Re: O/T: Gustav
- From: Scott Zrubek <scottz@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:20:04 -0500
In article <hyduk.20895$89.7749@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Leon" <removespamlcb11211@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Scott Zrubek" <scottz@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:scottz-12E7E7.08421930082008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <W75uk.72$sq3.46@trnddc07>,
"Lew Hodgett" <lewhodgett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Looks like this puppy is going to be a big one.
Looks like any body from New Orleans to Houston is a possible
candidate for a front row seat at the upcoming event.
You people take care of you and yours.
Lew
Yeah. The waiting's the hardest part.
I feel it's still too early to make a call to get out of Houston. N.O.,
I'd be boarded up and heading to higher ground.
I wanted, because of my Rita experience, to be gone 72 ahead of
landfall. It looks like we won't know where it's going until it clears
Cuba.
Fortunately when we exited for Rita we were about 15 minutes in front of the
crowd and had a place to go to. We were at our getaway location 80 miles
away 2 hours after we left.
I seriously doubt that we will ever see an evacuation like that again,
2,000,000 + people trying to get out of town. The biggest flaw with that
many people leaving is that San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Austin,
Dallas/FortWorth and all the small towns in between cannot handle a sudden
population increase of the magnitude. One of the reasons for the long
bumper to bumper lines was that the people had no destination that could
accommodate them.
I personally blame Neil Frank being way over excited and feeding off the
chance that he would be in the middle of a major hurricane. Call it
hurricane envy if you will. His predictions and sensationalism of "what
was absolutely going to happen" was reckless. For years and years
reasonable forecasters have always indicated that hurricanes are
unpredictable and hard to forecast days in advance as to where they would
be. Neil Frank had his viewers believing that he absolutely knew the exact
location that the hurricane would hit and that Houston's damages would be
"devastating" from the moment that the storm became a tropical storm in the
Atlantic.
A fact that the Houston weather guys don't mention is that for every 10
miles inland that you are the winds diminish 5-7% from what they are at the
coast line IIRC. If Galveston is getting 150 mph winds, Houston will get
about 105-120 mph winds.
I made it to 290 and Hwy 6 after 15 hours of driving. I was at 1/8 of a
tank and no gas in sight. I turned around and went back into town. I
was in a relatively safe spot in 10 minutes.
Looks like I'll board up windows in the morning.
.
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