Hey Joel

[whiskers_ump]

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

Good Luck buddy.

[Gulf Coast Blue]

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

[Skahtboi]

Good luck, Joel!

[CajunNewBlue]

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

[Gulf Coast Blue]

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

[Gulf Coast Blue]

No Tree Trimming for you!!!!!

Joel

[IRISHMAFIA]

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.

[whiskers_ump]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

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

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by whiskers_ump

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

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.

[Dholloway1962]

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

[Fozzie]

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

[whiskers_ump]

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.

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.

[Skahtboi]

Originally Posted by whiskers_ump

Guess I won't see you this weekend, although I have
not heard from the TD

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

[whiskers_ump]

Originally Posted by Skahtboi

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

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

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by whiskers_ump

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

Yeah and the curve balls must be tough, too!