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shalannaMan. If 't'ain't one thing, it's another.
Friends and acquaintances of ours are stuck on the road south of Huntsville, headed for Dallas to escape the storm headed for Galveston. Now Houston area residents are being told it's too late to try to get a-road; some areas of Houston are predicted to get flooding, as well as winds. We rode out Carla in 1961 in the Memorial district (corner of Conifer and Gaywood), when I was a toddler. I don't even remember it (I'd have been about eighteen months old), but until Mama's last move, she had a piece of one of our plate glass windows that served as a topper on her dresser. The storm tore off one of the wood panels Daddy had nailed over the window and broke through anyway. I do remember the flash flooding when Camille came through in 1969 and made the name of our neighbor Dan Rather (the Rathers lived three streets behind us off of Gaywood back then.) By then, we'd moved to Dallas (in 1967), but we were there visiting friends. Man, I love that area and hate to see it meet the fate of Mississippi towns. Don't know what'll happen.
They predict the eye of the storm will make it all the way up here to Dallas as a Cat 1 storm. That's just crazy.
So pray for the people to NOT be stuck on the roads. People are being allowed on evac buses with one suitcase and one caged/crated pet each, so this time there won't be holdouts because of the pets. As I understand it, you and your kids and spouse can each be holding a small crate with your dogs, cats, and rabbits inside and still go to the shelters in Lufkin, Brenham, New Braunfels, College Station, and so forth. This is good.
Y'know, if the passenger train system were still in place as it was in WWII times, everybody could just be jumping the Katy or the ATS&F. They could be in NYC by now. "She caught the Katy and left me a mule to ride." Well, I miss the trains. I don't think we were very wise in letting that entire system go away. (And they have the Amtrak subsidy on the table for cutting so they can pay for Katrina--a big huge mistake.)
We are waiting for word from our friends who are headed up here to stay with a mutual friend. The North Texas Mensa mailing list has been asking for people who have a vacant house or condo for sale to PLEASE let some of the displaced "rent" for a few days, because we are out of hotel space. At least some of our hotels won't go broke, I suppose . . . many were struggling because of the downturn in business and conferences.
In other news, I just e-mailed my chapters and synopsis to Maggie Crawford's assistant at Pocket (Simon and Schuster. Swoon! Swoon! Swoon!) She says they arrived intact and are being printed right now. It is very shallow of me to pray that the words go into her heart and strike her fancy . . . but I'm doing it anyhow. My mother-in-law said you can ask God for anything.
I'm putting those prayers in between the ones for the Gulf and the travelers, though. They need 'em right now. Have you seen the CNN/MSNBC pictures of the highway? They're going to make the southbound lanes northbound, they keep saying, but they haven't gotten it cleared yet. People have been stuck for 13 hours on the road. And it's over a hundred degrees. (It's 104 by my back fence, according to the digital weather station, if you trust that my station's sensor isn't exaggerating!)
We're going to fill up the van in a little while, because gas prices are going up. I guarantee they'll take any excuse to hike prices. And who knows--we should be ready to evacuate. I suppose the survivalists are a little more rational than we used to think; it'd be nice to have a compound in the country with a generator.
And a shotgun full of rock salt, of course, to keep people playing nice outside your fence! *grin* I loved the sign seen in NoLA a while ago to fend off looters. "Don't try it--I'm in here with two shotguns, a baseball bat, 2 pit bulls, and an ugly woman!" Something like that. He didn't get bothered, either.
Friends and acquaintances of ours are stuck on the road south of Huntsville, headed for Dallas to escape the storm headed for Galveston. Now Houston area residents are being told it's too late to try to get a-road; some areas of Houston are predicted to get flooding, as well as winds. We rode out Carla in 1961 in the Memorial district (corner of Conifer and Gaywood), when I was a toddler. I don't even remember it (I'd have been about eighteen months old), but until Mama's last move, she had a piece of one of our plate glass windows that served as a topper on her dresser. The storm tore off one of the wood panels Daddy had nailed over the window and broke through anyway. I do remember the flash flooding when Camille came through in 1969 and made the name of our neighbor Dan Rather (the Rathers lived three streets behind us off of Gaywood back then.) By then, we'd moved to Dallas (in 1967), but we were there visiting friends. Man, I love that area and hate to see it meet the fate of Mississippi towns. Don't know what'll happen.
They predict the eye of the storm will make it all the way up here to Dallas as a Cat 1 storm. That's just crazy.
So pray for the people to NOT be stuck on the roads. People are being allowed on evac buses with one suitcase and one caged/crated pet each, so this time there won't be holdouts because of the pets. As I understand it, you and your kids and spouse can each be holding a small crate with your dogs, cats, and rabbits inside and still go to the shelters in Lufkin, Brenham, New Braunfels, College Station, and so forth. This is good.
Y'know, if the passenger train system were still in place as it was in WWII times, everybody could just be jumping the Katy or the ATS&F. They could be in NYC by now. "She caught the Katy and left me a mule to ride." Well, I miss the trains. I don't think we were very wise in letting that entire system go away. (And they have the Amtrak subsidy on the table for cutting so they can pay for Katrina--a big huge mistake.)
We are waiting for word from our friends who are headed up here to stay with a mutual friend. The North Texas Mensa mailing list has been asking for people who have a vacant house or condo for sale to PLEASE let some of the displaced "rent" for a few days, because we are out of hotel space. At least some of our hotels won't go broke, I suppose . . . many were struggling because of the downturn in business and conferences.
In other news, I just e-mailed my chapters and synopsis to Maggie Crawford's assistant at Pocket (Simon and Schuster. Swoon! Swoon! Swoon!) She says they arrived intact and are being printed right now. It is very shallow of me to pray that the words go into her heart and strike her fancy . . . but I'm doing it anyhow. My mother-in-law said you can ask God for anything.
I'm putting those prayers in between the ones for the Gulf and the travelers, though. They need 'em right now. Have you seen the CNN/MSNBC pictures of the highway? They're going to make the southbound lanes northbound, they keep saying, but they haven't gotten it cleared yet. People have been stuck for 13 hours on the road. And it's over a hundred degrees. (It's 104 by my back fence, according to the digital weather station, if you trust that my station's sensor isn't exaggerating!)
We're going to fill up the van in a little while, because gas prices are going up. I guarantee they'll take any excuse to hike prices. And who knows--we should be ready to evacuate. I suppose the survivalists are a little more rational than we used to think; it'd be nice to have a compound in the country with a generator.
And a shotgun full of rock salt, of course, to keep people playing nice outside your fence! *grin* I loved the sign seen in NoLA a while ago to fend off looters. "Don't try it--I'm in here with two shotguns, a baseball bat, 2 pit bulls, and an ugly woman!" Something like that. He didn't get bothered, either.
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Date: 2005-09-22 07:46 pm (UTC)Stay dry.
The evacuation seems to have run into trouble; I do hope those people manage to get somewhere safe.
P.