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Originally posted by AnonAlumna
My husband's been calling one of his bro's every hour or so. He and his family are leaving League City. They've been on 45N for the last five hours, and he thinks they've gone about 20 miles.
In CC news, my two SILs are leaving in the morning to go to Waco. I still cannot convince my MIL to leave as well. She says, 'If it's meant to be, it's meant to be.' My other SIL says they're going to wait and see if it hits Galveston, if it does they'll be fine...she says. If it hits further south, they're driving 45 mins east to her sister's house. I just don't think that people listen to themselves when they speak. Obviously not the most educated people in the world. My two nephews (ages 5 and 7) are freaking out. They saw all the Katrina stuff on TV and have talked about it in class. It's funny, but they are more concerned for their safety than the adults are!
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Folks... I'm gonna be straight, blunt and to the point, decorum be damned: if the authorities tell you to leave, GET THE F*CK OUTTA TOWN WHILE YOU STILL CAN! It's too late to do so once the rains start and the winds blow steadily over 50 mph.
I remember back in 1979 when I was 14 and hurricane David was gunning for Miami. It was a lot tamer than the Cat 5 monster it was, but expected to pack a mean wallop. My family decided to ride out the storm in our apartment on the third floor. Luckily, David veered north and we dodged a bullet, but a few months later there was a heavy rainstorm that put about a foot of water on the ground floor where the cars were parked. That was it... we moved out of that apartment and into a duplex - we were not going to ride out a big storm except in a shelter or well out of the path if we decided to evacuate.
The weatherguessers' computer models have Rita making landfall between Freeport and Port Lavaca, north of Corpus but south of Galveston. That puts Galveston and the Houston metro area in the dreaded northeast quadrant of the storm, and both cities are very likely gonna get the proverbial shit kicked out of them.