A Sea Of Red

Look out. Hurrican Gustav is headed towards New Orleans. Jindal is ready to evacuate...

What a gay name for a Hurricane... For real... the only way It could be any more gay is if it were named "Jon"

hahahahhaha

Nobody is laughing about this here in Houston. This has Katrina/Rita type of potential if it keeps moving slow across the Gulf like this. Evacuation plans are being assembled here in Houston as well. If it comes here 5 million people will be trying to leave at the same. Rita showed what a mess that could become.

Sly Fox wrote:Nobody is laughing about this here in Houston.

That's because Texans have no sense of humor.

Sly Fox wrote:Nobody is laughing about this here in Houston. This has Katrina/Rita type of potential if it keeps moving slow across the Gulf like this. Evacuation plans are being assembled here in Houston as well. If it comes here 5 million people will be trying to leave at the same. Rita showed what a mess that could become.

I have a buddy who is in law enforcement in the Houston area...and his wife was caught in the Rita FUBAR evacuation...one mell of a hess.

What are you talking about? The primary university in the state uses a cow as its mascot. And another uses a horned toad frog. If that doesn't show a sense of humor then nothing does.



I really am not a fan of the color yellow right now. But I am very glad I am not still on staff at the NBC station or I'd be working 18-hour shifts and sleeping on a cot at the station starting Monday.

If Gustav hits New Orleans.....and i were a betting man id say those levees don't hold up to a Cat 3 or 4 storm.

Sly Fox wrote:Nobody is laughing about this here in Houston. This has Katrina/Rita type of potential if it keeps moving slow across the Gulf like this. Evacuation plans are being assembled here in Houston as well. If it comes here 5 million people will be trying to leave at the same. Rita showed what a mess that could become.

Please tell me they at least learned from that and improved something

The NHC forecast certainly has it tracking further west with most every update.

Sly Fox wrote:What are you talking about? The primary university in the state uses a cow as its mascot. And another uses a horned toad frog.

Yeah, just try pointing out how ridiculous that is with one of them and see how far you get.

Oh, yeah, got to stay on topic.
Hurricane = bad. FEMA = national embarassment. Gustav = Swedish meatball.

Sly Fox wrote:Nobody is laughing about this here in Houston. This has Katrina/Rita type of potential if it keeps moving slow across the Gulf like this.

As in thousands of homeless refugees being dumped there and leaching off of the city as if they owned the place?

Yeah, maybe all of the Katrina transplants will go back to NO.

If I'm a business owner in that part of the gulf...I am going to Wal-Mart, Dicks, and anywhere else I can get ammo and preparing to defend my turf against the hoodlums.

LUconn wrote:Yeah, maybe all of the Katrina transplants will go back to NO.

Uh, no. But Austin and Dallas had better watch out.

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I love the quote by Nagin..."We're ready." Yeah...right!

I bet McCain isn't too happy about the forecast...scheduled to make landfall in the middle of the Republican National Convention. Not good for ratings. Also bad for gas prices.

Oh, I hope everyone is safe there, too. Take care, Sly.

01LUGrad wrote:I bet McCain isn't too happy about the forecast...scheduled to make landfall in the middle of the Republican National Convention. Not good for ratings. Also bad for gas prices.

Oh, I hope everyone is safe there, too. Take care, Sly.

I've seen a couple of rumblings that the GOP might put off the convention b/c of the storm...as it would be in bad taste to be partying and celebrating during a disaster.

Looking rather impressive

How does any building survive a year in Cuba?

That's why everybody builds with cinder blocks down there. It is cheap and stands up well to tropical storms.

The longer it drifts north the better the odds of it avoiding my place.

This thing went from a Tropical Storm to a Cat 4 hurricane in 24 hours...and is expected to become a Cat 5. Scary Stuff....

Sly Fox wrote:What are you talking about? The primary university in the state uses a cow as its mascot. And another uses a horned toad frog. If that doesn't show a sense of humor then nothing does.



I really am not a fan of the color yellow right now. But I am very glad I am not still on staff at the NBC station or I'd be working 18-hour shifts and sleeping on a cot at the station starting Monday.

I'm hoping for the black and a good front to send that weather to the Burg- Houston probably looks like a jungle, and my yard looks like the savanna.

Not to belabor a subject, but Gustav is getting nastier by the minute. It has already reached Category IV status with Category V likely on Sunday. This is a Katrina/Rita type of storm. Nagin issued a mandatory evacuation tonight in New Orleans and we are not out of the woods here in Houston by any stretch of the imagination.

I have relatives on the way now. It is only voluntary at the moment, I think it's mandatory for N.O. at 8 tomorrow morning. My uncle is leaving around 3 am trying to lessen the wait time on the interstate.