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Moms View Message Board: General Discussion Archive: Archive September 2005: THOSE IN THE GULF COAST REGION
Seems like Rita is heading your way...it's a CAT 4 now and I'm hoping that no one lives in Galveston!! Are any of you in Texas and evacuating??
I dont even know what to say, I am praying for you all. I have been through a few 80 mph+ storms here and they are no fun. I cant imagine what it is like looking at that big old nasty red storm circling on the weather channel wondering if it is heading straight for you. Ugh. As always I have all you moms out there in my heart and prayers.
Thoughts and prayers to anyone that is in that area.
Rita and others
Kaye and Christylee are in that area and are evacuating today.
My thoughts & prayers are with all in the Gulf Coast Region. Stay safe!
Kaye and Christylee thinking of you.
Thinking about all of you and hoping all will be safe.
Looks like Pam and the kids, and Amy, Mike and the kids are evacuating - just spoke with Mike, and he said they are probably going to make a decision in the morning.
Is it just me, or has hurricane season gotten worse over the past few years??? I can't even imagine. Dh's oldest sister lives in Houston. Prayers for everyone in Rita's path. Please check in when you can to let us know you're okay.
I am in Michigan and I am even panicked. You don't NEED another dam hurricane! (insert mad face here!)
I will be thinking and praying for everyone
This winter when it gets to -40C and I'm complaining about the cold...please remind me how lucky I am!
Refresh my memory...was Katrina a 3 or 4 hurricane?
Katrina hit 5 in the gulf, but was a 4 at landfall. Rita is now a 5 w/winds of 165 mph.
Ditto Paula, I will never complain about snow or cold again here is PA...even if we have a blizzard!
Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone in the path of this storm. With it being a category 5 now...all our prayers.
We are in Beaumont, Texas and we are leaving tonight. A little drastic, I know, but we are flying to Minnesota because my sister lives there and it gives us and excuse to visit.
Okay I don't live In texas but I do live in Southern Oklahoma. I just have a questiong our local news isn't much help. What do you think we could expect from the storm. I figured we would probably get alot of rain. but I have been wondering with it being so strong and all if we should take any procautions.
Every newscast I hear this storm seems to be getting worse and worse.....prayers to all in her path!!
Thoughts and prayers for everyone in the path of Rita!
We are finally at our destination! What is normally a 5 hour trip took us just over 9 hours! What fun! Houston traffic is always a pain, but evacuation traffic is just special..LOL. We are safe, we were in a mandatory evac zone, so we had to leave, but we left a little earlier than we had too. This is a pain, but at least we get some warning, we got our houses ready (i turned the power off karen and just took all the food with us). Did i mention that 9 hours was 3 kids, a dog and a hermit crab... oh boy, I am off to sleep!
I'm staying in WI. I don't mind winter weather that much! It's a lot better than a hurricane!
Kaye, glad to hear you made it. Where are you???? LOL I think you did well to make a 5-hour trip in 9 hours! Last year, when our area evacuated for Ivan (before it turned towards FL), people were spending 8 to 10 hours on the road to go to Baton Rouge - which is an hour from here!!!! At this point, this storm is the 3rd strongest ever recorded, the sustained winds are 175 MHP and the pressure is below 900. It's expected to weaken to a Cat 4 before making landfall, but Katrina was a Cat 4, and you've all seen what *she* did.
Some of the projections I've seen have it turning a little more towards the TX/LA line. If that happens, then BR could get hammered, esp being on the east side. We're watching the news very carefully and I check the National Hurricane Center's website almost hourly. If it heads a little more this way then we'll have to make an 11th hour decision to leave. I just wish we knew for SURE where it will make landfall. That's the part the kills me>
Kaye, Glad to hear to made it to your destinantion.
Pam, check NHC.NOAA.GOV, half of Louisiana is now in the 3 and 5 day cones. Great news, huh? At this point, where I live will be getting approx. 60 MHP winds and a lot of rain which is actually tropical storm, Baton Rouge will get worse!
*IF* it has a sudden change in course, I'm heading to Kim's or to Birmingham where DH is staying! LOL
Karen - from what I've heard this morning on NPR, I think you ought to get ready to head up to Birmingham, and leave tomorrow morning. And that's for everyone else from New Orleans west to whatever the National Weather Service says will be the likely western edge.
