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Wish Us luck, it's going to get windy and wet
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:52 pm
by kings-x59
Re: Wish Us luck, it's going to get windy and wet
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:09 pm
by GEJ
I will take a momment tonight for a good thought for you.Take care my fellow Artrosafari brother.
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Re: Wish Us luck, it's going to get windy and wet
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:10 pm
by skippy
That sux dude !!! I hope everything goes ok for you .
Re: Wish Us luck, it's going to get windy and wet
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:12 pm
by astrozam
Good luck ridin her out,battin down ye o'le hatches
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Re: Wish Us luck, it's going to get windy and wet
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:13 pm
by astronut74
Wow, I need to watch the news more often. Last I heard it was heading for Louisana. Well, good luck, hope you need the rain! Sometimes these storms can be a good thing. Say for instance, if you're in the middle of a drought. So do you plan on boarding up the house? Or do you only do that for the "big" ones? Around here we have some folks that will put up their shutters at the sign of the first hurricane and not take them down till the seasons over!!!
Re: Wish Us luck, it's going to get windy and wet
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 6:05 pm
by CaptSquid
You can always move up here to Montana. We don't know what a hurricane is and we seldom see twisters.
Re: Wish Us luck, it's going to get windy and wet
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:21 am
by kings-x59
Captain, subzero weather and me don't agree.
The well wishes are appreciated, and apparently worked.
The storm sped up overnight. The forecast yesterday was for it to make landfall around 1pm. It's about 6:15 am and it's moving onshore now. The good thing is that it didn't hang out over the gulf longer and strengthen.
As long as it doesn't spawn any tornadoes, this shouldn't be too bad. Not a good day to be out driving around though. The streets in Houston flood and all the little ricer cars gridlock the city. And like all rain events, the drivers' IQ seems to diminish at an inverse rate relative to the amount of rainfall. If you can't see the curbs, don't drive your honda car into it.
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Re: Wish Us luck, it's going to get windy and wet
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:01 am
by LiftedAWDAstro
Good luck riding out the storm. Take lots of pics of those sunk ricers!
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Re: Wish Us luck, it's going to get windy and wet
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:51 am
by CaptSquid
What sub-zero weather? It's been in the 90s with one big plus -- 0% humidity.
Re: Wish Us luck, it's going to get windy and wet
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:00 pm
by s10-den
Yall just went through that not to long ago, now another....
I hate hurricane season...
Re: Wish Us luck, it's going to get windy and wet
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:52 pm
by GEJ
Kings-59-How ya holding up??.
Re: Wish Us luck, it's going to get windy and wet
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:30 pm
by justice
it rained some..i worked from home all day...not much wind to speak of.
Re: Wish Us luck, it's going to get windy and wet
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 4:11 pm
by kings-x59
GEJ wrote: Kings-59-How ya holding up??.
Held up just fine, as mentioned, not much wind and not all that much rain either, varied depending on what part of town you happened to be in 2.5" some places, 5" others.
I hung out at the house until the first bad rain bands hit the northwest side of town. Once I saw things were not so bad, I fired up the 'stro and went on in to work.
The storm moved out of town fast enough for me to catch my 4:30 pm flight to Boston this past Tuesday.
I had more trouble with weather in Newark than I did in Houston - delayed flight, then canceled. Spent an extra night in Boston. Just rolled back into town this afternoon.