*HURRICANE IKE AFTERMATH AND COMMENTS*

[grizzly62]

Coop your the man

[Guest baseball25]

We got the good side of rita buddy..we are about to get the bad side of ike...if at freeport 90mph wind are very bad plus with alot of rain  bands coming at you the whole time..with rita we didn't get alot of rain....you got to understand the bad side and the good side of a storm.

[LUFAN]

I agree Coop is the man. I also agree that we need to take a chill pill or crack open a cold one and relax a bit. We have no control over where it is going to go. It is not up to us where this storm is going to go... We can only do what we can to minimize the effects. No matter what someone is going to get drilled by this big bad storm. If it is not us we need to remember how lucky we are and we need to try to help those folks in any way we can. And if it does turn our way I would hope that they would reach their hands out to us to help pick us up off the ground.

[PURPLE 4EVER]

The plan from the Galveston mayor....

"The city is also going to provide shelters on the island, but not until Friday. Mayor Thomas also has asked people who stay to shelter in place. "

I think Nagin had the same idea....

[tvc184]

Again......

If meteorologists knew when, where and how strong a storm was going to be when it hit, there would be no debate.

There are no computer models, hunches, guesses or anything else that can tell when, where and how hard a hurricane is going to strike.

Educated guesses can be made on current data but even that is subject to change ever couple of hours. This is not an exact science.

[Guest baseball25]

Do you know why everyone is freaking out its becasue it was supposed to be going wnw all day today and its been going nw all day thats a big difference..also it was supposed to pick up speed and it hasn't and its stuck at 8mph and thats not good...This is a huge storm i mean huge thats what y'all don't understand..I keep in touch with 2 meteoroloigist that know there stuff and there worried..

[82 5A State Champs]

We got the good side of rita buddy..we are about to get the bad side of ike...if at freeport 90mph wind are very bad plus with alot of rain  bands coming at you the whole time..with rita we didn't get alot of rain....you got to understand the bad side and the good side of a storm.

I do understand the good side and the bad side of a storm, buddy! I was simply saying to calm down. We will most likely not see the kind of damage that Rita created if it makes landfall in Freeport. Making comments like the one's you made only make alot of people more ancy.

[LUFAN]

Baseball if you are so worried you should just leave. You are not doing anything but fritzing people out. We should be nervous we have no control over this thing.

[KDOSullivan]

Baseball if you are so worried you should just leave. You are not doing anything but fritzing people out. We should be nervous we have no control over this thing.

EXACTLY!

[82 5A State Champs]

Baseball if you are so worried you should just leave. You are not doing anything but fritzing people out. We should be nervous we have no control over this thing.

Thank You!!! If he keeps it up, I'm just gonna start deleting his posts!

[Guest baseball25]

I am going to leave just not leaving tonight...i am not trying to scare anyone just speaking the truth man...glaveston is already in a bind not evacuating i just don't want our area to get in a bind...

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

The plan from the Galveston mayor....

"The city is also going to provide shelters on the island, but not until Friday. Mayor Thomas also has asked people who stay to shelter in place. "

I think Nagin had the same idea....

....and we all know what happened after that >.

just called my fam, their not leaving unless its still moving NW in the morning.  :-\

gotta feeling Louisiana is going to be welcoming some good ol' Texas folks  8)

[82 5A State Champs]

I am going to leave just not leaving tonight...i am not trying to scare anyone just speaking the truth man...glaveston is already in a bind not evacuating i just don't want our area to get in a bind...

Well, if we are left in a bind then you can thank your elected leaders for that!

[LUFAN]

Well thanks for you concern baseball, but we need to take a calm look at our situation with the most up to date information that we have. We will have 2 or more updates before morning to make a more educated guess.

[LUFAN]

Those folks who are making the decisions do not want anything bad to happen to their constituent... how would they get re elected.... Wait Wait never mind look at Ray Nagin.. I guess that is what I get for being optimistic.

[Guest baseball25]

kfdm just said on tv that expect cat 1 friday night and sat or cat 2 winds...there going to leave it up to us to evacuate becasue they have waited so long to pull the trigger...I just don't want people to get stuck in this area...

[82 5A State Champs]

kfdm just said on tv that expect cat 1 friday night and sat or cat 2 winds...there going to leave it up to us to evacuate becasue they have waited so long to pull the trigger...I just don't want people to get stuck in this area...

[bullets13]

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

[Guest baseball25]

so they want people to stay in 96-110 mph I just don't get it....

[LUFAN]

BASEBALL it is simple. We have limited resources and they went to the place where they thought would be most effected.

[HoopInsider_Cooper]

Believe me, I work for The Examiner....We will LOOK INTO that my friend!!!!

[KFDM COOP]

Well they need to bring their Butts up the coast!

[LUFAN]

I agree coop. But the question is can they do it quick enough. They had lines of Charter buses drive by my job today. Hopefully they can turn some of those to our area. They are saying Houston may only get 200 buses.

[KFDM COOP]

Start driving now they could.

[82 5A State Champs]

so they want people to stay in 96-110 mph I just don't get it....

Well, I think they realized that they've messed up with the evacuations over the past couple of weeks. They pulled the trigger too soon with Gustav, and nothing happened. And now they've waited too long to order it for our area. This late in the game, if they ordered an evac then it would just make a bad situation on the roadways, worse. The best option, IMO, is for people to just stay put. HAve you noticed that BISD has not cancelled school, either?