shai Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Remember how people were wondering how well we could handle another disaster? They should have a chance to find out. Sorry, guys. Get the fuck out...for real. Whatever it takes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AREANKAY Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 in all seriousness mother earth is giving us a big whats up now bitches. fuck with me basicly and this is what will happen. BRING IT ON!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shape1369 Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Rediculousness... I am at school in Massachussetts, but I am from Houston. All of my family and friends are scrambling right now to figure out their shit. Half are splittin for San antonio or laredo, but some are goin to Dallas, or staying in Houston. Its weird to not be able to get in contact with family and friends at home. I remember telling seldoon good luck on his trip to NO to find out about his fam, and I remember thinking how fucked up it would be for me in that situation, and here we are. This is gonna have such large implications. Fuck whatcha heard bout gas price rise cus of Katrina. Houston is the largest source of knowledge and industry in petroleum and oil imoprt into the US. Expect some crazy shit to happen. This entire hurricane season has been so awesome in its scope of power. My mom and stepdad were in cancuun on vacation when it was struck by a category four earlier in the season. As I was leaving for school, Katrina was up and coming. Then this occurs. Crazy shit. Mad fucked up and worried Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fermentor666 Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 That's one big fucking hurricane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Element 518 Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 I bet Bush will have relief down there within hours, compared to days, since a hurricane is about to rip through the ranch down in good ol' Texas. godspeed and godbless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fermentor666 Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 I bet that if the relief effort is well done, he'll use it as a way to put the blame on Lousiana locals for Katrina. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GnomeToys Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Bingo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteOx Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Is texas dead yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty_habiT Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 You people are fucking idiots. Bush's ranch isn't anywhere close to the coast line, it's gonna be just fine. "Oh yeah Bush is gonna have Texas well protected, wouldn't want to fuck Texas up..." Sound like fucking idiots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted September 22, 2005 Author Share Posted September 22, 2005 yes, but bush most definitely knows he cannot fuck this one up too. i don't care for texas either, but it sucks for the people that live there. Intense hurricane cycle predicted Scientists fear 'a catastrophe waiting to happen' Friday, July 20, 2001 Although government scientists still predict a mild hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean this summer, they said today a new intense hurricane cycle has started that is "a catastrophe waiting to happen." Scientists are tracking a warming of North Atlantic sea surface temperatures and a decrease in vertical wind shear, a natural ocean cycle called the Atlantic Multidecadal Mode that helps cause atmospheric changes that influence the development of hurricanes. "The data suggest that we are in the beginning of a warm Atlantic phase," said Alberto M. Mestas-Nunez, a physical oceanographer at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's marine institute at the University of Miami. "And thus an active Atlantic hurricane era may be under way, similar to that last seen from the late 1920s to the late 1960s." Stanley Goldenberg, a research meteorologist at oceanographic agency's Hurricane Research Division, put it in starker terms: "Every person should take every hurricane season seriously, but we're watching a catastrophe waiting to happen." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty_habiT Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Well, that's nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poop Man Bob Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 From the Houston Chronicle's blog on Rita. Read the article re: the "worst-case scenario:" The current track for Rita is just about as bad as you could imagine for the Houston-Galveston area. Unless the storm turns south or north in the next 24 to 48 hours we are set up for a truly horrific event. I am not going to sugar-coast this, my friends. If the storm comes ashore as forecast, it would essentially be the worst-case scenario described here. As a Houston resident and property owner, I am truly mortified right now. If you are under a mandatory evacuation order, you should heed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poop Man Bob Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 This sucks. I lived in Houston for 22 years. While previously I've had to ditch my car on the median of Westheimer to wade through waist-deep water (2001), this will likely be much worse. At least people are leaving: That's I-10 at 1:30 a.m., central time. People are getting the f' out except for those three cars heading the wrong direction. I just read that they re-routed all Houston freeways so they're only going outbound - both sides. Hopefully that'll clear some of the congestion. I heard last night that it took someone 10 hours to get from Houston to Austin, when that trip normally takes 2.5 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Tesseract Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Yo PMB, good luck homie..this is fucked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FRANKY JONES Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 everyone better go put as much gas in their car today as can fit in the tank....rumors up here already talking about hitting 4 dollars a g.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILOTSMYBRAIN Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 probably closer to 5. after this shit happens i wish everyone luck filling their tanks week in and week out, especially you guys with SUV's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatalist Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 getting out is almost impossible! earlier this morning: tons of people are running out of gas, and the gas stations along the freeway are out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shameless self promotion Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatalist Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saraday Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 well, the projected path is turning more east.. this storm is MASSIVE.. i just talked to my mom.. being that we're on the bad side (east) of the storm, we're thinking of evacuating somewhere in mississippi.. natchez or something. *sigh* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauler5150 Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 This is fucked up. I hope all you guys make it through this. And that the fuel supply don't get any more fucked up. Ya all should move to Australia 'the lucky country'. We never have this sorta shit happen here (well not in Perth anyway). Even though sometimes I wish it did so that then I would have coastal land. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poop Man Bob Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 http://traffic.houstontranstar.org/cameras/ -- Houston-area traffic cameras. Wifey just sent me this email: theyre showing the traffic in houston on the national news. one lady is talking about how she just turned around b/c she left her house 8 hours ago and had gone TEN MILES. she gave up and decided that she was just going to risk staying at home. holy crap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poop Man Bob Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Thanks for the pictures, fatalist. Are those all yours? Are you out of town and safe now? Where abouts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatalist Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 yeah i took the pictures this morning i got up extremely early to help a friend find food because hes bunkering down in his house. Im somewhat out of the way but unfortunately i couldn't get out of town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poop Man Bob Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Latest predictions have it making landfall around Beaumont or the TX/LA border. Louisiana is going to get fucked again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty_habiT Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 That traffic is ridiculous... and that running out of gas is even more ridiculous. What are those people supposed to do, I bet that has alot to do with the traffic not moving is people running out of gas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted September 22, 2005 Author Share Posted September 22, 2005 downgraded to category four Hurricane Rita, now a category 4 storm as the storm, has featured a slow rise in pressure. It continues to be a very dangerous storm, however. Rita is forecast to continue on a west-northwestward track through the Gulf of Mexico over the next 8-12 hours. A turn toward the northwest is anticipated Friday. If there is any good news at this point, it is the fact that the hurricane probably reached its peak intensity overnight. Rita may now be entraining some drier mid-level air from over the western Gulf of Mexico and Texas into its western side, causing the slight decrease in wind speed and increase in pressure. Rita should still make landfall as a large, intense, major hurricane with impacts extending well away from the center. Hurricane force winds extend 75 miles away from the center and tropical storm force winds extend 160 miles from the center. Landfall is possible early Saturday along the Texas or southwest Louisiana coast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatalist Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Texas is asking the pentagon to bring gas for cars. damn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shape1369 Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 I just wanna say good luck to all my family and friends at home in Houston. PMB, Fatalist, and from what it seemed like Tease, good luck you guys. Ive lived in texas all my life, and mostly in our around Houston. I am having a really hard time from being up here in the north and catching only snippets. I to some extent wish i were home just to make sure my family is ok. I think one of the brighter ideas is what I heard from my father this morning. He said they are headin out southbond first then go in east and head north. It seems like that might be a faster way to get north than taking 45 north or I10 east. Just thought Id put that out there for those that might be tryin to figure how to get out. If one were to head to Laredo, they would probably only be facing a tropical storm by the time it reaches there. Stay safe everyone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Quickwood Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 will gas go up enough to warrant filling the gas cans? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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