Category Archives: rita
Why I haven’t unpacked yet
Ike three days before landfall: Rita three days before landfall:
Random hurricane stuff
Brother Bill reports that the bayou in his neighborhood in Prairieville was flowing backwards yesterday as the last of the rain bands passed over head. After Katrina he needed some roof repair. After Rita, he now needs a completely new roof. No power, but his best friend is a building contractor so he’s set up [...]
ACL first day
I picked Cassidy up from school today and we headed straight to the festival. This was kind of a practice run, since most of our favorite bands aren’t playing til tomorrow. It was hot, like last year, with a few passing clouds from the outermost edge of Rita, and every once in a while a [...]
How Texas does it
Yesterday Gina had to listen to more smug comments from some guy she works with about how “Texas knows how to prepare for a hurricane”. This guy has spent the last three weeks badmouthing Ray Nagin over this mistake and that error, and yesterday he was saying “Watch how Houston does it.” Well, ain’t that [...]
Hurricane fatigue
what of the people who don’t have what i got? are they victims of my leisure? to fail is to be a victim to be a victim of my choice maybe partying will help After a frenzy of activity yesterday, it appears that Rita has pulled farther east, so Austin likely won’t feel much more [...]
Austin: Prepare for a hurricane
Unprecedented. Rita is now a Category 5 storm, and the center of the track shows it as still being a hurricane-strength storm when it passes less than 100 miles to the east of Austin. From KXAN: The City of Austin says that it is important that Austin/Travis County residents make preparations for this storm including [...]
Frantic activity
Man, Rita has thrown a real wrench into what was going to be a fun weekend decompressing from Katrina. Forecasters are expecting the storm to pass close to Austin as a tropical storm, with possible hurricane-strength winds in central Texas. At the very least, it is likely to be a catastrophic storm somewhere along the [...]
Rita analysis
Sci Guy has been providing great Katrina coverage with a Houston point of view for the past few weeks. He completely geeks out with Rita storm analysis now. Check it out.
Rita
I’m not sure I’m ready to do this all over again. Yesterday this storm was predicted to hit the lower Texas coast, and I was OK with that. OK, I feel guilty for saying that, I don’t wish a hurricane on anybody, but it’s a little more sparsely populated, and there aren’t a ton of [...]
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