Things suck in houston

[junction34]

Well things suck here in houston. The buick aint running right now so i am worried about her getting flooded out. Last night I waited 30 minutes to get gas because evryone is freaking out. All store are out of canned food and water and many are starting to evacuate. I hope things wont be that bad as they say they will be. I am only 19 and it took me six months to but this car and the guy only wanted fifteen hundred bucks. So if your hear sobbing comeing from the south thats a poor boy crying for his old junker that floated away in the rain.

 

[Nashty]

My brother lives in Richmond (Houston), is it that bad down there?

He has a GN, 68 Camaro, 442 and a Ranger truck in Victoria. Is it in danger?

 

[disco stu]

If it stays on it's current projected path, and if it maintains or keeps building strength, the Houston, Corpus Christi, and Galveston area is in risk of a hard hit.

I hope you Gulf boys pull through this alright, and take care.

 

[TR Custom Parts]

Cat 5 at this point. This stuff is getting old and I will NOT be complaining about any snow storms we may get this winter here in the NE. Hope all you guys down that way get the hell out of there before it hits.

 

[DCEPTCN]

Really, everyone- PLEASE evacuate, just in case.

 

[iamjeff]

bryan/college station is getting pretty overloaded with people from lousiana and houston/gulf area.

-jeff

 

[JDSfastGN]

I evacuated Galveston last night. Wanted to make sure i didn't get stuck in bad traffic in the GN. She was loaded down with all i could take from my apartment. I'm doubting Texas A&M Galveston will be there when i get back. Stay safe everybody

 

[2QUIK6]

They are saying on the local news that just about every hotel from the coast to the Oklahoma border is sold out.

 

[iamjeff]

i think it said on the news the other day that there were like 5.1 million people in the houston area. that is a lot of people to evacuate.

-Jeff

 

[UNGN]

i think it said on the news the other day that there were like 5.1 million people in the houston area. that is a lot of people to evacuate.

-Jeff

Houston is far enough inland that nobody should be evacuating from there (unless they live in a cardboard box). There is at least 500,000 on the coast that need to go, however, which is still a lot of people.

If it keeps tracking east, it may spare galveston from complete destruction.

If you have not put gas in your car, yet, I suggest everyone top off their tanks RIGHT NOW. 20% of the US refining cpacity is in the direct path of the storm (vs. 10% with katrina)

By Monday I suspect gas will be $.50 higher than it is today.

 

[2QUIK6]

I heard a blurb on the news that gas prices could spike as high as $5 a gallon if the Houston refineries were shut down for an extended amount of time. Houston is being evacuated because of the bayous and ship channels that go up to Houston are expected to flow backwards from the storm surge and flood Houston which is very flat and the soil is clay which does not soak up wtaer. They say the ship channels flood with only a modest thunderstorm usually. NASA has been evacuated and the space station control turned over to Russia as NASA is expected to be underwater with a storm surge could be up to 50'.

 

[Jerryl]

Click this link and then Click the "Watch live Coverage" link on the web page.
http://www.click2houston.com/index.html#

 

[JDSfastGN]

traffic has been horrible. Just imagine the scenes in independence Day where traffic is at a stand still.... now add 100* temps and cars running out of gas. Luckily it looks like its gonna miss us to the east.(not good for many, as tons of people evacuated to Beaumont and are sitting in traffic and now its heading there) I had to go into houston today to pick up my great aunt. Took 3.5 hours to get back to my parents place (70 miles west/north/west of houston. We were very lucky as my dad knew a ton of backroads and we bypassed about 10 hours of traffic or more on I10. I did see a very pretty GN, had a thin white pinstripe down the side with TT2s being towed behind a big RV at highway 6 and west airport this morning. Hope they get it out safe.