Hey Joel
 

Guess you better get the heck outta your area. Land fall in distance, just minutes
from you.

Good Luck buddy.

Hey Glen
 

I got my mother and sister out early this morning. My other sister who lives here left a few hours later. I am buttoning up everything at my moms house. Everything at my moms is good...........but I have a few things to do yet at my place.

Lauren, Brigid and Katie are staying with their disabled uncle and other grandmother who are just a couple of blocks away. That is why I am leaning towards staying. They are in a single story ranch style with a generator so are in fairly good shape.

We can survive a 17 foot storm surge with our levee system.

If I do wind up staying..........I am not staying at my house.............it is too rickety..............but my moms is ok. It and we survived Alicia and Carla. Please say a few prayers for us on the Gulf Coast of Tx. Galveston is expected to get tides up to 18 feet.

We would greatly appreciate it.

Will try and keep you up to date.

Joel

Good luck, Joel!

Good luck dude.... i feel your pain.

Thanks All
 

I just finished boarding up my Moms windows...............I have to pick up my laundry from my house.


I just checked in on my daughters and they are ok. Lauren and Brigid live in the NW side of Houston and they decided to be down here helping their grandmother, mother, and uncle. That may not be a horrible thing watching the storm track........The track puts the eys right over their house or just to the west.

We in Galveston County are hoping that this storm will track a bit west............but do not wish to have it on any one.

Joel

BTW Glen
 

No Tree Trimming for you!!!!!

Joel

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/HURRLOOPS/gulfvs.html

I'm no meteorologist, but an hour or so ago, it looked like Ike took a slight turn to the North as if it was heading toward Lake Charles. But with these things, you never know, these are so big, they sometimes make a lot of slight turns and end up going right where predicted.

Good luck to all on the gulf.

Mike,
I hope you are more right than all the info we are still getting here. Lake
Charles has not even been mentioned here.

Joel,
Prayers to you, yours, and all in the path of this thing. It is currently bigger than
Rita, the one that left me homeless way up in Woodville. I just finished my house.

Steven, [CNB],
Duck you Sucker. Guess I won't see you this weekend, although I have
not heard from the TD:D

Well, McNeese State has cancelled, not moved up, everything.

Like I said, it was just slight, but you never know with these things. They can accuarately predict a lot of things, but Mother Nature isn't one of them.

Good Luck to you and everyone else in the path!!

I just moved to Pearland, TX from Charlotte. My wife and 2 girls and I left this afternoon and are staying in Dallas (so my wife can work out of the law firms office there). Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone in the path. Hunker down and be safe.

Jeff Merriman

Here in Tyler county, we just received a manadatory evacuation notice, as did Jasper, Newton.
These are the counties hit so hard by Rita. The water surge is now predicted to reach the
20' mark. Most levies in say Port Arthur, Nederland, Beaumont are about 12-15 foot.

Woodville is located 60 miles south of Beaumont.

Probably regret it, but I am staying. Generator working, got beer, chips, coffee and ice.
Even got some water. :D

Once again, Good Luck to all from New Orleans, La. to Brownsville, Tex., and upperwards
as it advances. Winds are suppose to be less than Rita. Rita winds here were at 105.

Later.

Do you folks down in southeast Texas cancel your tournaments just because of a little wind and rain? :D

Well, everytime we have tried it, the pitchers complain that their not getting the
calls on the big breaking cruves.:D

Yeah and the curve balls must be tough, too!:rolleyes:

Thanks for spelling correct.

I am watching the waves already tearing Galveston up, so not really watching
the fat fingers.

This thing [IKE] has really grown and widened. Police where knocking on
doors at 3AM in the morning in Bridge City, Orange, Port Arthur, Port Neches,
Groves and Beaumont. One of the umpires just called, had intented on
staying, said he is headed for La.
Yea, right.

Just watching Channel 2 out of Houston online, and it really looks like this one is going to be a doozy. Galveston already has some flooding, and we are still 12 or more hours away from projected landfall.

Batton down the hatches!

Oh...and for those elsewhere in the world who want to watch:http://www.click2houston.com/video/10903347/index.html

I was thinking the same thing. And as a long-time resident of the TX Panhandle, I do NOT understand all the hubbub about the wind.

(For those not familiar with TX Panhandle, the constant wind makes THE tree bend toward the NE.)

As long as no HS football games get cancelled, things will be just fine. :eek:

Maybe we are just old school. The tournament I was supposed to be working in North Texas was cancelled yesterday, and I have yet to see a measurable amount of rain.

Yeah, but this is Ike and we all know how Ike just couldn't help to beat up on his woman. :D

Are you calling TX a woman? Dem's fightin' words...

Please note the names of the storms cited ;)

well, we made it through (my hair has that nice wind blown look!! :eek: )..... I wonder how bad the ball fields in lake charles, westlake, moss bluff and beaumont got tore up? and I still havent heard back from Rodney if the camp in houston was still gonna make.

Cajun Blue

What Rodney are you referring to in Houston? Is he an umpire? I might know who you are referring to> Any chance his last name begins with S?

Ron

I can't even imagine what you guys must be going through down there or the magnitude of that storm at landfall. I'm a thousand miles away from where Ike hit Texas and we got walloped yesterday!

The remnants of Ike blew through Ohio yesterday and the winds still packed a punch. 80 m.p.h. gusts knocked out power to a half-million customers, ripped off roofs and downed tress throughout the area. And the center of the storm was a couple hundred miles north of us!

My yard is littered with debris and fallen branches. Sections of my neighbors six foot wooden fence were knocked down and a gate was ripped away from my fence.

Surprisingly, we were far enough away from the center that little rain fell- just a few sprinkles. It isn't uncommon for hurricanes to come inland, then stall out over the midwest, staying in one place and dumping rain for several days.

Nope... it begins with a R I got to call on the same complex with him and his wife in Florida this summer.

OK,

I am back. Elec came back 7:00 am today.

Three trees down, nothing major to the new house. Had to replace two
sheets of the metal roofing, and a piece of my fireplace chimmey.

Got almost all the trees in front cleaned up, so things picking up.

MRE's have improved since I was in the military.

Hope everyone else got through IKE OK.

He was referring to Roth, but by now sure that has been clarified.

Good to hear you made it through better than the last time.

I guess you are now gonna use those three trees and build another room?

Hope all get back to normal soon.

MRE's? What about C-Rats?

Glad you're OK!

Thanks for all the kind thoughts and prayers from everyone..........!!!!!

My mother got back power this afternoon............a little over 7-1/2 days after she lost it. It will be another week or two for me as I lost my service drop from a big pecan limb falling down. Single point connections are always the last to be reconnected. Luckily........no damage to my meter, service can, weather head....etc......

I have cleaned up about 95% of my mom's place and about 80% of mine.

I did get everything out of both refrigerators and freezers before they got bad.

My oldest two daughters live on the north side of Houston and fared well even though they rode out the storm with their Mom at her mothers house here in Texas City.

Unfortunately.............all the structures outside of our levee system inside TC were destroyed...........but our levee did a good job and there was very little flooding within it.

My house is at 6.5 feet above sea level and my mothers is at 7.2. with our pumps and the levee (22 feet), we were very fortunate.

Thanks again for all the thoughts and prayers and thank you Glen for starting this thread. It has been a rough week..........but there are other people out there in our area that have it worse.

Thanks to all...............

Joel

Same thing, much improved, each package has a self heating unit to heat the
main course. High proteen stuff to keep the troops going.

No free cigarettes in these though. :)

Glad everything worked out Joel. Got 90% of my trees cleaned up and 80% of
the other mess blown around.