[BaadAssGremlins] Re: escape from planet houston

["blue77gremlin" <blue77gremlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

  Good Luck and I hope everything goes well for you and anyone else 
down there. Times like this I don't mind the crappy midwest. 
(northern ILL)
                   SCOTT


  --- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Davis Martin <martin-
davis@xxxx> wrote:
> Eddie,
>  God bless you and your family. I will pray for your safe return. 
>  Davis 
>  
> 
> eddiestakes@xxxx wrote:
> Real quick before I go. Rita was upgraded to a Cat 5 hurricane a 
few minutes 
> ago. Tuesday night I went shopping for the usual hurricane stuff: 
can 
> opener, bottled water, candles, batteries, flashlights, can goods, 
dry stuff 
> like cereals, pop tarts, and other crap I'm not supposed to have 
now that I 
> got got diagnosed being Diabetic a few months ago. Still, Tuesday 
was not 
> bad shopping, hurricane still around the Keys in FL. However. Last 
night I 
> went to Wal Mart, Home Depot, Dollar Store and Sams and what a 
free for all. 
> A number of WHOLE ROWS were shut down in Sams as people were 
buying 
> Gatorades, bottled water and sodas. Some rows had palates shoved 
in the 
> middle of them full of canned tuna and other slow to perish stuff.
> 
> The rows were long, and the people were many, and most carts chock 
full, 
> even those flat carts bulging. That was at Sams. At Home Depot as 
soon as a 
> truck pulled up with plywood people desended on it like it was a 
new Star 
> Wars movie. The 18 wheeler sold out in MINUTES. More to come they 
said if 
> people were going to wait, as Home Depot was extending their hours 
into the 
> early AM to try to load shelves back up. Many shelves had been 
stripped 
> clean like locusts invasion. That was at all four stores.
> 
> Hard to find, if not already out (and most stores were out of same 
stuff) 
> was bollted water, masking tape, D and C batteries, Cymalumes, and 
it was at 
> a point at the Dollar Store and Wally World where poeple were 
buying crap 
> one normally would not like canned beets. I'll drink a pint of New 
Orleans 
> water before I'll eat canned beets. But the panic buying was scary.
> 
> I've been thru many hurricanes thru the years in Texas, worst one 
was Celia 
> on Aug 3rd, 1970 down in Corpus Christi, we lost both houses. I 
don't know 
> what 'category' it was but wind gust broke the gauge at the 
airport at 161 
> miles per hour. All out Ramblers had glass blown out from rocks 
off the Coca 
> Cola roof next door which were like bullets. These came off the 
roof at such 
> speed we found them EMBEDDED in the side of one of our houses. 
Several of 
> the cars looked like Tu Pacs car with holes in it. No 'thru' the 
metal but 
> damned close. We also had a 500 lb fan come off the Coca Cola 
plant and hit 
> our roof and knocked a gaping 10 foot hole in the roof which got 
bigger with 
> each gust.
> 
> Back to Houston, there is MANDATORY EVACUATIONS for Galveston and 
other 
> areas southeast of me right now. The traffic is absolutlely 
unbelievable; 
> basically a solid like from Galveston to the Woodlands on I-45, 
about 80 
> miles. And about the same heading west on I-10 and NW on 290. 
Hurricane Rita 
> is expected to shove a 15-25 foot storm surge into Galveston bay. 
If you 
> have ever been to Houston you know that completely covers 
Galveston, but 
> also takes out Kemah, League City, Tiki Island, Santa Fe, and like 
Alicia 22 
> years ago, could very well wash out areas up to NASA!
> 
http://www.texasfreeway.com/Houston/photos/45_galveston/45_galveston.
shtml
> 
> The forecast track of Rita is "supposed" to hit near Matagorda. 
I'm not sure 
> some of you have ever heard of Indianola, Texas, but here it is:
> 
http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasGhostTowns/IndianolaTexas/IndianolaT
x.htm
> 
> And almost 105 years ago the US's worst disaster with more than 
6000 lives 
> lost from a hurricane 65 miles southeast of where I'm writing at 
the moment, 
> about 38-44 feet "above" sea level here however:
> http://www.1900storm.com/
> 
> Yup, even a category 1 hurrcane sucks. And sometimes even if they 
are no 
> "wind" events like Allison was in 2001, which is the costilest 
tropical 
> storm in US history with over $5.5 billion dollars in damage:
> http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/projects/allison01.htm
> 
> Anyhows, gotta go, still a LOT of stuff to do before Rita hits the 
coast 
> somewhere. Windfield is about 100 miles to either side of eye, 
that is 
> hurricane force+ winds either side of eye, but wind around the eye 
area is 
> over 150mph, there ain't nothing built I can think of to withstand 
that. 
> Sort of like being inside a F4 tornado for 6-15 hours, depending 
on how 
> fast....or slow.....the hurricane is moving. Katrina is still 
fresh in 
> everyone's minds and should be about the destruction these big 
storms can 
> cause. So you prepare for the worst and pray for the best.
> This is a live shot of Houston radar some of you might look at 
from time to 
> time, especially Friday night/Saturday morning, which is when 
bitch Rita 
> supposed to visit:
> http://www.click2houston.com/wxmap/971287/detail.html
> 
> This is the Weather Channels website, shows projected path, but 
more 
> importantly has up to the minute imagery in case local radars get 
knocked 
> out:
> http://www.weather.com/
> 
> And funny, there were over 110,000 evacuess from New Orlenas in 
Houston 
> recently. You can't use the Astrodome as a shelter as roof is 
plastic and 
> glass tiles. Most if not all of these people shipped elsewhere, 
ironic that 
> they came here with nothing because of a hurricane, and now 
leaving with 
> nothing because of a hurricane.
> 
> Ya'll take care, if you ordered something from me recently, or bid 
on one of 
> my ebay auctions which will be ending Friday in a last minute 
shameless 
> plug: :~O))>
> http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZeddiestakesQQhtZ-1
> be patient, as several local forecasters said depending on where 
this 
> monster hits, Houston, and areas of Houston, could be without 
electricity 
> for 1-3 weeks. We got a lot of trees here you know. Can beets my 
ass! I 
> throw my can of beets at Rita!
> Eddie Stakes'
> Planet Houston AMX
> 713.464.8825
> eddiestakes@xxxx
> www.planethoustonamx.com
> 
> email on suspend 9/21/05 
> 
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