Hurricane Gustav

[Free For All]

will probably head to either San Antonio or Austin tomorrow night.

Standing in line for plywood at Lowe's. Life doesn't any better'n that, eh?

Well, try to have some fun while you're out of town. Perhaps a visit to Mi Tierra in San Antone, or perhaps an Austin hang with Lon, Shawn, SS or any other Texas Orgamaniacs. If you're not too busy hunkerin' down, that is!

And yes, all the best to anyone else in the path of Ike, hopefully the MF will blow through with minimum impact.

[JSngry]

Is Texas gonna have to rename itself Tina?

[Aggie87]

National Weather Service is saying that anyone on Galveston Island and the Texas coast that's going to get hit, who are in 1 or 2 story buildings and choose to stay face CERTAIN DEATH.

The mayor of Galveston was on tv earlier, saying that 75% of the island (or the town, not sure which she was referring to) had been evacuated. I hope the remaining 25% don't choose to try and ride it out.

This thing's getting scary.

[Free For All]

Are you going anywhere Agg? Even though it's going to hit north of you are you expecting any extreme nastiness in Corpus?

[Aggie87]

<wannabe musician> I have a gig in San Antonio starting tomorrow </wannabe musician> I booked a hotel room in S.A. a day before the rush I guess, so I got lucky.

I'm watching the news - our local Padre Island beaches are starting to flood a bit already this evening. And they're saying that water *will* be all the way to the west side of Port Aransas (throughout the town I guess). I'm not sure what that really means as far as overall flooding, but it doesn't sound real good.

Weather guy just said our local storm surge will be 5'.

Edited September 12, 2008 by Aggie87

[clifford_thornton]

Hey, I'm in Austin and still paranoid about this fucker. My folks are in Houston and that also has me worried.

[Free For All]

Good luck to all. Prepare for the worst & hope for the best.

I'm watching the Weather Channel and it looks like the tropical wind warnings extend all the way through Dallas to the Oklahoma border. I'm afraid this may get nasty.

[Dan Gould]

It doesn't look like its going to strengthen as much as they predicted (second Gulf storm in a row not to strengthen as much, may be time to re-jigger the models?) but this is still going to do some major damage. I just wish the damage could be reserved only for the bible humpers who were trying to make it go away earlier in the week. Good luck to all.

[sidewinder]

Hope you guys are all OK..

[AndrewHill]

Yeah, hope is everything is ok there too. Ike looks bad, very bad from those satellite images

[BERIGAN]

Thank God it's not this big and with 150 MPH winds! Sounds like it's almost too big to gain strength.

[BERIGAN]

And anyone that would stay on Galveston is just bat shit crazy!

[Shawn]

They are still predicting 25-30 mph winds in Austin, with about 2-3 inches of rain. It's been so dry here that should get soaked up almost immediately. Yet I'm still not overly thrilled that I have to drive to work tomorrow morning at 6:30am...

I feel sorry for the people south of here...Agg...get the hell outta dodge!!!