"Galveston and The Rest Of The Texas Gulf Coast WILL NOT Be Another New Orleans"

[Verto]

Originally posted by joncha

Texas is gonna kick Rita's ass. We don't play around like Louisiana.

[chequita guevara]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Rita

[Daz]

Mass hysteria increases sales.

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by joncha

QFinsightful advice

[Solly]

I don't suppose there are as many uncivilised brutes in texas as there were looting in NOrleans?

[SlowwHand]

I made a mistake on Camille. Looked at a lot of information and confused myself.
At least I have the balls to admit it.

And idjits, if there are any, which I'm sure there could be, have no option.
Rick Perry, as I said, is not making it a choice.

It's taking approximately 22 hours to get from Houston to Huntsville. A little longer than the norm.
(Total Est. Time: 1 hour, 9 minutes
Total Est. Distance: 70.52 miles)

We have uncle, aunt, cousins on the way.
It's being reported that lodging is booked solid all the way to Tulsa, Oklahoma. (If it's being reported incorrectly, and someone's Uncle Lester has a garage apartment available, cut me some slack, ok?)


Texas coast braces for the worst


NOAA

Hurricane Rita grew into a monster storm with 175-mph sustained winds as it swirled toward the Gulf Coast, prompting more than 1.3 million residents in Texas and Louisiana to flee in hopes of avoiding a deadly repeat of Katrina.

[Japher]

I blame Bush, because he hates blacks

[TheStinger]

If Rita is bigger than katrina will there be some Texans who take a sort of perverse pride in that?

[SlowwHand]

Rita is bigger than Katrina.
The possibility is very real that it will become biggest in USA history.

[SlowwHand]

This satellite image taken by NASA's MODIS Rapid Response System at 12:10 p.m. EDT Wednesday Sept. 21, 2005 shows Hurricane Rita over the Gulf of Mexico. Gaining strength with frightening speed,, Hurricane Rita swirled toward the Gulf Coast a Category 5, 165-mph monster Wednesday as more than 1.3 million people in Texas and Louisiana were sent packing on orders from authorities who learned a bitter lesson from Katrina. (AP Photo/NASA)

[Makahlua]

Originally posted by TheStinger
If Rita is bigger than katrina will there be some Texans who take a sort of perverse pride in that?

Yes. Yes, there will. You know how much we like to say "Everything's bigger in Texas!", right?

/me just hopes her cousins were smart and got out of Houston early....

[SlowwHand]

Oh, well. Try it this way.

Nothing seems to be working for me first try lately.

[SlowwHand]

This is a cool picture. I like pictures.

[C0ckney]

that's bloody massive

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
How important is Galveston for oil shipping?

But up an esturary from Gavelston Bay is the port of Houston, the largest concetraion of refinaries in the USA. A short distances either way of the coast from Gaveston are other major oil terminals/refinaries/Chemical plants: Texas City on the bay just behind Galveston; Freeport and Brazosport to the south; Baytown on the Bay; Port Arthur on Sabine 'Lake'.