Well, around here it's been Hurricane Rita 24x7 and it's only getting worse.
Wednesday was the last day of work; all "non-essential" personnel were sent home for the duration of the crisis. It took about two hours just to get home here west of Houston.
Our school district (finally) cancelled classes, we have gas in the cars, and an open invitation to bunk with family in Dallas. But the traffic jams as a million people from coastal Texas evacuate through the region have made it pointless to leave, at least right now.
We have supplies and Bedlam Manor is reasonably secure, but the forecast storm track currently shows the eye passing over our neighborhood after landfall at Freeport Friday night/Saturday morning. Not good.
Eric Berger, the Science Guy blogger at the Houston Chronicle said tonight:
The current track for Rita is just about as bad as you could imagine for the Houston-Galveston area.Unless the storm turns south or north in the next 24 to 48 hours we are set up for a truly horrific event. I am not going to sugar-coast this, my friends. If the storm comes ashore as forecast, it would essentially be the worst-case scenario...
Stay or go, wish us luck and send a few prayers up to the Big Guy -- we're going to need it.
Posted by Alan at September 22, 2005 02:07 AM