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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard With the possibility of tropical storm Rita becoming a hurricane today, and with it heading into the Gulf of Mexico, FEMA announced last night the re-evacuation of the evacuees housed at the Astrodome and GR Brown Convention center. Starting today, they will begin bussing the dome folks to Ellington Field, where they will be flown to a camp in Arkansas, or anywhere in the continental US for free. If Rita becomes a cat 4 or stronger, and if Houston suffers a direct hit, the flood plain extends from Galveston Island inland to west of IH10 and the outskirts of Houston, which is 45 miles inland. A storm surge like that which hit New Orleans might manage to food that area for a day or two... Houston is recalling all it power company crews from Louisiana, and has published evacuation routes inland. Galveston Island and Galveston County have already issues a voluntary evacuation request, beginning today 09/20/05 at 1400 hours (2:00pm.) Residents of the Gulf plains are urged NOT to come to Houston, but to continue further inland to Bryan/College Station, Brenham, Huntsville, as Houston itself may issue an evacuation order as early as Wednesday, and currently the availability of motel and hotels rooms here is almost zero. Roughly anywhere east of Houston, there are no rooms to be had, and in the city proper, no motel reports any reasonable amount of space left. If you evac, remember, we no longer have space for any more people, so head for the hill country! Ed [/quote] That's exactly where we're going, to the hill country, Kerrville to be exact. My son said if it got bad we could come up there for the weekend. Good excuse to go visit anyway. If it goes where they predict, it will come right over us. If it came up through Matagorda bay, through Port Lavaca or Victoria, we could have some problems. We're only about 60 miles north of there. I'm not worrying, as there's not much we can do about it. mike
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