita ?????????

 

I know, I like Shiner Blonde best.

Reason I asked was that I was just checking to see if you were a beer in the morning kinda guy. That is what I like Saturday mornings!

 

According to the latest path the eye is headed directly toward my lake house in East Texas. The storm is supposed to stall in the area between Tyler and Texarkana...that's me! This should be interesting, just glad I dont live there.

Note to self for next week:
call the tree guy
call the roofer
call the window guy
call the boat dealer because I cant find mine

 

glad to read some of you still have a sense of humor about you. us Georgia folks will keep ya's in our prayers. all joking aside, i wish you all the best. Michael

 

So what are things like in Houston atm? How long till the worst of the storm hits the city?

 

Just East of Sabine Pass, Texas said to be point of landfall. Smack dab on border between Texas & Louisiana - down to a Three, but, damn...

 

Was Katrina a Cat 4 when it hit the coast?

 

Yes - Katrina hit as a Cat 4 - This site is by an interesting person