We are safe, we're still going to go through a category one here in Austin but better than a 5 down in Houston.
I am north of san antonio, well clear of the path.
Glad you two are safe. Every time I look at the weather, the storm just looks bigger and bigger.
Christy and Kim(Kaye)...glad you guys are safe!
Heidi, that's because we will be on the *wet* side of the storm, and with the condition of the levees and the fact that the ground is totally saturated here in the area from Katrina, it won't take much to flood. Many areas around here are evacuating again. I'm not planning to at this point.........but that could change tonight.
League City is under mandatory evacuation.
Karen, you are welcome any time!!!
Thanks, Jann. I figured since I couldn't get in touch with her. I can't reach her by cellphone either.
League city got evac-ed yesterday. so they should be fine. the roads were tough yesterday, but NOTHING like am seeing on the news.
Kaye, that is what happened in the New Orleans area to a certain extent. In the past 6 or 7 years, we've been under evacuation orders at least once each season. The storms always turned and went into MS or FL. People get irritated, then they get a false sense of security, and figure the same thing will happen, so they don't leave.
The traffic is so bad everywhere in Dallas it's hard to get around. It's just crazy. Very stressful. Now I know how Baton Rouge feels. It's hard on the evacuees and the folks receiving the evacuees.
Well Mommmie, in addition to Baton Rouge traffic for the past 3 weeks, we now have more evacuations added to the mess. The governor is urging people NOT to evacuate to BR because there is no more room in hotels AND personal homes. It took me an hour to get home from work (it's 5 miles away) and I went to 4 gas stations and still didn't get gas. As I finally pulled up to a pump at Chevron (#4) a voice came over the loudspeaker and announced, "Attention customers: We are now out of gas." My car is on empty!!! School's are cancelled here tomorrow...again, we now have 5 days to make up. I am so stressed and tired---this was supposed to be our weekend to catch-up and rest for the FIRST time since Katrina.
Pam, have you guys started getting squally weather there yet? We've been having it periodically for hours now. When I was driving on the 3-10 coming home, it was so windy, it was actually hard to control the car.
Yeah, just as I left work it started rain and it was getting breezy. I could feel the pull on the car too. It's not raining now, but VERY cloudy outside.
Keeping everyone in the path in my thoughts and prayers.
I feel so horrible for you all! I am glued to the TV and hoping Rita calms down and doesn't cause too much damage. I will pray for everyone!
Oh and I live in Huntsville, Al, if anyone needs a place to stay
Pamt - today is our first day for gas lines, although there is plenty of gas (at what cost, though?!). I filled up last night with no problem. City of Dallas said we couldn't take any Rita folks because we were so full of Katrina folks, but they eventually had to accept them in the end because all of the hotels are full all the way to Oklahoma City and people have been in their cars for 18-20 hours already. So all the shelters are back open (most of the Katrina folks had been moved to free apartments).
All are in my thoughts and prayers, of course.. Big hugs to you too....
Mommmie...maybe you can call in sick tomorrow??
Pam, we had some thunderstorms and pretty good wind gusts last night - and there are large tree limbs blown into my yard already, probably from the surrounding trees that were broken from Katrina. The one behind us that partially fell on my storage building had parts of it just hanging, I guess the winds will finish off the ones that are damaged.
I'm in Far North Dallas, Richardson ISD. I could throw a rock at Plano. Traffic wasn't too bad coming in this morning and kiddo is going home with another kid for a sleepover so I don't have to do the school pick up and return to work thing this afternoon - which should take 45 min, but takes more than an hour since Katrina and longer with Rita.
Pam, I just heard that this afternoon and through tonight, Baton Rouge is supposed to get 70-90 MPH winds w/gust up to 110!
Karen, where did you hear that? I've heard sustained winds of 30-50 mph with gusts up to 70. My MIL (she obsesses about the weather anyway) has already called us twice today--LOL. I also heard on the radio a few minutes ago that Rita is now a cat 3.
I just checked weather.com and it is a cat 3 now. "Persistent weakening has brought Hurricane Rita down to a Category 3 storm. The eye is heading for a Saturday morning rendezvous with the upper Texas or southwest Louisiana Gulf Coast." My SIL and her dh live in Houston and have decided to ride it out. They are on the SW side so they should be okay. They'll probably still get some heafty winds and rain.
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I picked Calcasieu Parish in LA. 