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Nutria welcome back and congrats on staying dry. Glad you aren't one of the 1000's of nutria they are finding washed up all over the coast.

We still have a lot of college and church groups that come down here and help rebuild houses and clean up. I was on the plane with a church group from Ohio a few weeks ago.

Jo I knew you were kidding but talking about chainsaws is fun.

I know one year I bowhunted the morning a storm came in. Bow season doesn't start until October so we aren't completely out of the woods yet.
 
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I think Ike will be a four by breakfast, and that it will be closer to Houston than the NHC is saying.

I hope we don't get to see the type of panic that we saw the last time Houston evacuated, but I think that when they get up for work tomorrow and hear the morning news, all Hell will break lose.
 
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Gatorubet;1255550; said:
I think Ike will be a four by breakfast, and that it will be closer to Houston than the NHC is saying.
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Hopefully that thing stays a good way south of La before hitting Texas.
I damn sure don't want that thing pushing any water up this way. I don't know what kind of shape Gustav left our levees in.
 
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Houston-Galveston could face major damage from Ike - Yahoo! News
Houston-Galveston could face major damage from Ike

HOUSTON - Gleaming skyscrapers, the nation's biggest refinery and NASA's Johnson Space Center lie in areas that could be vulnerable to wind and damaging floodwaters if Hurricane Ike crashes ashore as a major hurricane.

Forecasters expect the storm to make landfall this weekend somewhere between Corpus Christi and Houston, creating the potential for heavy punishment for Houston even if it's not hit directly.

Some forecasts say Ike could strengthen to a fearsome Category 4 hurricane with winds of at least 131 mph over the Gulf of Mexico, and emergency officials warned it could drive a storm surge as high as 18 feet.

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Evacuation of Harris' elderly, disabled starts slow | Front page | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Throughout Harris County, more than 14,000 people in Harris
County had registered for transportation assistance through
3-1-1. That includes 2,617 people with health issues that
would probably require an ambulance to move them.

Those just realizing they needed a ride out were told today
to call Houston's 3-1-1 system. But by 1 p.m. Houston's
Metro transit system had yet to receive the names of those
in need of a ride.
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And so it begins...
 
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People in Houston seem very calm about this storm. Maybe with all the hype about rita, they aren't taking this seriously. But if current forecasts come true, downtown Houston will be slammed by winds close to 90-100 mph. That would be a disaster the size of which would rival Katrina!
 
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TGfan06;1256418; said:
People in Houston seem very calm about this storm. Maybe with all the hype about rita, they aren't taking this seriously. But if current forecasts come true, downtown Houston will be slammed by winds close to 90-100 mph. That would be a disaster the size of which would rival Katrina!
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People are funny. I cannot tell you the number of people who said to me that if Ike came here they would stay. The financial and emotional drain of evacuating is something you have to experience. The paper had a story about all of the people who suddenly have thrombosis and leg pain and swelling coming into hospitals from 15-20 hour rides on crowded roads.

People are scared and exhausted.

In Houston, the Rita experience was so God awful bad, that most say that they will ride it out rather than evacuate. I hope it goes South, but I still see Houston getting it bad. I only hope the odd combo of low pressure and uncharacteristically low winds continues.
 
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Gatorubet;1256431; said:
People are funny. I cannot tell you the number of people who said to me that if Ike came here they would stay. The financial and emotional drain of evacuating is something you have to experience. The paper had a story about all of the people who suddenly have thrombosis and leg pain and swelling coming into hospitals from 15-20 hour rides on crowded roads.

People are scared and exhausted.

In Houston, the Rita experience was so God awful bad, that most say that they will ride it out rather than evacuate. I hope it goes South, but I still see Houston getting it bad. I only hope the odd combo of low pressure and uncharacteristically low winds continues.
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Well as far as I can tell the west side of the storm is becoming much more healthy and a new eye is forming with great convection all around. So if Ike is ever going to start strengthening, this 8pm update will be the one
 
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Can't say that I see this kind of ominous prediction often (if ever)...

ALL NEIGHBORHOODS...AND POSSIBLY ENTIRE COASTAL COMMUNITIES...
WILL BE INUNDATED DURING THE PERIOD OF PEAK STORM TIDE. PERSONS
NOT HEEDING EVACUATION ORDERS IN SINGLE FAMILY ONE OR TWO STORY
HOMES WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH. MANY RESIDENCES OF AVERAGE
CONSTRUCTION DIRECTLY ON THE COAST WILL BE DESTROYED. WIDESPREAD
AND DEVASTATING PERSONAL PROPERTY DAMAGE IS LIKELY ELSEWHERE.
VEHICLES LEFT BEHIND WILL LIKELY BE SWEPT AWAY. NUMEROUS ROADS
WILL BE SWAMPED...SOME MAY BE WASHED AWAY BY THE WATER. ENTIRE
FLOOD PRONE COASTAL COMMUNITIES WILL BE CUTOFF. WATER LEVELS MAY
EXCEED 9 FEET FOR MORE THAN A MILE INLAND. COASTAL RESIDENTS IN
MULTI-STORY FACILITIES RISK BEING CUTOFF. CONDITIONS WILL BE
WORSENED BY BATTERING WAVES. SUCH WAVES WILL EXACERBATE PROPERTY
DAMAGE...WITH MASSIVE DESTRUCTION OF HOMES...INCLUDING THOSE OF
BLOCK CONSTRUCTION. DAMAGE FROM BEACH EROSION COULD TAKE YEARS TO
REPAIR.
National Weather Service Watch Warning Advisory Summary
 
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