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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: mikewsnc on September 20, 2005, 04:10:13 am
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Ok everyone I will be gone for awhile. I live in lake jackson texas right beside freeport texas. This is the most likly target for Rita. Wensday night I will choose to leave or stay. If you guys see that this storm is hitting freeport Texas and cat 3 or worse then keep me in your thoughts....
Aranis
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Good luck!
Hope you stay high and (relatively) dry!
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Wow what is this like the 6th hurrican in the gulf in the past year? You must hate life by now...
Build a new house BAM hurricane knocks it down again.
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Best choice if you can... leave. No need to put yourself in anymore danger then you can handle. Hopefully the Hurricane does not strengthen as much as it could...
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I would take everything more valuable and run away too. And I don\'t get why
anyone wants to go back to the New Orlean...all stuff there were either
flooded or robbed, better to get started in some place which not lays below
the sea...
Regards.
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Well me my wife and kids are packed and leaving today. As most of you know Rita is cat 3 soon to be cat 4 so we are not even thinking of staying. Hopefully I will see you all soon. Who knows anything at this point though. Anyone else on these boards in southeast texas who are having to leave.....good luck.
Aranis
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Its best that you will be safe. Hopefully everyone in harms way will also get that chance to leave.. and they take it. Look forward to talking with you soon..
BTW if they ask you where you want to go to.. Come on to Kansas.. I own a house :P
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Best wishes from old Europe (if you can read this).
If not, good luck with the rebuilding ...
(Somehow I\'m glad we don\'t have those freaking hurricanes, only floods from time to time.)
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Originally posted by Rolf Blacksmith
Best wishes from old Europe (if you can read this).
If not, good luck with the rebuilding ...
(Somehow I\'m glad we don\'t have those freaking hurricanes, only floods from time to time.)
Im glad I have none of those except earthquakes...
and how much can that do to my lil old 1 story house. :P
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It\'s just gone to cat 5.... really not good. I hope that this won\'t be a disaster like Katrina.
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Originally posted by Xordan
It\'s just gone to cat 5.... really not good. I hope that this won\'t be a disaster like Katrina.
Wow how ironic, katrina is the second worst storm in us history and ritas about to blow it away. Either way its not going to be as bad as new orleans. Dumbasses built a city 130ft belows sea level....
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What storm was worse in US history? Certainly not Hurricane Andrew or that other from like 30 years ago. Neither rivaled Katrina in deaths, damage costs, or overall destruction nor power afaik... but if I\'m wrong tell me - I\'m not contradicting, just curious.
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New Orleans was a bit stupid bulding the town, i am lucky to live in australia i guess but still i hope you will be safe and live on to tell the tale, New Orleans is pretty stuffed at the moment though..1 huge hurricane and another huge tropical storm coming, they should;ve built that 7m wall
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I may end up having to evac as well, it is seriously doubtful but we\'ll see.
Isn\'t Venge around the houston area?
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im also in houston but were staying, so wish us luck, iv got mixed feelings about the two days off of school though, and also the news just said ritas the 3rd most powerful out of all that have been recorded, isnt it fun being part of history :P
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Originally posted by smoak
im also in houston but were staying, so wish us luck, iv got mixed feelings about the two days off of school though, and also the news just said ritas the 3rd most powerful out of all that have been recorded, isnt it fun being part of history :P
heh, umm good luck not getting flodded and stuff
and ya the whole 3rd strongest this is pretty shocking...
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As of now, which has become my usual browsing time, Rita is ranked at 5 with winds at 175Mph. You and all those in the area are difinatly in my thoughts.
If you want to keep up to date and are out of the usual weather loop you can go here and update at will.
http://www.weatherunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at200518.html
The visible map is nice to look at...in a sick sort of way.
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So its headed for new orleans again... That poor cities going to be the next atlantis by the time this is over...
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I do so hope there is no one left in the path of that beast. If you are, please be as safe as you can.
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Hey everyone. Just droping in a report. I left my city and evacuated to my mom in law in northwest luisiana. Well the dang storm followed me. We had 80 mph wind which wasnt so bad but we also had many tornados. Several people around where I was staying including the same street, they lost everything. A tree in the driveway of the house I was in fell on the house nextdoor. Could have went either way, I am just glad no one was in that house at the time. Trying to go to the store the next day was an adventure of its own. I waited in line for an hour outside the store as police monitored everyone who came in and out. No ice no electricity no water trees all over the roads and floods everywhere. If I had stayed home everything would have been fine. My house had one tree fall and saw no rain just wind.
That does it for this report. Hopefully this is the worst hurricane season we see for a long time but I would not count on that. Good luck to everyone affected, I feel extremly lucky to still have my home and my kids.
Aranis
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Crap, hit quote instead of edit. That my second accisental double post in a day >_< ignore this please. :)
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Originally posted by mikewsnc
Hey everyone. Just droping in a report. I left my city and evacuated to my mom in law in northwest luisiana. Well the dang storm followed me. We had 80 mph wind which wasnt so bad but we also had many tornados. Several people around where I was staying including the same street, they lost everything. A tree in the driveway of the house I was in fell on the house nextdoor. Could have went either way, I am just glad no one was in that house at the time. Trying to go to the store the next day was an adventure of its own. I waited in line for an hour outside the store as police monitored everyone who came in and out. No ice no electricity no water trees all over the roads and floods everywhere. If I had stayed home everything would have been fine. My house had one tree fall and saw no rain just wind.
That does it for this report. Hopefully this is the worst hurricane season we see for a long time but I would not count on that. Good luck to everyone affected, I feel extremly lucky to still have my home and my kids.
Aranis
Its nice to see you\'re ok man. Thank God that rita didnt cause as much damage as katrina did.
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I had to evacuate as well, thisis my first day of internet since i\'ve returned. I\'m in northwest houston so i\'d imagine i\'m of the first group of returners, and man.. you will not beleive the horrows of the highways... we had a motor home so we were more lucky than most, additionally, we had our own house out of town :\\ butthere were thousands of people who were jsu stranded in place.. we stayed at a wal-mart parking lot, which reminded me of the movie Independance day, when everyone stayed at area 51; there were literally hundreds of people there, most sleeping in their cars, many had blankets out on the grass b/c of the heat(and it was damn hot)
anyways I\'m back, safe and sound, good luck to those who have yet to return.
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Oh I can vouche for the highway horror you speak of. We ran out of gas just north of clevland. There were probly 50 vehicles standed on a 20 mile strech from clevland to lufkin. We stayed with our cars for hours and got lucky there was a guy going around selling gas. True it was $25.00 for 5 gallons but well worth it. I just feel bad for the people who lost there homes there because of flooding from the dams.
Aranis
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Originally posted by mikewsnc
We stayed with our cars for hours and got lucky there was a guy going around selling gas. True it was $25.00 for 5 gallons but well worth it.
Aranis
Wow what a smart guy! Remind me to do that next time theres somthing major here. :D
Though it kinda sucks charging people money when they might have lost all they had...
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Originally posted by mikewsnc
We stayed with our cars for hours and got lucky there was a guy going around selling gas. True it was $25.00 for 5 gallons but well worth it.
A little over half of what we pay here in europe.
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Glad to hear you made it through all right Aranis. Which part of NE LA you go to? It puts you close to me.