Hurricane Rita

[CP18]

Guys, I am witnessing all of this first hand! I live right off of I-45 in Huntsville and the chaos is nuts. People running out of gas, staying on the side of the road, the lines for gas go on for blocks, if there is gas. McDonalds ran out of burgers, people have no where to go. I let a family use my house to go to the bathroom, get some water, let the kids run around etc and they told me it was the first time they had been out of their car in 20 hours, and they were just escaping the south side of Houston, only 80 some miles from me!

Unbelievable, thoughts and prayers everyone!

[Rob Graff]

My Mom lives in the Woodlands, and I've not been able to call her for the last two days - what's up with the phone system? I could call NY on 9/11!

Anyway, she's decided to ride it out at home, as a veteran of a few LI hurricanes gave her too much courage. If it's bad, I may be visiting y'all next week to help her get on her feet again.

I'm hoping though that the current track which puts houston on the "west" side of the hurricane (less intense) will hold and thus she will be fine.

Good luck to all.

Rob

[Sonny]

Fellas,

Please discuss Hurricane Rita in the existing thread in the Water Cooler:
http://forums.uslia.com/viewtopic.php?t=2512

No need to start another thread on the same topic. Thanks.

[Tarzan]

Get ready for more...your cell phone hard to use yet. Had to teach my mom to text message last night....quite a challenge! We got up to recognizing/reading messages and then she had to stop....saving sending for another day. She still had a message from my brother in Baton Rouge sent on Sept 2nd. We had been trying to get in touch with him and he send her the message, but she never knew!

I am starting to worry about Lake Charles, LA. Big LNG port there...Natural gas prices will go up impacting many industries! Industrial canal leaking and is getting worse in New Orleans/ St Bernard:

http://www.nola.com/t-p/?/t-p/stories/f ... aphic.html