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[surf]

after reading about what seems to be shock and disbelief that a hurricane could do the damage it did plus the inconveniences that some are going through on texags, exactly how often do you guys get slammed by hurricanes? out here, we've been hit at least one good one a year since i've lived here (about 20 years). we know what's going to happen power wise and make arrangements accordingly. this thing seems to have caught a bunch of people out there completely off guard and some act like this is the first one they've ever been through. i don't seem to remember many in the gulf until around the year before katrina. it's always been us and florida who got slammed as far as i can remember. is this correct or have i not been paying enough attention to what goes on out there with the hurricanes?

[surf]

btw. this doesn't have to do with anything any of you have said

[BYU Born (roveram)]

I'm 5 hours north and thought I would be fine. Got caught with my dick in my hand Sat. at 6:00p. I had 1 candle, a cell phone and a dog. Packed my bag Sun. morning and was on my way to OK or AR. Then the power flickered back on.

[surf]

that far inland is understandable. have you seen what that fucking storm is doing up in the midwest? i'm referring to all the ones who are shocked that are from the houston area

[jasonbaconAg91]

definitely a rare year as far as landfalling hurricanes along the texas coast ( 3 + gustav was really close and probably affected the southeast coast of texas)..... that might have something to do with the un-preparedness (crying wolf syndrome).... you tell people to evacuate enough times when the storm turns away or heads to mexico and people will stop listening to you....and then, BAM, the one that you really should have gotten out for hits and you are either too late to get out in time or are trapped with no way to get out and are forced to ride it out.... JMO


hottie for the displaced!!!!!!

[Tex Pete]

(crying wolf syndrome)....

I think that's a lot of it. Carryover, especially from Rita.

Plus, the Texas coast is really big. The southern coast can get hit, and it won't affect the northern part in the least and vice versa.

[T-Bird01]

surf - you gotta understand that Houston is a good hour away from the coast. I don't think anyone here expected to be without power for 3+ days, especially with how big and well equipped that Houston is. Not to mention that Rita was way overblown (and was a cat 4 at one point) and did very minimal damage, and Gustav was barely a blip on the radar. During the beginning part of the week, the storm was predicted to hit Corpus, so when it began to shift towards Galveston many were not prepared (IMO that still doesn't excuse the people who decided to ride it out in Galveston when there was a mandatory evacuation ordered since Wednesday). This storm was underestimated by almost all of Houston, as noted by the long lines at the gas stations that were open, grocery stores, restaurants, etc. Just driving through the Heights area I was real surprised at how many huge ass trees were uprooted and just snapped.

I am now glad that I decided to get the fuck out of there yesterday morning. I was pretty lucky, as I was really only had to go for a little while w/o power. Saturday a friend over in the Heights area had power, so we went over there all day and were able to watch a few games, then went over to another buddy's house who had a generator that he was running his TV, fridge, and a window unit off of. Stayed the night there, woke up to flooding, went and checked on my place and said fuck this. I think if I would have been at my place by myself w/o shit to do I would have lost my fucking mind by now. Supposedly only 20% of Houston has power currently. Luckily a cool front blew through late last night, and it has been in the upper 70s today. If it was as hot/humid as it usually is, with people running out of water and ice, we would have likely seen several die of heat exhaustion. Also, many have been w/o water since Friday so that is probably getting to them as well. A case or 2 of water between a family goes pretty damn quickly when it's hot as balls outside.

Edited by T-Bird01, 15 September 2008 - 04:20 PM.

[T-Bird01]

Also this did much more damage than Alicia and Alison that came through the area years ago and those were considered to be very bad storms. Ike probably did the damage that a Cat 5 would have done anywhere else.

[houstontexan]

i think everyone's been prepared, moreso than usual.

galveston is literally almost off the fuckin' map and the houston looks like a war zone in general.

cat 2 doesn't do this storm justice. had there not been evacs, you'd be seeing hundreds, if not thousands dead.

[BQ_90]

25 years since we've seen something like this in Houston. Seems to me in the 80s we got Hurricane or at least tropical depressions every year. We just knew we would be out of power for few days. Plus I don't now how many thousands of people have moved to the area since that last one or have ever been through a hurricane.

I really don't understand all the power outage issues. For work today I drove from Hempstead down Huffmister and 290 over through Tomball, then to Conroe, up to Willis, then over through Montgomery and Magnolia back to Hempstead. No power anywhere but Hempstead and Magnolia. Magnolia gets power from a different grid.

There is damage but not major lines down or poles down like I would expect with this kinda power outage. Something about a main station over near Sabine got taken out and 2 power stations off line.

[T-Bird01]

The Centerpoint guy was just on and he said they've got people coming in from 25 different states and Canada to help. Said 500,000 people have power, but still 1.5 million without it. Hopefully they get this shit all fixed tomorrow with all of the extra help they've got coming in.

