texas

The Jays · 09-23-2005, 12:11 AM

on somethingawful, people are hoping they don't cancel the Austin City Limits festival.

75 mph winds, outdoors, surrounded by tall fragile stage structures, with thousands of people. Sounds like a hoot! I certainly wouldn't want to evacuate!

The Jays · 09-23-2005, 05:25 AM

a well, coordinated, evacuation effort.

Quote:Traffic, taillights from Houston ...
The evacuation was a traffic nightmare, with red brakelights streaming out of Houston and its low-lying suburbs as far as the eye could see. Highways leading inland out of Houston, a metropolitan area of 4 million people about an hour’s drive from the shore, were clogged for up to 100 miles north of the city.

Drivers ran out of gas in 14-hour traffic jams or looked in vain for a place to stay as hotels filled up all the way to the Oklahoma and Arkansas line. Others got tired of waiting in traffic and turned around and went home.

Service stations reported running out of gasoline, and police officers along the highways carried gas to motorists whose tanks were on empty. Texas authorities also asked the Pentagon for help in getting gasoline to drivers stuck in traffic.

... into Louisiana
The traffic jam extended well into Louisiana, with Interstate 10 jammed from Lake Charles through Baton Rouge. State police said the biggest backups were at exits where cars stacked up in long lines of motorists trying to get gasoline.

Rather than sit in traffic, some people walked their dogs, got out to stretch or switch drivers, or lounged in the beds of pickup trucks. Fathers and sons played catch on freeway medians. Some walked from car to car, chatting with others.

With temperatures in the 90s, many cars were overheating, as were some tempers.

“I’ve been screaming in the car,” said Abbie Huckleby, who was trapped on Interstate 45 with her husband and two children as they tried to get from the Houston suburb of Katy to Dallas, about 250 miles away. “It’s not working. If I would have known it was this bad, I would have stayed at home and rode out the storm at home.”

Galt · 09-23-2005, 01:10 PM

everyone is going to be really pissed when this category 3 and its 90 MPH winds dampen Texas with 4 inches of rain.

Keyser Soze · 09-23-2005, 02:12 PM

bush causes traffic jams

Hoon · 09-23-2005, 02:57 PM

God:
Take all the minorities you want.
Just don't touch the refineries, please?

Your christian conservative friend,
Hoon.

HollywoodJewMoses · 09-23-2005, 03:21 PM

that was a good one by bush to set fires to buses

Hoon · 09-23-2005, 03:28 PM

I text messaged the White House, suggesting they force all the KFC's to stay open to help keep more negro's in harms way - but I only received an "LOL", back.

The Jays · 09-23-2005, 08:35 PM

Galt Wrote:everyone is going to be really pissed when this category 3 and its 90 MPH winds dampen Texas with 4 inches of rain.

how about 20 inches of rain, a 20 foot storm surge, tornadoes in Houston, and sustained winds of 75-90, with gusts over 100.

Galt · 09-23-2005, 08:46 PM

overblown

The Jays · 09-23-2005, 09:08 PM

you just love to wallow in ignorance

Galt · 09-23-2005, 09:53 PM

more death and inconvenience occured leaving the city than will occur from the actual hurricane. People are all freaked out because of Katrina and because the press wants some new big crisis to latch onto for ratings.

You've fallen into their trap.

The Jays · 09-23-2005, 09:56 PM

Destruction and mayhem, record traffic jams, extreme winds, tornadoes, hell yes, I'm a sucker for disaster!

Keyser Soze · 09-23-2005, 10:06 PM

the greatest thing that could ever happen to these people would for this to be a huge overblown media event. i hope galt is right, but i think jays is.

The Jays · 09-23-2005, 10:22 PM

Galt, do you realize that the lesson from Katrina is to ram the message about potentially destructive hurricanes into people's heads early enough to give them time to get the hell out? You talk about it being overblown, I guess you would rather they just mention it during the weather segments, and talk about only the best case scenarios, after all, there is so much other exciting news occuring in the world, such as the one game lead the New York Yankees have on the Boston Red Sox in the AL East.

Galt · 09-23-2005, 10:27 PM

My TV blew up last night, so I can't watch TV. So, yes. I am truly ignorant about this.

But c'mon, it's a category 3. Boo hoo. I can understand the initial reaction even if Katrina never occured. it was a category 5. Most powerful winds ever in the Gulf. Gonna hit the same town where the worst hurricane in US history hit. Sure. The hub-ub was completely warranted.....4 days ago

Add the Katrina disaster, and sure, press and public latch on and get all concerned.

But the thing has died down. It's a 3. Nothing major's going to happen. It will be no worse than the previous "major" hurricanes like Andrew and what-not. Hurricane Sleeper and Emily were both Category 3s when they hit the states this year. Katrina was nearly a 5 when it hit.

Hundreds of people aren't going to die. Billions of dollars of damage isn't going to happen. The press is continuing to worry everyone because that's what the press does.

Sucker.

Galt · 09-23-2005, 10:38 PM

I accept your point though Jay. it's better to be safe. Better to get people out of the city than have them drown.

It was warranted to get people out of the city. No one could have known the storm would have died down. But it's died down. Why is it still getting top billing on the news?

As for, the "lesson learned". Are you kidding? What more could the press do to scare people about natural disasters aside from preemtively predicting which individual citizens were going to die.

Every hurricane or snowstorm, the entire newscast is about how bad it's going to be. How much destruction is going to occur. How everyone and their mother should go and buy buy buy. Buy water, buy batteries, buy canned foods, buy anything you can imagine. It's like whoever does a better job at frightening the public is doing the best job / getting the best ratings.

The Jays · 09-23-2005, 10:45 PM

Galt Wrote:My TV blew up last night, so I can't watch TV. So, yes. I am truly ignorant about this.

But c'mon, it's a category 3. Boo hoo. I can understand the initial reaction even if Katrina never occured. it was a category 5. Most powerful winds ever in the Gulf. Gonna hit the same town where the worst hurricane in US history hit. Sure. The hub-ub was completely warranted.....4 days ago

Add the Katrina disaster, and sure, press and public latch on and get all concerned.

But the thing has died down. It's a 3. Nothing major's going to happen. It will be no worse than the previous "major" hurricanes like Andrew and what-not. Hurricane Sleeper and Emily were both Category 3s when they hit the states this year. Katrina was nearly a 5 when it hit.

Hundreds of people aren't going to die. Billions of dollars of damage isn't going to happen. The press is continuing to worry everyone because that's what the press does.

Sucker.

If you only depend on the televison for your news, your problem is worse than previously thought. I don't depend on news, I depend on weather services, and NOAA has found that the weakening trend is a result of its eye replacement, which is now complete. It can only get stronger as it reaches the coast, after which they predict it will stall over Texas.

You're also trying to say that this will be no worse than Hurricane Andrew, thus, billions of dollars worth of damage will not occur.

I would really like to see you make an attempt to sell me on that.

The Jays · 09-23-2005, 11:10 PM

Galt Wrote:It was warranted to get people out of the city. No one could have known the storm would have died down. But it's died down. Why is it still getting top billing on the news?

Well, for one thing, the only other news story besides Rita is a bus exploding killing 24 people.

Galt · 09-23-2005, 11:24 PM

Wrong. Tamryn Manning is still alive!

The Jays · 09-23-2005, 11:45 PM

And Hannity hasn't had the chance to jerkoff to Natalie Halloway in a while