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of The Cooler
Sep 1999
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So mandates Governor Rick Perry in a televised new conference.
It's not up for discussion.
In 1961, Galveston was struck by Hurrican Carla, with wind speeds of 170 mph.
Aug. 17 - 18, 1969, Camille, the deadliest hurricane in
U.S. history, struck Galveston, with winds in excess of 200 mph and tides over 20 feet
What's an added factor, is that forecasts call for a shift to northerly winds Thursday night.
These will meet the warm rushing winds of the Gulf.
50,000 Louisiana evacuees are currently in Dallas alone.
Perry: Coastal residents need to leave
04:54 PM CDT on Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Associated Press
KHOU-TV
Retirement home residents wait to be loaded on an evacuation bus this morning.
As residents in Galveston and parts of Houston began evacuating ahead of Hurricane Rita Wednesday, Governor Rick Perry urged inhabitants of the Texas coast from Beaumont-Port Arthur to Corpus Christi to move inland as Hurricane Rita approaches.
Perry warned that a full evacuation of the coast would take at least 33 hours, and he warned coastal residents not to wait for a mandatory evacuation order.
He says Rita would "quite likely be a devastating storm" as the Category Four storm approaches the coast with winds of up to 140 miles per hour. He urged coastal residents to calmly gather important documents, secure their homes, fuel their vehicles and move inland.
In Galveston, hospital and nursing home patients were evacuated and others gathered up belongings and began clearing out Wednesday as Rita intensified into a Category 4 storm with 140-mph winds and threatened the Texas coast.
Houston Mayor Bill White ordered evacuations in storm-surge areas in Houston and asked people in flood plains and mobile homes to voluntarily evacuate. He also asked employers to use only essential personnel and schools to shut down Thursday and Friday, and urged residents to help each other.
"We need citizens who may need assistance in evacuations to reach out to friends, family and neighbors," he said. "There will not be enough government vehicles to go and evacuate everybody in every area."
The Houston area's geography makes evacuation particularly tricky. Unlike other hurricane-prone cities where the big city is on the coast, Houston is 60 miles inland. So a coastal suburban area of 2 million people has to evacuate through a metropolitan area of nearly 4 million.
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, the city's only hospital, had discharged about 200 people healthy enough to go home and were evacuating others by helicopter, ambulance and buses.
"When the storm happens, we are shutting everything down and we are not taking anybody in," said hospital spokeswoman Jennifer Reynolds-Sanchez.
Buses bound for shelters in Huntsville and College Station were to leave Galveston County, which has about 267,000 residents. The city ordered mandatory evacuations to begin later in the day. On Wednesday morning, dozens of people lined up, carrying pillows, bags and coolers to board one of several yellow Galveston school district buses.
Some 600 public housing residents were among those to be bused, and city officials reassured residents no one would be left behind.
"We've got more bus space than people and I'm not going to send them off empty," said City Manager Steve LeBlanc. "We are going to hold empty buses until the bitter end."
Sharon Strain, head of the Galveston Housing Authority, said anyone who can't make it to the buses would be picked up.
"After this killer in New Orleans, Katrina, I just cannot fathom staying," 59-year-old Ldyyan Jean Jocque said before sunrise Wednesday as she waited for an evacuation bus outside the Galveston Community Center. She had packed her Bible, some music and clothes into plastic bags and loaded her dog into a pet carrier.
North of Galveston in Harris County, which includes Houston, the state's largest city, officials urged residents to prepare for flooding as much as 35 miles inland.
Authorities said they wanted to make sure Texans learned from watching the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which slammed into Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi on Aug. 29. Hundreds of thousands of people stayed through the storm, leaving many without food or water for days.
"We've always asked people to leave earlier, but because of Katrina, they are now listening to us and they're leaving as we say," Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas said.
The Edgewater Retirement Community, a six-story building situated near the city's seawall, began evacuating its more than 200 nursing home patients and independent retirees by chartered bus and ambulance.
"They either go with a family member or they go with us, but this building is not safe sitting on the seawall with a major hurricane coming," said David Hastings, executive director. "I have had several say, `I don't want to go,' and I said, `I'm sorry, you're going."'
Other Texans who had ridden out major hurricanes along the Gulf Coast also boarded up windows, packed their valuables and started driving inland.
"We just want to go way out there, to be sure we are far enough away," said 61-year-old Christina Ybarrashe, a lifelong Galveston resident, as she boarded up their family home with plywood Tuesday.
Thomas said Galveston County officials used a law passed this year to order a mandatory evacuation of its coastal communities beginning Wednesday night. But authorities said they would not forcibly remove anyone from their homes.
Other parts of Texas also prepared for Rita.
Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday declared the state a disaster area and spoke with President Bush to request approval of federal aid to affected counties. Perry was expected to make an evacuation announcement later Wednesday.
The State Emergency Operations Center also went on 24-hour status, with 34 state agencies on site, Walt said.
