So do you suggest staying or leaving? I live right behind TSU in 3rd ward. The weather guy at our job thinks the storm will be bad and that local officials aren't taking it serious (as serious as they should be).
Well...It's kind of in the spirit of this storm. You're cruising along, thinking life is great and then..BAM! Out of nowhere a HUGE Hurricane (pic).
Is the next big update at 1 enough time for models to shift? Correct me if im wrong but next big model change should come around 6am?
UH needs to get of their butts and decide WTF they are gonna do. This is bad to keep kids and employees tied to their slow moves.
Jeremiah I read on the internet about a 48 hour window to clear Galveston in a mandatory evacuation. Are people leaving on their own or waiting? Is I-45 Northbound crowded?
Galveston is under voluntary evac. The mayor of Galveston already said it was too late to issue a Mandatory evac. so they are just gonna do a voluntary.
People started clearing out of the West end of the island tonight, but from what I gathered at work, most will leave in the morning. Looking at the Transtar live webcams, 45 looks pretty empty. I honestly don't think that they will call a mandatory evac for the rest of Galveston- the logistics are just too much. There was a press conference that my wife watched and she said it was obvious that the Mayor was backpedaling about the botched evacuation. You can read a little about it here. UTMB is going to decide tomorrow before 7 AM if it is going to evacuate some patients. I'm hoping that it's not going to be a traffic jam at 11 AM like it was with Rita. But for now it's pretty empty.
I read that pages ago, perhaps around 6 - 7 pm. (?) <hr> Currently looking for pictures of I-45 on the Transtar web site. Any Galveston web cam links?
Jeremiah Thank you for the response. Yes, I-45 does look <I>normal</I> at the moment. Even with going Contra Flow on I-45, the logistics aren't doable in under 48 hours?
I'm far from an expert. But Galveston isn't just a suburb of 60k people who can load up their car and go. You have the hospital, which in itself would take a while to evacuate. I don't have the patient number but I remember from Rita that there were Ambulances tearing up the shoulder for hours..and they also have big military transports they would need to load at the airport. And then they have to figure out where everyone is going, including the prisoner patients, which there are a lot of. You also have people without reliable transportation- a good chunk of Galveston is below the poverty line, so lots of people don't have cars. And speaking of prisoners, there is a big jail here, too. So lots of little cluster-f***s that could screw up the entire thing. I guess 48 hours is what they consider safe.
The Shriners hospital is going to bus their patients out tomorrow, well...thats the call that my dad got today.
