Ike

[Childbride]

i just talked to kinfolk.

i was worried, b/c where gram lives, there's a highway that frontages the ranch. with a creek. and it floods. i was worried that my 89 year old gram would be cut off from food, water, etc.

they are expecting up to 25 inches of rain there. kin promised to get her early and camp her, but i have kin on the coast, too... including the by-proxy.

to all of our texas fretters, may you and yours be safe.

k

 

[warren0728]

take care you texas fretters....stay safe....sending mojo your direction!

ww

 

[Katastrophe]

Headed down to Corpus Christi tomorrow to evacuate an old family friend. We're far enough inland that we'll get some rain and heavy storms, but should be okay.

Be safe, fellow Fretters.

 

[piebaldpython]

Hey Texans,
Time to batten down the hatches and get all of y'all inland and safe. I'll be praying for you. I feel for y'all as I myself just weathered TS FAY while in Florida and then HANNA this past weekend up in Philly. I have had just about enough of these STORMS

CB; best of luck to GRAM and the by-proxy.

 

[sumitomo]

25 inches WOW!!! I will pray hard for ya'll down there hang on and be safe.Sumi

 

[street music]

All of you in Texas , GET OUT NOW! You best move up our way, you can leave BUSH there if you wish.

 

[evenkeel]

CB, Shiner and all the Texas fretters. Stay safe. Ike looks big and ugly. Heading out of town seems a pretty safe bet.

Hope all ends up well.

 

[Bloozcat]

I'm hoping and praying for the best for Texas...

We sweated it out for a week, but were spared. So we know the anxiety...

 

[warren0728]

good luck....we got our local city newsletter today and it says we got 19.5 inches of rain with fay....hope you guys get a lot less than that!

ww

 

[just strum]

Hang tight and let us know when all has subsided.

Did Shiner buy enough beer to hold him over?

Seriously, you two take care.

 

[luvmyshiner]

Did Shiner buy enough beer to hold him over?

Do you have to ask?:beer:

 

[street music]

Shiner, you be sure that you pack CB carefully we don't want anything to happen to her and make sure that the kids know that you want beer to rationed out very carefully , and those guitars can still be shipped out to us tomorrow morning.

 

[luvmyshiner]

Heh, heh, you got it Street. CB's by-proxy lives in Houston, but he's flying out tomorrow morning to surprise his mother for her 50th birthday, so he should be ok. We're expecting a lot of rain, which we really need, but hopefully nothing really damaging. I guess it means I'll just have to spend the weekend inside playing guitar.:thwap: I hate it when that happens.:bravo:

 

[sumitomo]

Sounds like the cow will be a pissin' on the flat rock.Sumi

 

[Childbride]

there's a co-worker of mine that amped me... he used to live in houston and was giving me ike reports twice a day.

i am normally relatively calm in a crisis.

i go back to my normal.

by-proxy is only worried about property damage and his flight back in.

ike hasn't gotten past a 2.

gram is safe.

should just be a wind/rainfest, and we need the rain.

my big happy is that texas didn't do what they did when rita hit in 05 and scream 'ALL Y'ALL LEAVE NOW' and lock up the highways with people stuck like sitting ducks. they've only evacuated the counties with the lowest sea levels.

although the by-proxy commented tonight he had to spend 45 min trying to google a gas station that still had gas... :thwap:

 

[PAPPY]

As of right now if Ike stays even close to the predicted course I doubt that we will even get a rain here. I sure hope I'm wrong as we are certainly dry here, so dry in fact that I was running my beagles the other day and a mesquite tree started chasing my male beagle. The ranchers here are really hurting for stock water so maybe we will get some running water.

 

[luvmyshiner]

. . . so dry in fact that I was running my beagles the other day and a mesquite tree started chasing my male beagle.

:rotflmao: I'd pay money to see that Pappy.

 

[Childbride]

you want some more mesquite trees? i have a fortune in that. geezly crow, if they made guitars out of mesquite, i'd be rich.

