Hou-Dats, stay safe!!!
 

Looks like a bad one coming your way. Stay safe guys and gals

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Those in SW LA also....be careful out there.

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JP is busy. keep safe

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Be careful over there.

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If anyone there knows of anyone or any areas that may need relief efforts pm me and let me know.

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This one looks serious get out of Dodge, better safe than sorry.

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Amen. Instead of riding it out, ride North, East or West. :)

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Stay safe everyone. God Bless.

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I'm on duty all weekend, for local media, at Houston TranStar, an intergovernmental agency, which is functioning as the city's emergency operations center. Looks like we'll be holed up here all weekend. Most people here know this facility as the "Freeway Cams" place.

I would advise people to leave. If we get projected rainfall, and there is any storm surge up Buffalo Bayou, we'll have catastrophic floods, and the water will have nowhere to go. I did aerial video of Tropical Storm Allison (some of my footage you can see, on Weather Channel, etc, )... Allison shutdown Houston's freeways for 3 days, and caused millions in damage and nearly 30 deaths, most of them, I feel, avoidable.

If this storm does what is projected, the freeways will be impassible, and we will get floods in places that have not flooded before. There have been numerous infrastructural changes, and an explosion of construction, all sure to affect the drainage system, and again, no drainage system can overcome storm surge.

I think we'll have mass power outages, and also I believe the strength of the winds of this storm will surprise a public, which heard, correctly, that the storm had broken up over the Yucatan. It reorganized quickly, and begin moving very slowly over the Gulf, which you fellow Gulf Coasters know add strength to the Storm. There has been little effort to evacuate. Local leaders are gun shy about a repeat of the Run Away Panic, which was the evacuation ahead of Hurricane Rita, in which people were killed evacuating.
They really didnt have time to mull an evacuation, as this storm just organized, after the Yucatan, instantly.

If I werent here getting my Jim Cantore on, as my job requires, I would be off into the Wild Blue Yonder, and not staying here.

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my perch at TranStar.

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Great time for a Utah vacation. Plenty of high ground up here.

Be safe.

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Holed up at TranStar again tonight, waiting for the shoes to drop. Its pretty much a storm shelter in itself, and floods shouldnt be a factor, here, because the Katy Freeway pretty much acts as our drainage ditch. There's a good chance I'll be stuck here till tuesday, because I think the roads are going to be F*****d. Im much more worried about all the people hunkered down, because I think some of them are going to end up on their roofs.

-- I cant help but think of you guys who dealt with that storm in '05.

I dont expect this to compare, but it just reminds me of when I was working,
and we were monitoring the event, and wondering where everyone was, and
how they were. Im glad to know

Hou-Dats, where you at?

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Keep us informed, Mike.

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We're praying for all you guys in Texas.

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Feeder bands in the greater Houston area now. Looks like Victoria is going to get it twice. Already heard it had about 24" of rain so far. They are predicting about 41" for them... crazy numbers. So far though, just a crap load of rain by me in The Woodlands.

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Live from TranStar

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Its looking like a real disaster. Katy is prob. ok...
Really, besides ridiculous rain, Houston's prob, is drainage. sound familiar?

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