You know, the best forecaster out of this has been Frank Billingsly. He has been dead on accurate. The more I look at the movement, the more it appears to be moving north-northwest and aiming at the eastern Louisiana coastline. If it does go in say 30 miles or so into Louisiana, most of Houston will experience a few hours of 40-50mph wind and probably 2 or 3 inches of rain, a far cry from where we were two days ago.
i've really really appreciated 2's coverage of this. the fact that they went 24 hours before everyone else set them apart. and i've obviously also enjoyed dr neil's stuff. abc/fox have been horrible as always.
Channel did a good job in reporting the facts. However, they unnecessarily scared the crap of alot of people when they kept running that 'doomsday' scenerio over and over.
The rest of the channel was nearly un-watchable as usual. But, Frank Billingsly has been terrific. And am I crazy, or is that little Amy Davis a cutie?
I'm starting to feel some gusts going on maybe between 15-20mph...coming from downtown (eastern side)
I understand Dr. Neil wants everyone to think and prepare for the worst case scenario, but I agree. Even as a few hours ago, even with EVERYONE else saying it was hitting well east of us, he was talking as if it was still coming right through Galveston. Everytime I felt a little better about the situation within the last 24 hours, he would come on a deflate everything for me. lol But, when he said last night that he lived around Katy and wasn't going to think about evacuating, I breathed a little better. I'm not going to complain about any of the local forecasters, they are trying their best to keep us informed and prepared for what could happen. I'm just glad I could get on here and see what Jeff was saying.
they are doing some crazy hours too. i know i've been fairly cranky about all this in the past few days...im sure its taking its toll on all our local people too. and overall they aren't doing bad.
I was talking to my mom about that earlier today...she used to be the Emergency Management coordinator for Pasadena for years...and she reminded me that although he has the same access to the data that JEff has been using to keep us informed...he is and has always been very conservative in his interpretation of it. He almost has to be when informing the general public...if he had said a few hours back that it looked real good cause it was hitting the Golden Triangle, folks around here would have relaxed and still had time to start out coming back home. Im feeling good since I heard him actually say he expected it to hit near Port Arthur...for him to actually admit it speaks volumes about where it will most likely end up.
I can see it now: Monday's story.... Over 2 million pi$$ed off people returning to Houston when they realized they could've easily rode out the storm here.
True. But in all fairness, the cat 3 hurricane that's gonna land on the Texas border was very nearly a cat 5 hurricane that hit houston directly. We should consider ourselves lucky to be inconvenienced. We could be worse. We could be in New Orleans.
Can you imagine? Everything those people went through to get out of town, only to see they really didn't need to and then look forward to the same thing coming back. This makes that bus of elderly exploding that much more sick. On a brighter side, I know everything will be OK since I just saw a squirrel take a dump in my neighbor's yard.
It took me 4 hours & 15 minutes to get to Tomball on Thursday when it normally only takes 40 minutes. I'm already pissed I left so early as I could left today and made it in normal time. I plan on coming back early Sunday to beat the rush and make sure the looters go elsewhere.
Its weird...KTRK is forecasting about 8" of rain in the Houston area over the next few days because this system is supposed to stall according to them. KHOU also says that the system might stall and backtrack but KPRC is only predicting 2-3" of rain for just a few hours and no mention of any backtracking by the system. Who do you believe? What will this system do?
im going with whatever Domonique Sascha (sp?) says.. this is why i watch channel 2 or why i even watch the news at all
Local stations = the idiot feed Outside world has gone yellow, and the first drops of rain are coming down - 7:15 pm, Med Center Evan
