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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 03:42 PM
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Texas DUers! Are you Ready?
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 03:44 PM
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1. Crap. No. Still can change direction.
:scared:

I'm getting new windows installed Wed. I wonder if we should postpone that.

:scared::scared:
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 04:03 PM
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11. I don't think it will be here by then. Get the windows. I bet they'll hold
Edited on Mon Sep-08-08 04:04 PM by Ilsa
up better than old ones.

If it gets here by Wed, then it won't be a strong hurricane. If it gets here over the weekend, it may have stronger winds.
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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 03:45 PM
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2. The blue line (The one in the middle) brings IKE straight to my house.
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TXN in WA Donating Member (72 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 03:47 PM
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3. Are you
in Missouri City/ Sugarland? I hope you avoid a direct hit. Good luck to you and babylonsister.
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KatyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 04:10 PM
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14. Yikes!
We're in Richmond. The past few storms and hurricanes didn't do much to us out here, but a direct hit would hurt...
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Gothmog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 05:24 PM
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25. I now live in RIchmond
I am more worried about flooding than anything else.
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 05:55 PM
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28. I'm in Missouri City /Sugarland
and I just booked my reservations for Austin today

going to keep an eye on it for tommorrow but I'm in a voluntary evacuation zone

the surge goes to Alvin and I'm real close
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 03:53 PM
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6. Yellow heads to mine
:scared:

Of course, I'm somewhat inland, so it won't be full-force by the time it hits me, but still pretty :scared: nonetheless.

dg
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 04:15 PM
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15. Hey, Wolvie! Long time, no see!
:hi:

This/next week could get interesting.
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 05:09 PM
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24. No kidding, sis!!
:hi:

How's by you?

dg
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 03:55 PM
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7. Vincardog, you are just up the road from me.
You can come down here if you want to to get out of the rain, which tends to be in the NE quadrant.

Of course, it may straight to our house, especially since hubby is out of state this week.

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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 04:09 PM
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13. Y'all might do better to come here. I have a 5 br house. Unfortunately I moved most of the furniture
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 06:25 PM
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33. yep, right after it drowns mine. Unless it poops out like one of the earlier ones
or veers off in a different direction
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texastoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 03:49 PM
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4. Might as well get ready
Not much you can do to make him turn around. Sigh.
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Uben Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 03:51 PM
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5. Hallelluyah!
Now T. Boone Pickens will have some wind to drive all those turbines he's puttin up!

I hope it blows every damned one of them down so he has to put them back up!
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 03:58 PM
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8. LOL. He'll make 'nuff 'lectrissty to run Texas for a year!
Edited on Mon Sep-08-08 03:59 PM by Ilsa
But really, if this hurricane parks its proverbial ass in the middle of the warm gulf for a few days, there'll be hell to pay around here.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 05:23 PM
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32. Wrong part of the State
Boone's turbines are located in the Panhandle. We won't be seeing any hurricane activity. We'll get a lot of rain - which is good, considering that what Boone really wants to do is drain the Ogallala Aquifer.
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dkofos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 04:01 PM
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9. I could use some rain. Gustav didn't give me any.
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Jazzgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 05:50 PM
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27. Raining here now.
In Arlington......
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 07:47 PM
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36. Rained here in San Antonio today. Nice downpour for a short time.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 04:02 PM
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10. Oh no. I hope we don't have to go stay with my Palin-loving mother-in-law.
Hubby may want to stay there just because she has a generator. I guess I should go look for one.
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texastoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 04:48 PM
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22. Hurry
And buy it on credit if you have to. Beats the alternative.
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 04:05 PM
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12. I'm far enough inland that it will be a TS before it reaches me. But,
a big shout out to my fellow Texas citizens along the Gulf Coast...STAY SAFE!

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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 04:15 PM
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16. This one is from the NAtional Hurricane Center:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT09/refresh/AL0908W5_sm2+gif/151330W_sm.gif

That landfall is about 30 miles up the road from me.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 04:36 PM
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17. CNN's map at link:
Galveston seems to be the bullseye here.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/09/08/hurricane.ike/index.html#cnnSTCOther1
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 04:43 PM
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20. Actually, that is pretty southwest of Galveston. The CNN link looks
like a hit to El Campo directly, maybe as far north as Wharton.

I'm glad it has slowed down to Cat 1. It could easily rebuild to 2 or 3 though over the next four days. Looks due to hit Saturday afternoon, ruin my college football viewing.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 04:48 PM
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23. If that's all it ruins, that's okay!
:)
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SteveM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 04:37 PM
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18. Austin may get some rain, but far more refugees...
Folks here did a good job housing Katrina refugees and will do so again; only there may be far more.

Some good news: from what I here, after a hurricane the red fishing is good on the lower coast!
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 04:45 PM
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21. Remember, they're not refugees. They're called evacuees.
:hi:
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SteveM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 05:45 PM
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26. I'll go with that, but they sure looked like refugees (nt)
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 05:57 PM
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29. I felt like a refugee driving 9 hours in 110 degree heat with
no airconditioning ...luckily I traveled most of it at night
no gas going bumper to bumper

it was HORRIBLE
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vanderBeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 04:39 PM
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19. Holy crap, that's heading right towards us.
I'm in Dallas, though, so probably just rain.
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 05:15 PM
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30. -Updated-
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MazeRat7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 05:16 PM
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31. Yup...we're gonna get wet. -nt
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Strelnikov_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 06:47 PM
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34. ..
http://www.stormpulse.com/hurricane-ike-2008
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Strelnikov_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 07:00 PM
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35. Forecast track for Rita at about the same stage
Edited on Tue Sep-09-08 07:01 PM by loindelrio
Look out Houston.
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