Please Texas Coastians - pay heed and get out.

[merh]

or be prepared for the worst.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3983747

[supernova]

1. I think they've stayed past

the time to get out.

:-(

[merh]

2. Then they need to prepare their attics in case the surge comes

into their houses. See the link.

[kentauros]

3. I'm not worried.

I'm over sixty feet above sea level in a 500-year flood zone. We are not in an evacuation zone, either, and likely for the same reasons. The only thing I have any concerns about is the wind, yet that is expected to be 82mph, by current predictions. I've seen that fluctuate between 68 and 85, so it could fluctuate again, to the lower numbers, too.

If you want to see topo, here it is:



That "bayou" nearby is nothing more than a concrete ditch, no more then eight feet deep. My apartment is at least another eight feet above the road and I'm on the second floor of a flat-roofed two-storey building, built back when they understood about hurricanes (1950s.) I expect to see many of the home structures built in the last couple of decades to suffer far worse from the winds alone.

But I refuse to worry about this. That just makes it all the worse. I'm prepared as I need to be. That's all that matters.

[merh]

4. I'm glad you are in a good place.

take care

[kentauros]

5. Thanks

:)

I'm at least 50 miles inland. In 1983 with Hurricane Alicia, I still lived with the rest of my family and we were in the Clear Lake area, which is about 25-30 miles inland. Even so, we only had minor ridge damage to our roof while neighbors had trees fall on their homes (our trees had all died to a post oak disease years earlier.) Even so, there wasn't the threat of storm surge then. I don't doubt there is now, though and I noticed my old neighborhood was one of the areas under mandatory evacuation.

Here's the site for windspeeds by zip code, in case you haven't seen it and know someone in a certain zip: http://houstonhidefromthewind.org/

[merh]

6. thank you for the zip code map

stay safe and dry. :hi:

[Orsino]

7. And not just the coastians.

Was talking with a customer today in San Antonio whose circuit was down. He said "everybody is leaving."

I hope everyone does what is needed to stay safe.

[Taverner]

8. Is Houston in danger?

Or is it just Galveston?

[txwhitedove]

9. South Houston zip codes had mandatory evacuation on Thursday.

Metro Houston is huge. Then there are low-lying areas around the ship channel...

[texanwitch]

10. The winds are starting to kick up now, not hurricane yet.

Spent the last two days cutting plywood, I am now a expert.

Don't know how long we will have power.

Might be a week or two to get cable back, and I have Comcast.

With luck we might keep the power, I don't think so.

There are now 38 people here at my house, and several cats and dogs.

There is a big pot of pinto beans on the stove, and I am hungry.

I live in a good house and in a high area.

Well we ducked hurricanes for 25 years, and we got Ike.

[merh]

11. Sounds like you have opened your home and heart to others

that is great, you all just be very careful, the house I was in wasn't in a flood zone and was at high elevation.

[texanwitch]

13. We have what we call the I-10 river, it floods when White Bayou floods.

I am about 5 streets away, and I am betting that I-10 floods again.

This section of I-10 very deep.

I hope people will not be driving on it tonight.

[RoyGBiv]

12. How's the cornbread?

:-)

You inspired me, and I made some myself. It's yummy.

Be safe.

[texanwitch]

14. The cornbread is OK.

The beans are really good.