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between offers of poker and deer meat, i'm starting to wish i'd stuck around a little longer ;D

Ike Strengthens; Hurricane Warnings Issued For Texas, SW La. Coast UPDATED 7 AM CDT, September 12, 2008 UPDATED By WeatherBug Meteorologist, Chad Merrill Large and powerful Hurricane Ike is edging closer to the Texas coast as mandatory evacuations continue. The National Weather Service is urging all coastal residents under evacuation orders, especially those on Galveston Island, to leave or they "may face certain death." i'm glad to hear most of them are gone.

anyone heard comments on cnbc or twc about "certain death" if you stay in some areas? i haven't, but i've heard from two different people that they heard comments like that on those channels.

good luck and stay safe to those who stayed behind! if you have power, keep us updated on here!!!

i'm already evacuated, but in normal situations i'd be up for a game. do you play often?

does anyone else get the feeling this one might be worse for us than rita was? if nothing else, the large amount of people who aren't leaving is frightening.

after being held hostage by BISD until 6:15 this morning, we took off to head for dallas. 105 already looked way crowded, so we went 96 to marshall. for every car heading the same direction as us, i saw 40 going back towards beaumont. we ended up cutting over to dallas on 20, and we made it from beaumont to dallas in 5 hrs and 15 minutes, which is not really any slower than going by 45 when there isn't an evacuation. I can't believe we didn't hit any snags!!! if you haven't left yet, but are planning to, i'd suggest going through lumberton towards marshall. from what i hear, 10, 105, and 90 are all very congested.

Becky Ames is on tv lying as we speak. talking about how it was going to corpus, so they didn't call it yesterday, and that the storm had turned in the last 3 hours. how did i know, but she didnt?

Coop do you have that capability with your 49000+ post????? ;D ;D ;D coop gets to give karma and smites in sam's club sized quantities.

if they'd issue the dam evac i'd leave tonight and get the heck out of here! it would also help traffic tomorrow if say the 5-10% of us who would leave tonight could get out of everyone else's way!

i predict that by noon tomorrow somebody will have enough sense to call for a mandatory evacuation. of course, if they want, we can still host the game on 105 or 90, where we will all be moving approximately 2 mph.

man, the new projection is a lot closer to home! i guess we should've maybe been evacuated today? well, just think of all the money the county won't lose on transporting those in need, and all of the money that BISD can still make tomorrow.

geez coop, on that model, a lot more of those tracks are a lot closer to us!

the beaumont courthouse will be closing tomorrow at noon and be closed through the weekend. how about BISD, Dr. Thomas?

The 9:30PM meeting? i know a judge.

leaving it up to us means forcing many of us to stay. let's see how the meeting tonight at 9:30 goes.

we're in a "hurricane watch" area for a storm only a couple of days out, and people act like we're silly for being nervous.

it means you can leave but can't use it as an excuse for leaving.

And you trust what BPD says???? WOW! You're braver than most! not particularly. note the comment about being stuck in my car during landfall.

Gary Childress sounded a little nervous just now talking about Ike. He doesn't like that Ike is only going 8 mph instead of 10 or 12. He also doesn't like that it's moving northwesterly rather than westerly.

BPD is on tv right now talking about how they have contigency plans in place in case Ike does shift. They know how "unpredictable" these storms can be. I hope those plans involve crash courses on surviving hurricanes while in your car!

if those effects are 70 mph winds and several inches of rain, and that without the very possible eastward shift, i think it's time to go. Then leave. I'm not being flip about it. If you think it is not worth staying and getting into the crowd, go now. i teach for BISD. i can use a couple of personal days, but i'll take a ton of crap about it from my principal (and if a lot of teachers leave, then probably the superintendent). they're not going to cancel classes until there is an evacuation called. the problem with what is happening is that people are being forced to choose between safety and their jobs. it's not an enviable situation to be in. if the evacuation is called, people don't have to try to either explain themselves to their bosses or try to lie about why they are leaving.

if those effects are 70 mph winds and several inches of rain, and that without the very possible eastward shift, i think it's time to go.

i'm an employee of BISD, so i'm going to be upset if they wait long enough for me to be stuck here tomorrow, and then call for an evacuation on friday. i'll then end up having to evacuate with everyone else and spend 20 hours in traffic.

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