| Author | Message | ||
     Smoke |
staying for this one, east of lafayette, La in a non flood zone. probably have power loss for a short time. will check in after. hopefully all y'all west of here are well prepared or got out early. good luck all. tim ivanoff | ||
| Rubberdown |
Be well Smoke! | ||
| Henrik |
Best of luck. I'll be thinking of you. Henrik | ||
| Road_thing |
Staying in Houston. Looks like the worst of the storm will pass between us, Smoke--stay dry! rt | ||
| Lucas70374 |
good luck Smoke, I am about a hour and a 1/2 east of you, I am staying for this one to.. What about Cajun? I know he is from Lafayette If any of you guys need a place ot stay please let me know | ||
| Whodom |
Guys- I just got back from 3 weeks in Gulfport, MS. I work for the Navy and spent three weeks helping assess the damage at the Sea Bee base in Gulfport and the Naval Station in Pascagoula. If you're riding this one out, make sure you are definitely on HIGH ground and away from the water. Lots of homes got flooded in Mississippi that were well out of the normal flood plane. Pretty much everything for 3 blocks back from the Gulf for a distance of ~80 miles is wiped out. The destruction is absolutely incredible. If you've got time, make sure you have plenty of gas (may be a LONG time before you can get more), plenty of water, and food. Good luck to all of you. | ||
| Smoke |
thanks for the good juju, all. still here with minimal effects. not as much rain as expected here, a few limbs down, community water supply not working and max wind at my house-55knots. will be able to make a better observation after daylight. storm bands still coming through, though. hope everyone else is doing ok tim | ||
| Reepicheep |
Excellent! Hang tough and be there for others, our prayers are with you. | ||
| Odie |
Smoke- glad to hear you're ok. I see Sikorsky's finest is helping out a lot down there!! Be safe! See you in March for the Badness I hope!  | ||
| Road_thing |
Well, we dodged the bullet in Houston! Not much rain at all, winds gusted up around 50 kts, lots of limbs down, a few trees and some rotten fences blew over, but otherwise not much damage. Lost electric power about 1:30 this morning, it came back on at 6 this evening. All's well that ends well. Hope the folks in Beaumont are OK. rt | ||
| Prez |
I'm glad texas is doing better than expected. I'm actually movin to tx on tuesday. in between san antonio and austin.good to see alot of fellow buellers in texas.hope all is well for the remainder of the storm. | ||
| Roadsurfr |
Hi Yall May God bless all those who have volunteered to help us in this desparate situation. Thanks. I have been without phone service since Katrina. My house was spared, except for some siding and a few shingles. I haven't heard from Wheelsleaning. I think his area was flooded. I'm in Philly working on our company's data-processing recovery. I thought I saw a silver ST go pass my hotel at 1301 Race St. one evening. I'm in the Hampton, room 1105. Thanks again to all those lending their assistance. Those MREs are pretty good. Gotta go, later. | ||
| Buellerthanyou |
Hey Prez, We gotta pretty good group here in Austin, among them a helicopter pilot and a helicopter mechanic (whose parents also own a bike shop and used to campaign an S2 drag bike!) My buddy Blazin' Shane rides an S1 and an X1 and lives in San Marcos. Several Buell-worthies in San Antonio, too. E-mail me and I'll give you all the skinny on the local area... HellBuelly J "A HellBuelly's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs,to hear the weeping of those that cherished them, to take their motorcycle between his knees and press in his arms the most desirable of their women." --Genghis KhanBuelly | ||
| Buellerthanyou |
Oh yeah, on topic: Blake, any damage in your neck of the woods? Looked like it was heading straight for you. HBJ | ||
| Prez |
hey thanx bueller...i'll ping ya when i get settled in..thanx again..prez | ||
| Cajunrph |
We left on Wednesday at 5pm 1 hour before they were to close the roads in Lake Jackson, Hey Lucas I'm from Houma now living in Texas. My mother said there is worse flooding in lower Terrebonne Parish than with Katrina. How many took their bike along. I did, and saw another on I-10 on Wed night with 2 Buells in the back of his truck. We stayed at South Llano State Park in Junction. They have some great roads around there. May be I can convince the wife to move there.  By the way Lake Jackson didn't have much in the way of dammage. They said the power went out but not where I live. We were very lucky. If that thing hit Matagorda like first predicted Lake Jackson would have been gone. | ||
| Philip |
a bunch of limbs down it the area. did not see any damage to houses. my power wen't out about 2:10am friday and came back online about 7:00pm tonight. i feel for the people who caught it square. later...philip | ||
| Lucas70374 |
Yes just lower terrebonne and lafourche parish. Houma area just had power out for about 12 hours. I live in Lockport and we had power out for about 12 hours to and I know fourchon had about 2-3 feet of water but dont know much about anything else. | ||
| Blake |
Jay, Rita decided not to mess with Kilgore too much. We lost power for a few hours Saturday morning, had rain and some wind from Friday evening through Saturday night and that was about it. Neighbor's had a big limb take out their utilitiy lines. I actually saw it come down as I was outside taking it all in waiting for the Bad Weather Border Collie to finish his business.  Rita turned right and spared us all the rain we were expecting. I'd be surprised if we got more than two inches of rain out of the whole deal. | ||
| Cajunrph |
As of last night Houston got 1.6 in of rain from Rita. A big big big bullet was dodged. | ||
| Road_thing |
Amen. I've always wanted a generator, anyway! rt | ||
| Lucas70374 |
believe it or not houma area didnt get much rain but it was the storm surge that killed this area, It did rain but not as much as expected, we was on the border the whole time and still today the wind is blowing pretty hard to. | ||
| Cajunrph |
The canals in the lower part of the parish failed which lead to the flooding. | ||
| Buellerthanyou |
Good to hear. Austin was supposed to get a bunch of rain, but we didn't get a drop...and yesterday it was 108 degrees at the airport! My lawn is pissed! Jay | ||
| Buellerthanyou |
Good to hear. Austin was supposed to get a bunch of rain, but we didn't get a drop...and yesterday it was 108 degrees at the airport! My lawn is pissed! Jay | ||
| Buellerthanyou |
Good to hear. Austin was supposed to get a bunch of rain, but we didn't get a drop...and yesterday it was 108 degrees at the airport! My lawn is pissed! Jay | ||
| Buellerthanyou |
Good to hear. Austin was supposed to get a bunch of rain, but we didn't get a drop...and yesterday it was 108 degrees at the airport! My lawn is pissed! Jay | ||
| Buellerthanyou |
Good to hear. Austin was supposed to get a bunch of rain, but we didn't get a drop...and yesterday it was 108 degrees at the airport! My lawn is pissed! Jay | ||
| Buellerthanyou |
Good to hear. Austin was supposed to get a bunch of rain, but we didn't get a drop...and yesterday it was 108 degrees at the airport! My lawn is pissed! Jay | ||
| Buellerthanyou |
Good to hear. Austin was supposed to get a bunch of rain, but we didn't get a drop...and yesterday it was 108 degrees at the airport! My lawn is pissed! Jay | ||
| Buellerthanyou |
Good to hear. Austin was supposed to get a bunch of rain, but we didn't get a drop...and yesterday it was 108 degrees at the airport! My lawn is pissed! Jay |
