Calm Before the storm

The traffic situation with the evacuees is insane. I am really worried about all the people stuck on the freeway when Rita rolls in. I feel much better about staying here now. I was going to go a little north to parents house, but the further East Rita moves, the more I thought it would be okay to stay. If I have to be stranded somehwere without power, I would rather be here with all my clothes and books than to sit around in the same 3 outfits in the swealtering heat and none of my things.

My friend Jose sent me a text message last night around 1 AM. He was in Loveland and was looking for a hotel. He had his family in his SUV, and the traffic made them 10 hours late for their hotel reservations and the room was gone. He had been driving around for Hours looking for a room. I looked up a bunch of different Hotel 800 numbers to see if they could find an open room for him.

Today at around 11 AM, he sent another text message asking if roads were open to come back into Houston. I am guessing they never found a room. He said people were getting into fights at the gas pumps over fuel. He was sick before he left and driving around in the 100 degree heat wasn't helping. I am sure he used little to no AC to conserve fuel.

I assumed the roads are open to come back as they have closed the contra flow lanes.

Con is in heaven. We have lifted the TV and gameboy ban for the duration of the Hurricane time and he is currently watching Buffy. and reading while we still have light. When there is no light he will switch to gameboy.


Took a few more pics of my area pre-Rita

( Lets hope it stays the same )

waiting

Our cats spent the morning beating the living crap out of each other. That is unusual. The play often, but usually snuggle a lot. Saffie kept biting Bodhi on the nuts. That really seemed to piss him off. Now they are exhausted and sacked out. I am interested in how they will react when the winds really start kicking up.

I am filling up and enjoying coffee while I still have the ability to make some. I should be beautifully wired and on edge when the hurricane comes. That is what everyone really needs, I am sure.
 
I just saw the weather channel and it says, I shit you not, 8 PM tonigh "A rumble of thunder and possibly rain" lol. That is more optimistic than I was being. It also said that Sunday should be windy.


I keep going outside to take pics. We went out side to throw out the garbage that we have. This is what we found:

( non sky pics )

Little bit of darkness rolling in.

Dumbass reporting

Channel 2 in Houston is the most retarded ass news channel. Aside from the fact that they have "weather dog" named Radar that they freakin' talk about all the time, they also have the most dramatic damn reports. Every story sounds like it should have the "Duhn duhn duuuuuuuuuhn" dramatic music backing it up.

There is some guy at a coastal city pointing out the big ships that are housing all the emergency vehicles and trash trucks so that they don't get flooded like in NOLA.

He decides to point out that they are gassed up and have the keys in them.

brilliant.

should have added, "...and they are located at XXX address. If you have GPS, the coordinates are XX XXX..."

because noone in the coastal Texas cities needs a gassed up truck right now.

I am off to take a lovely shower because I may not be able to later.