Pappy, i don't think it's going to be nearly as bad if goes easterly like they say. but i hope that we get some rain, and that people at large don't get hit badly.

we all need some rain.

 

[luvmyshiner]

Hmmm, I don't know what Mesquite is like as a tone wood, but I do know it can make some beautiful pieces to work with. It might be interesting to see how a guit would turn out.

 

[Childbride]

honey, i can hook you up. :rotflmao:

 

[Katastrophe]

Took care of evacuating my friend (actually, my Godfather) yesterday. Unfortunately, Ike's move north put him making landfall near Houston. My Mom and Stepdad, along with other step-relatives, live there.

I'm worried. Mom, Stepdad, Stepbrother, his significant other and their newborn baby are going to weather the storm at their house. They are on the high side of the neighborhood, but the other side floods easily and they might not be able to get out if necessary. Then there is the little matter of the 20 or so pine trees that surround their house that are very tall, and old.

 

[Bloozcat]

Anyone anywhere near the coastal areas around Galveston Bay should have already evacuated. Due to the size of this storm it's going to be a prolonged wind event with an even worse storm surge.

The NHC is predicting a storm surge as high as a 25' in Galveston Bay. Ike is currently a cat 2 hurricane with 105 mph winds, but some strengthening is still expected before landfall (possibly to a cat 3 - 115-125 mph). And speaking of landfall, hurricane winds currently extend out 120 miles from the center. That means that winds of at least 74 mph can be expected 120 miles from the center. Tropical storm force winds extend out 275 miles from the center, meaning that winds of at least 39 mph can be expected out to 275 miles. As of 6:00 am Central Time this morning, tide levels are already running 3' above normal at Galveston and North Getty. Tide levels will continue to rise as the hurricane approaches. I don't know what the tides are, but I can only hope that low tide is around 2:00 am Central time when the hurricane is predicted to hit.

This is one scary hurricane that's headed straight for a very vulnerable area. I surely hope all our Texas friends and their families have gotten out of Dodge already and are safely to higher ground. Thoughts and prayers will continue...it's in God's hands now...

 

[street music]

I wish all the residents in Texas a safe weekend from this storm, we need the remaining rain sent up the way of Kentucky. Hang on down there and play lots of guitar Shiner and CB.

 

[PAPPY]

Shiner, take a look at this

http://www.shorelinemusic.com/archives/fylde_magician.shtml

I saw and heard a fiddle a while back made out of mesquite and was impressed.

 

[luvmyshiner]

Man, that is pretty Pappy.

 

[Childbride]

Kat... i send prayers for your family's safety. i have some friends hunkerin' down in houston, and they've promised to keep me posted about their well-being.

prayers to all our texas brethren on the coast, for that matter. i just saw a model of what a 20' surge would do to galveston [cover it darned near completely] and if the surge goes up the bayous and channels in houston, things are going to be pretty bad.

this is us for the weekend:

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClic...FWD&textField1=31.569&textField2=-97.1832&e=0

but i'm not worried about us [edit: at all]. i'm worried for south of us.

 

[bigoldron]

I hope everyone's safe, especially our Fretters from that area. The bad thing so far is that everyone around here is panicking about the possibility of a gas shortage, so they're buying it up. Several merchants have already run out and the price jumped from 3.649 to almost $5/gallon. This is (to me) absolutely ridiculous, because many places are not being affected at this time.

 

[luvmyshiner]

I gotta agree with ya Ron. It's absolutely ridiculous. I've got gas right now that I would be more than happy to sell for less then $1.00 a gallon. . . If anyone could figure out how to use it.:thwap:

 

[street music]

Hopefully you Texans have survived the worst of it, and Shiner I'm sure that there is the knowledge is out there to use your gas to power something besides a guitar, it just wouldn't make them any money. I advise you to let CB get a copyright on it for future times.

 

[just strum]

Watching on TV and reading the web. I'm sure at least some of you are without power. I'm not sure if any of you headed further west to stay out of the path, but 600 miles wide makes it difficult to do.

Thoughts are with all of you today and the days to come.