[surf]

there were convoys of duke power trucks heading west on I-85 on saturday. dunno if they'll make it that far but they were heading where the hurricane struck. they always send crews to where ever the damage is. i know a couple of guys who used to work for them. they loved it cause they got paid like a motherfucker to fix that shit. volunteered every time when a cane hit. they were in florida and then went to NOLA for katrina. duke power is the shit when it comes to repairing damaged lines and shit from the hurricanes. if you see any of them be sure to thank them for their hard work

[surf]

oh if i can find it online, they are about to skull fuck a ton of gas stations out here for price gouging. they nailed one in raleigh for trying to charge $12/gal last friday. gov easley made it loud and clear after katrina that he wouldn't show leniency to anyone caught gouging and he made several statements about it last week before the storm hit. shit was one of the top stories today so i should be able to find it

[AggieJen02]

not to diminish the impact of the storms that hit the east coast, but i was watching one news station that was chronicling the difference between east coast hurricanes and gulf coast hurricanes. he mentioned that east coast hurricanes move much faster and tend to die out much quicker, while gulf coast hurricanes move much slower. therefore, much more time to build up strength over the warm gulf water, and much longer time over land dumping a shitload of rain. that may be why you're hearing so much more about the storms hitting in the gulf. not necessarily that there are more of them than usual, but that they're causing so much more damage. and after katrina, the media is really playing it up.

[surf]

he mentioned that east coast hurricanes move much faster and tend to die out much quicker

charlotte would beg to differ. go look up the track hugo took. that shit hit around florida and was still a cat 2 i think when it got to charlotte. totally wrecked that place and tore up shit way up north. fran and bertha did major damage inland as well. when they hit, we get fucking rocked way inland. like inland as far as winston salem which is like 4 hours from the coast. the ones that tore up florida the other year fucked this place up too and they, like hugo, tracked across land the whole way up from florida. they thing that's helped us out lately is that they have been tracking into the gulf and hitting you guys. we're overdue for a major cane to roll through - been that way for a couple of years now. what keeps them from running all the way through to the midwest here is the appalachian mountains. those mountains are also why we don't get the snow tenn gets and also why it doesn't get that cold here in the winters too. they tear up most fronts that drop in from the north. your weather guy needs to go look up the canes that's rolled through here the last 15 years and see the damage they did and how far they came inland before getting fucked up by the 'mountains' here. every time one comes through, the entire east coast of the state gets flooded out so bad they usually have to shut down I-40 in raleigh and I-95 through out the whole state

*they call them mountains here. tacking said they were fucking hills compared to the rockies

[surf]

this is why i was thinking you guys hadn't really gotten a lot of hurricanes until recent years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Texas_hurricanes

this is what we've had in the same span

http://en.wikipedia.....2%80%93present)



pretty wild when you look at a list of the total storms that hit or affected each state

[BQ_90]

Hugo was a muthafucker, Andrew topped it only because it hit florida and louisiana.

They all are a fucking bitch.

Just spoke with my brother, he's ready to kill centerpoint. He said they haven't seen a truck. Their zi is 77379 the biggest zip out of power.

[surf]

reading that wiki, i seem to have forgotten floyd somehow. i still don't remember it. berth cut topsail island in 2. fran flooded the whole eastern part of the state and ripped up raleigh. hugo kicked charlotte's ass and then fucked us up pretty good too. had another one that was really big and ran up the eastern part but didn't even get windy or rain here. fucked them up really bad though. stragest one cause it was on a direct path here until it hit land and veered really hard to the east

[AggieJen02]

77379...is that spring?

[BQ_90]

77379...is that spring?

yes, my brother lives in Kleinwood, the whole Cypresswood area is dark, most of Louetta, 1960. They got Willowbrook powered up and stopped right there.

[T-Bird01]

charlotte would beg to differ. go look up the track hugo took. that shit hit around florida and was still a cat 2 i think when it got to charlotte. totally wrecked that place and tore up shit way up north. fran and bertha did major damage inland as well. when they hit, we get fucking rocked way inland. like inland as far as winston salem which is like 4 hours from the coast. the ones that tore up florida the other year fucked this place up too and they, like hugo, tracked across land the whole way up from florida. they thing that's helped us out lately is that they have been tracking into the gulf and hitting you guys. we're overdue for a major cane to roll through - been that way for a couple of years now. what keeps them from running all the way through to the midwest here is the appalachian mountains. those mountains are also why we don't get the snow tenn gets and also why it doesn't get that cold here in the winters too. they tear up most fronts that drop in from the north. your weather guy needs to go look up the canes that's rolled through here the last 15 years and see the damage they did and how far they came inland before getting fucked up by the 'mountains' here. every time one comes through, the entire east coast of the state gets flooded out so bad they usually have to shut down I-40 in raleigh and I-95 through out the whole state

*they call them mountains here. tacking said they were fucking hills compared to the rockies

Another thing you have to remember is the size of Ike. That motherfucker was huge, which is why about 95% of HTine was without power.

[AggieJen02]

i used to live off louetta and kuykendahl. thought the zip code sounded familiar. i've lived in way too many places in the last 10 years.