Cromagnum said:

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Yep. I'm filling up my gas before the Friday rush hour idiots catch wind of a track shift and lose their *****

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We're driving back from Amarillo tomorrow and I think I'm going to stop at the Buccees in Waller to fill up.

Stat Monitor Repairman said:

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For the benefit of folk that may be new.

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I was a teenager when rita came. We tried to leave and was in standstill traffic near liberty for hours. We decided to turn back and wait out the storm. It was a complete nothingburger where we lived (north shore). So i dont really have the storm anxiety. I live in Bryan now. Have a plan. Stick to it. Yall stay safe!

rancher1953 said:

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Lots of sites now saying ground zero is Port Lavaca and it will make landfall as a Cat 3. What will the next 24 hours bring?

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Crap, that would be ungood.

During Rita people bought up all the gas with 350 miles of Houston to the point there was no gas available for people to get home.

I'll take stock tomorrow when home, but may have to fight the masses of dumbasses on Sunday for food.

We still had lots of leftovers we put in the freezer, so between that and my lunch beans we could cook, we're probably okay, but I need to make sure.

Got plenty of booze always. It's kind of like water during hurricane season, you always keep it stalked up.

I got 300 gallons of propane, an outdoor kitchen, and a freezer full of meat. Might be hot in the house besides the one room we can cool with portable AC, but we still gone be eating good.

Wind speed prediction of the eyewall at landfall?

I'll say a high Cat 2, 110. Ike 2.0

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If #Beryl's mid-level and surface centers are collocated and actually about to exit the Yucatan, shelf waters there are relatively cool, so it will likely take a minute for Beryl to begin rebuilding an inner convective core. However, on the whole, seeing Beryl spend less time over land probably increases the odds of significant restrengthening over the Gulf of Mexico.

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If #Beryl's mid-level and surface centers are collocated and actually about to exit the Yucatan, shelf waters there are relatively cool, so it will likely take a minute for Beryl to begin rebuilding an inner convective core. However, on the whole, seeing Beryl spend less time… pic.twitter.com/Fp3k0aEpRE

— Dr. Levi Cowan (@TropicalTidbits) July 5, 2024

These are a lifesaver if the power ever goes out and you don't have a large enough genny to power the AC. Although we use ours all year long. It's like a thousand little angels blowing on your legs all night long helping to induce a great slumber.

Bedfan.com

Busy afternoon so I haven't been keeping up. Are we doomed yet?

Stat Monitor Repairman said:

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My old roommate was one of the idiots; except he drove FROM CS to Cypress, since his mom said she wanted him and his brother with her through the storm.

So he was one of like 5 cars the whole way going INTO town. Took him like a week to get back home, because of the cars, no gas and clogged roads.

~egon

Hurricane Watch for TX coast to Sargent

Bad Poster said:

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Stat Monitor Repairman said:

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For the benefit of folk that may be new.

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I was a teenager when rita came. We tried to leave and was in standstill traffic near liberty for hours. We decided to turn back and wait out the storm. It was a complete nothingburger where we lived (north shore). So i dont really have the storm anxiety. I live in Bryan now. Have a plan. Stick to it. Yall stay safe!

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I was in school at A&M at the time, living in Bryan, and there was a pretty big panic even there. Went to the grocery store just for normal shopping and had trouble getting what I needed. Ended up not even getting a drop of rain at the house I was in.

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One has to remember that was fresh off the heels of Katrina. Everyone was freakin out.

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Also pre-social media and pre-smartphone era.

People were on the road communicating via SMS ... "We've moved 1/10th of a mile in the past 3-hours." Now 20-years later people got the ability to live stream 4K video from their car.

We also looking at the total level of hysteria being amplified at light speed, see Covid.

During Rita it seem like the tipping point was when schools and employers started to cancel and send people home mid-day. Nobody knew what to do so people got in their car and started driving all at the same time.

As I recall emergency management pleaded with people that everyone north of Dick bayou stay put and allow costal dwellers to get north first.

As we saw, human nature took over and it was everyman for themselves. Mad Max on every road north out of Houston. Then what mad it even more ****ed was them reversing the traffic on all lanes going north. People tried to turn around and there was simply nowhere to go.

Complete gridlock.

Was wild to watch it all go down. Turned out texags was the best source of info as people were posting info they received by text from people out in it.

I remember riding four wheelers up and down hwy 36 in Bellville selling people who were in stand still traffic bags of ice cause my neighbors had a commercial ice machine in the garage. We may good money that weekend

I grew up in Angleton and remember the Rita evacuation. Dad worked at BASF and was on the storm crew so he stayed behind. I was probably 13ish and was so freaked out about the Katrina mess I thought I was never seeing my dad again.

It took us around 14 hours to get from Angleton to Katy. We said screw it and stayed at my grandparents place there (we had an extra key).

To this day I'll say those 14 hours on the road with panicked masses was probably more dangerous than the storm itself.

AustinCountyAg said:

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I remember riding four wheelers up and down hwy 36 in Bellville selling people who were in stand still traffic bags of ice cause my neighbors had a commercial ice machine in the garage. We may good money that weekend

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Price gougers!










j/k. I understand basic economics.

Costco still has generators for those in Houston. I got one just in case and will return either way.

Also will never forget that someone on here posted a link to a live stream of all 5 Houston news stations and CNN that would run simultaneously on one screen. Back in 05 this was some wizardry.

DDub74 said:

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Costco still has generators for those in Houston. I got one just in case and will return either way.

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FYI, you can run lights, tankless water heater, fridge/freezer and a window unit on a small inverter generator. Central HVAC is going to take a larger gen set. Harbor Freight has cheap Honda clones and is running a 4th of July sale.

Since we're sharing Rita stories, my best friend sent his wife and kids to Corsicana to stay with his sister, and I went over to his house to help him batten down the hatches, etc. and hunker down.

We went from rueing our decision on Wednesday (looked like we were going to get cornholed) to "maybe it won't be all that bad" on Thursday to "are we even going to get any rain?" on Friday. We got some occasional window-rattling wind, and there was one broken branch (about 3/4 inch in diameter) in the yard.

We did pre-emptively eat most of the frozen food, so it was like we got to be 7 years old again and eat bagel bites and popsicles, and his wife was ultimately grateful, but did not have anything good to say about the trip north, to say the least.

Rita was anticipated to come in at Matagorda and I lived in El Campo at the time. My husband is a DPS trooper and didn't want to worry about me while he was going to be out dealing with the hurricane fallout so he sent me to San Antonio with the dog. Took 14 hours, I nearly ran out of gas and ended up pulling out my Key Map book to find a way to somehow get past the crazy. After that I vowed never again, unless I was living on the coast itself. I still have PTSD from that evac.

When Ike came we were in cypress with no kids and just rode it out, which is what I imagine we'll do from now on.

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Lord have mercy.

I was part of a 20 person group that was going to Dallas to run operations from Houston. 4 of us made it and had to work 18 hours a day 3-4 days until they could move phones back to Houston