probably a wise move at a minimum take advantage of the rest of the day to board up the windows with plywood and fill all the bathtubs with water once finished, duck down in an interior room and tune to NOAA am radio
We may be making jokes now, but if the westward trend continues giving the storm more time to strengthen, none of us will be laughing.
Well, that is true, but I grew up in Galveston County and currently live in "Deep East Texas." None of us expected any impact from hurricanes because of our distance from the coast. How wrong we were. Both Rita and Ike brought major damage up here. During Ike I left our house and moved to our lake house about an hour up the road. We got blown off the lake and had to move to a shelter. Crazy. I am definitely "gun shy" now. Also, during Carla, we experienced 80 mph winds on Lake Travis in Austin. A hurricane doesn't just affect the coastal areas; it can pack a wallop for several hundred miles inland. Especially if it has a 200 mile wind field like this one.
I been lurking here for three years. Can someone point me to original "should Katy evacuate" thread? Or at least fill me in on the joke. I want to laugh at the original question. :grin:
Eek, not looking good for NOLA. "Obama does not like black people." Whoever guesses what I'm talking about first gets a rep! Anyways, I was really surprised to see the models shifting farther west.
Whoops, I totally butchered Kayne West's statement. lol anyways, Issac is looking to be more organized this morning. The latest model for GDFL shifted farther west this morning. Yesterday, the model runs from yesterday afternoon.
It always annoys me when people from, say, Austin say this about a hurricane heading for Houston...but I'm going to say it now anyway. I hope we can at least get some rain out of this.
If it stays a weak storm it will have a very good chance of moving more west, as it's just so big. I would love the rain from this thing. The gulf isn't even warm, and the gulf stream has kept the gulf relatively cool compared to 2005 or 2008. I'd take this one.
The severely drought stricken Mississippi Valley should get some too late but still much needed rain. The river is at all time lows around Louisville and some barge traffic has been suspended.
