i was going to target to get some water on my way to the gym and i saw a HUGE military convoy headed south on hwy 59
My company also subscribes to the Impact Weather alerts. Usually the info is pretty good but the mass of emails can get annoying at times. Anyways, I think we'll know a lot more tomorrow about how bad this is gonna get. I live in The Heights so I have no plans on leaving, but I have family living in Deer Park so they're waiting to see if a mandatory evac is ordered for the storm surge zones. My dad has already told me though that even if a mandatory evacuation is ordered, they are staying there. I think this will be a common theme among many people that got caught in the mess on the freeways caused by the Rita scare.
Tell me about it. I auto filter all the impact weather emails out of my inbox. We get the "lightning proximity" alerts, so every thunderstorm produces dozens of emails.
yeah we live in tanglewood and will be staying put as well... i made it to austin when rita came in and that was the worst drive of my life. of ciurse i wasn't leaving houston b/c of rita as much as i was going to austin b/c of ACL. who knows, we may make the trip up to spring and stay at my sisters if things look like they're going to intensify.
Moved pretty far East on latest runs. In fact GFDL has moved even further East. This think might be Rita all over again.
Well...this is the worst possible landfall projection BUT 3 years ago Rita had this same projection a couple of days from landfall and we know what happened then.
Shifted east again. **** me right? This is the worst projection for Houston. These models can't stay still. GO AWAY IKE.
I bet all the bosses will take off from wrok, but we will have to take a vacation day to be off...bastards....
It is STILL moving NW, if this continues much longer I'm sure the forecast will continue to move north.
Then you haven't watched many hurricane forecasts. You can look at the link I posted earlier that shows all the forecasts for Rita from the time it was in the Florida straights. It went from landfall in Florida to Mexico to finally extreme western Louisiana. Forecasts are not easy. Most just don't notice a very small shift, from a meteorological standpoint. 100 to 200 miles is nothing unless you live in that 100 or 200 mile area. The intensity forecast is most troubling. This thing has a pinhole eye - about 10 miles. It's eerily similar to Hurricane Wilma, the most powerful hurricane in recorded history - not that I think Ike will rival Wilma because it won't. But, that's freaky.