The state Division of Emergency Management started moving food, water and other supplies to Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio in preparation for evacuees or to use in case of power outages in those areas.
After witnessing Katrina, Houston emergency managers modified traffic management plans and made the elderly and those with special needs a priority for evacuations.
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GePap
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Nov 2001
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Put an end to popups!
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Originally posted by SlowwHand
So mandates Governor Rick Perry in a televised new conference.
It's not up for discussion.
In 1961, Galveston was struck by Hurrican Carla, with wind speeds of 170 mph.
Aug. 17 - 18, 1969, Camille, the deadliest hurricane in
U.S. history, struck Galveston, with winds in excess of 200 mph and tides over 20 feet
What's an added factor, is that forecasts call for a shift to northerly winds Thursday night.
These will meet the warm rushing winds of the Gulf.
50,000 Louisiana evacuees are currently in Dallas alone.
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Camile hit Mississippi, NOT Texas.
Carla was a Category 4 went it made landfall, so its winds could not have been higher than 155 mph went it hit.
Tidbit, Carla was the first televised storm. Dan Rather reported from the top of Galveston's sea wall, the first TV reporter to do so.
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GePap
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of the Big Apple
Nov 2001
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Originally posted by SlowwHand
You need to get your facts right, bub.
It hit and slid and killed thousands in Texas.
Thanks for your meaningful, but inacurrate, input. |
Really?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Camille
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Impact
Camille directly killed 143 people along Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana as it devastated an enormous area of the Gulf Coast; the area of total destruction in Harrison County, Mississippi, alone was 68 square miles (176 km˛). An additional 113 people perished as a result of catastrophic flooding in Nelson County, Virginia. In all, 8,931 people were injured, 5,662 homes were destroyed, and 13,915 homes experienced major damage, with many of the fatalities being coastal residents who had refused to evacuate. The total estimated cost of damage was US$1.42 billion 1969 dollars, or 6.1 billion 1996 dollars. The damage was staggering at the time, but it was dwarfed by the ruinous 26 billion dollars in damage caused by Hurricane Andrew. It is expected to be dwarfed further by Hurricane Katrina, which affected the same area in 2005 and was described by those that experienced Camille as "much worse", primarily due to its much larger size (Camille was a very compact hurricane). |
Game. Set. Match.
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Tired of ads?
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quote:
Originally posted by SlowwHand
So mandates Governor Rick Perry in a televised new conference.
It's not up for discussion.
In 1961, Galveston was struck by Hurrican Carla, with wind speeds of 170 mph.
Aug. 17 - 18, 1969, Camille, the deadliest hurricane in
U.S. history, struck Galveston, with winds in excess of 200 mph and tides over 20 feet |
Uhh, no. While the deadliest (recorded) hurricane in US history did hit Galveston, it hit in 1900, not 1969, killing at least six thousand people.
Edit: OK, I feel slow.
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Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
How important is Galveston for oil shipping? |
The area is considered America's oil and petrochemical capital.
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But the dislocation and disruption caused by Rita will be economic as well as human. As of Tuesday, more than half of offshore oil output in the Gulf - a region that accounts for 33 per cent of US production - was still shut down because of damage from Katrina. |
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According to an oil analyst, Craig Smith, as many as 134 production rigs and 24 refineries lie in the possible path of Rita, a 300-mile wide storm with tropical storm force winds stretching 150 miles from its centre. He said: "The storm may weaken slightly before reaching land. But God help us if it stays as a category five. This one is headed right down the alley." |
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As of yesterday, Rita had forced oil companies to evacuate 15 rigs, cutting daily output from the Gulf of Mexico by 877,000 barrels a day, equivalent to about 4 per cent of US daily consumption. By the end of the week, the precautionary shutdown is likely to be total. How quickly things get back to normal is anyone's guess. Katrina's record storm surge - which tossed oil platforms onto beaches - is unlikely to be matched by Rita, according to James Williams, of WTRG Economics, an oil research company. But much depends on the exact path the storm takes. |
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SlowwHand
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of The Cooler
Sep 1999
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I made a mistake on Camille. Looked at a lot of information and confused myself.
At least I have the balls to admit it.
And idjits, if there are any, which I'm sure there could be, have no option.
Rick Perry, as I said, is not making it a choice.
It's taking approximately 22 hours to get from Houston to Huntsville. A little longer than the norm.
(Total Est. Time: 1 hour, 9 minutes
Total Est. Distance: 70.52 miles)
We have uncle, aunt, cousins on the way.
It's being reported that lodging is booked solid all the way to Tulsa, Oklahoma. (If it's being reported incorrectly, and someone's Uncle Lester has a garage apartment available, cut me some slack, ok?)
Texas coast braces for the worst
NOAA
Hurricane Rita grew into a monster storm with 175-mph sustained winds as it swirled toward the Gulf Coast, prompting more than 1.3 million residents in Texas and Louisiana to flee in hopes of avoiding a deadly repeat of Katrina.
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