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miguelito
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Then they should just make the cone 1/3 bigger.  Duh.

crimsonlonghorn
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Those of us in Houston are so goddam lucky right now. 

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What website y'all using as the best tracker this morning?  It's too early to turn the TV on and wake the kids, but weather.com is running slow due to traffic I'm sure.  

 

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1 hour ago, Wally Fairway said:

More like forecasters, looking at you Weather Channel, suck donkey balls.

I went to bed with scarecasts of 9-12+ ft storm surge, wake up to reports of 3-5 ft surge. And they wonder why people under respond to approaching storms.

I’m sure the people on the ground there are disappointed as well that the storm surge came in under projections. You might want to give the sun time to come up.

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Yeah, waking up knowing Galveston is fine (my home)  is a relief.  Waiting to hear from a neighbor about power, but going home today. 

Dodged a bullet,  I feel like the bomb missed us. Really feel for the folks who got slammed, it hurts to see those pictures of Lake Charles 

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 Feeling incredibly grateful here in Lufkin.  A few doses of some much needed rain.  A few breezes.  By dawn, the rain is done and all is dead calm.  Gonna be a normal day around here.  Relieved and grateful for my piney wooded homestead.

 

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13 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Now, we as a city, state, society, etc need to prepare better in case this happens again in 3 weeks, 3 years, etc

 

 

just kidding... this near miss wont change anyones minds about anything

Do you live every moment of every day worried as fuck?

Geeze...

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17 minutes ago, Dewey said:

Yeah, waking up knowing Galveston is fine (my home)  is a relief.  Waiting to hear from a neighbor about power, but going home today. 

Dodged a bullet,  I feel like the bomb missed us. Really feel for the folks who got slammed, it hurts to see those pictures of Lake Charles 

I live in Clear Lake.  I work in La Porte.  We didn't see a thing.  Galveston is fine.  It hit so far east it was nothing.  I was at the plant last night praying nothing would trip us.  It was completely nothing

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19 minutes ago, Dewey said:

Yeah, waking up knowing Galveston is fine (my home)  is a relief.  Waiting to hear from a neighbor about power, but going home today. 

Dodged a bullet,  I feel like the bomb missed us. Really feel for the folks who got slammed, it hurts to see those pictures of Lake Charles 

Power still on at Tiki. 

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somewhere I saw a wind speed map for Jasper and Newton county.  the winds went right down the county line with Newton getting the short end of the stick. I have a place in Hardin county also, neighbor already called and said don't worry about coming back soon.  Everything OK.  F'n lucky as dog with 2 dicks.  Louisiana governor told the people that stayed to put their SSN and next of kin in a ziplock bag and put in their pockets. 

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9 minutes ago, FartingMonk said:

I live in Clear Lake.  I work in La Porte.  We didn't see a thing.  Galveston is fine.  It hit so far east it was nothing.  I was at the plant last night praying nothing would trip us.  It was completely nothing

Just got off the phone with a neighbor,  she said power is still on, never went out, streets are dry, nothing. 

Extremely lucky 

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Anyone have any news on Port Arthur, Beaumont, etc...  Seems like storm surge was not as bad as advertised for those areas?

My dad in Beaumont west end never lost power, just some wind and a little rain. Stepbrother power is out. Bullet dodged though, relatively speaking.

 

When they can they are going to drive by and tell me how my house faired. Headed back to Beaumont tomorrow probably.

 

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You're acting as though the ship channel isn't already an environmental disaster.
Touche'.
This is getting ridiculous. People in Houston are still acting like this thing is heading straight for Galveston Bay. The replies to every SpaceCity or Jeff LIndner tweet are along the lines of "I don't think it's gonna turn, getting real worried here in (insert Houston suburb.)"
Look at this gif. For the last 90+ minutes, the eye has been heading NNW at something resembling a 345 degree bearing. It's going exactly where they said. 
This is why "never read the comments" is good life advice.
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Some possible relatively good news, reports that the surge may have underperformed.  11' near Cameron, lower than Rita.
It was projected at 9+ feet yeah? 11 > 9?

Hopefully the surge wasn't as bad as what those forecasts were showing. Making landfall in any actual swamp outs an added layer of difficulty there.
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14 hours ago, austingirl said:

Husband's grandma and three aunts are still in Lake Charles. Mawmaw is in her 90s and in very ill health and they really don't think she could handle an evacuation. It is a shitty rock and a shitty hard place. I don't expect to get much sleep tonight.

Everyone's alive and the house is still standing. Storm surge didn't get to them but there's tons of wind damage - front porch destroyed, huge trees down everywhere, fence down, etc. Basically what you'd expect from Cat 4 winds and tornados, but all in all it could've been much worse. 

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31 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

for everyone that missed jeff's wife's grifting in the middle of the height of the storm in chucktown

well done hank

The grifting was definitely a low point during the whole thing.  Also, his screams of "If you're international media, stop calling me." and "If you use my footage you're going to pay me." came across as very unprofessional.  I get it, it's his livelihood and I agree he should be paid for his efforts but sort out your business at another time.

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1 minute ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

The grifting was definitely a low point during the whole thing.  Also, his screams of "If you're international media, stop calling me." and "If you use my footage you're going to pay me." came across as very unprofessional.  I get it, it's his livelihood and I agree he should be paid for his efforts but sort out your business at another time.

I feel like you're expectations of Jeff may be a tad inflated for who he really is.

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4 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

Any word on Port Arthur.  New reports I've found so far don't indicate much damage, but one of my employees with family there said that a number of houses took some pretty bad damage.  

On the Houston news this morning they were showing downed trees and some damaged roofs, but honestly, the Port A and Beaumont area dodged the bullet in a major way. 

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1 hour ago, Message Board User said:

Laura may join some rare company tonight.

That's not how landfalls work... They always weaken as they approach land the speed taken at landfall is when the eye crosses on to land but by that point the landmass has already started slowing the storm down not to mention Laura is making landfall at night.  You'd need a 4-5pm landfall and a much stronger hurricane to join that list.

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3 minutes ago, crimsonlonghorn said:

The unsaid part of this is that the bridge is still there. 

Yeah, I mean....having a giant casino on a barge hit it probably HELPED its structural integrity.

Crossed that bridge 7 months ago with the family....as we started up the bridge, I started telling them about how it was perhaps the worst-maintained, most dangerous bridge in America.  Man, they were pissed at me for the next coupla minutes till we finished crossing.

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