----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <brin-l@mccmedia.com> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 5:23 PM Subject: Re: Evacuation
> It's people who have been burning fuel in the crawl. The state is > sending in tanker trucks of fuel for those who are out of gas on the > highways. (I-45 and I-10 were the two roads I know about -- several > trucks were sent from Austin to Fayette County earlier today.) I realized that, but it's still amazing that folks don't try going down the street a bit to see if there is a less obvious gas station. > > If you get a chance to read this, Rob, I wish you all the best during > > the next few days....and thanks for your good wishes. I was going to > > offer to let you stay here before I read you had a place to go. We > > might have wind damage, but that should be it. When we had 20-40 > > inches of rain over 3 days back in '94, we were high and dry. We > > expect only about 2-10 inches, unless the storm stops further south > > than they are predicting. I think we'll be OK until the rainfall is > > up to 40 inches in 3 days. > > Good luck, and I hope the wind doesn't get you badly. The latest forecast is for winds to get up to the '50s. > The hippo on the front porch isn't going anywhere. If it does, all > the front windows of the house will have blown out already.) Two questions, Did Dan really gain that much weight since I saw him last? :-) Why won't he go in the house? > Oh, and our relatives near Sugarland are opting to ride it out. I hope > they know what they're doing. (If they change their minds in the next > 18 hours, we have space for them, but after that, any of our friends > contacting us get to use the space.) Sugarland's forecast is up to around 60, so sheltering in place would seem reasonable to me....as long as the hurricane doesn't go left of it's predicted path. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
