Hurricane Party

[timewalker]

Here in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, they were giving us all kind of dire predictions about what Ike was going to do - high winds, lots of rain, possible tornadoes. In the end, we had a couple nice rain showers and that was about it. Most of the bad stuff went to our East. Lubbock (out in West Texas) actually got hit with 8 inches of rain from a Pacific storm. If you have ever been to Lubbock, you know what that means to a town which is flat as a board and has no storm sewers.

Some of my wife's family in New Orleans has had more trouble from Ike than from Gustav. The levee broke and their house is now an island. Fortunately, the water is not rising any more.

Say a prayer for those down in Houston and Galveston, however. I have talked to some folks I work with down there and it's pretty bad. Fortunately for me, my trip there for today got cancelled.

[Capt Coxetter]

I lived through Katrina, that was enough of a hurricane party for me.

Jim

[unionblue]

Captain,

I went through Eva in Hawaii and countless (it seemed) typhoons in Okinawa.

More than enough and I know exactly what you mean.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

[mt155]

I have been going over to the island everyday day this past week trying to get the telephone network up and running again. There are 4 central offices that serve the whole of Galveston and two are pretty much gone. We are turning up COWS (******** on wheels) to help establish better communications until we can get the two central offices that are down up and running again. Here are two pics I took the other day (one is blurry since I was in a moving car at the time).

Mike T.

[Bonny Blue Flag]

I think they call this job security.

Make sure you are up-to-date with your tetanus vaccine.

--BBF