Texas Gardening: Hurrican Rita, just in case...., 1 by heycharlie

heycharlie wrote:
Watching tha news, seeing things I aint never done seen before.
Like others here I have friends and relatives in Houston, up and down tha coast.

I am enclosing a pic, collage taken about 11:30 this date.
Heard so much about running out of water and gas. I pulled a hose out front and painted a sign saying free water.

Many have taken us up on that, to drink.
I have seen little boys and girls striped and washed.
Grown people wetting their heads and upper bodies.
Radiators filled. Found a shade tree for one group to replace a water pump.

I noticed several stopping last night, jus getting off tha highway for a while.
Same thing today. many have small children, some jus average folks.
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One young man told me how long he had been driving. Commented he had never drove over 5 hours in his life.

My pic shows the traffic here, 60 odd miles out from Houston.
I understand I-45 has traffic backed up 100 miles. Ouch!
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Hey QueenB that lives down tha road from me!
I'm one mile north of the Shell Station on tha East side. Traffic isn't so good here.
It'll shoot up for a few minutes and back to woah.

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The eye was going to pass over us, still is but it has drifted a little east & with a little luck may drift more toward Beaumont. Be nice ta get out of that eye & tha dirty side.
Reta is 85 miles accross so theres no way it can miss much

This message was edited Sep 22, 2005 4:02 PM