Rita! - Appalachian Trail

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#1

Hey Gang, Long time no post, but I’ve been lurking all along. I’ve just spent the entire night securing my entire life. My wife, Children and I live just to the north and east of Houston. I’m sure your aware of that freaky little problem we are about to face. We will be fine as we have a place to go, but there are literally millions trying to leave with no idea where they are going. Please keep these people in your thoughts and prayers.
To all those in the impact area, God bless you and good luck.

John (BearKat) Fennessy

BearKat

#2

As I remember, you’re in the Huntsville area, right? Should be fine, just some wind. Your biggest problems will be all the evacuees heading to your area from Houston! Millions of them are stuck on HWY 45 as we speak. Same problem here in Brenham, as those heading out 290 arrive in our area. We still have almost 1000 Katrina evacuees and now millions are headed our way.

As for us, we’ll get some wind, maybe power outages, but we have our water, food, stove (my trusty pocket rocket) and we’ll be fine.

Red Hat

#3

will you be my meter maid? :happy

Beatle

#4

BearKat,
Saw the cleverest plywood sign on CNN tonight:

“The only Rita we need is a Margarita!!”

Keep faith and hang in there!

Best wishes,
BDD
GAME 05

Big Daddy D

#5

Huntsville may be OK, and Brenham…I’m 60 miles North of Beaumont…a tad apprehensive here…lots of trees and wind can be a bad combination…but like Red Hat…I’ll just sleep with my backpack and all the wonderful things for hiking…with that I can cook, sleep, etc.

The tragedy is all the people trying to get out at one time. Yes, pray for those in the strike area.

Susan (Creaky Bonze) Nixon

Creaky Bonze

#6

Well that was quite a little blow. Got home about an hour ago to find the place OK. Lots of wind, not as much rain as I thought we would get. Came back through Trinity to the north and it looks like it might have caught a micro burst or something, lot more damage there. We have to deal with lots of trees and limbs down, but overall not in to bad of shape. I understand that some of the towns just to the east of us took a real pounding.

The wierdest thing though, we live on campus (Sam Houston State)and from our balcony you would think we lived on an Army base. there are hundreds of military vehicles all around us. Guess this was where they were staged, the were not here when we left. Creaky is right though, now the big problem is nearly 2 million people trying to get home, this could get ugly.

Take care everybody, Thank you for the thoughts.

BearKat

#7

BearKat, If you live in Huntsville and at SAM, why did you want to leave last week? I spent 31 hours trying to get TO Huntsville from Friendswood which is only 96 miles south on I-45! Too bad that about 1/4 million other people from Houston and Galveston County also wanted to “refuge” in Huntsville. I had my wife and 84-year old father in law with me. My son is at SAM and lives a few blocks off Montgomery and that was the only place that we could hide through the storm. As it turned out, our home was fine and my son lost his power Friday night and Saturday.

Glad we all were safe and now back at home. (The return home trip took my usual 1 hour and 45 minutes on Saturday afternoon.)

In 2003, I hiked through the remnants of two hurricanes/tropical storms on Standing Bear Mt and the Smokies; and I have to admit that that was far more comfortable and enjoyable than that 31 hour highway (parking lot) nightmare!

Happy Trails,
Capt Bly

Capt. Bly