To all our Texas friends

[Deb]

Hey Deb,I am also thinking and praying for you.
Check in somewhere and let us know you are ok,you have my e mail address sister use it!

thanks frank my brother. maybe I'll come to your party after all!!!!! i lya mucho.

want me to ship some salsa for the shindig? and BBQ sauce? pm you addie, k?

of course, as luck would have it, I am the principal flute in this Sunday's orchestra. I have a several solos in several songs. televised. sigh............... oh well. my hair woulda prolly been flat anyway....

Panther!!! where are you???? get over that causeway and bring the boyo and mini-- me to the burbs!! you can hang with me!!! i've got lots of water and vienna sausage. ew....

You and hubby stay safe!

[Jenna]

Stay safe---we all will be thinking of you-

[alesson]

Stay safe and be on the alert mode our dear Texans!
Corpus Cristi and Galveston be more vigilant.

[Panther]

Hey Deb,I am also thinking and praying for you.
Check in somewhere and let us know you are ok,you have my e mail address sister use it!

thanks frank my brother. maybe I'll come to your party after all!!!!! i lya mucho.

want me to ship some salsa for the shindig? and BBQ sauce? pm you addie, k?

of course, as luck would have it, I am the principal flute in this Sunday's orchestra. I have a several solos in several songs. televised. sigh............... oh well. my hair woulda prolly been flat anyway....

Panther!!! where are you???? get over that causeway and bring the boyo and mini-- me to the burbs!! you can hang with me!!! i've got lots of water and vienna sausage. ew....

Ummm.. I'm here at the casa. lol Taking a break from last minute prep here. Unfortunately this big boy is pulling a Celia in that he can't quite make up his mind where he wants to hit.

We'll be headed out your way around 3 or so. Camping at pop's casa until we make a final decision on whether to hit the long road or not.

Oh... and vienna sausage? Do I need to drop the big pit off at yer house, complete with meats? Sheesh woman. Potted meats... ewwwwww

[Melissa]

Please if they ask you to evacuate please do it. Ike is no storm to be messing with. They showed on the tube tonight that around the eye they are recording 40 ft wave heights and if it gets to CAt 4 or 5 strength and it hits houston, over half a million homes would be under water. So please be safe and cautious and not sorry and foolish and get out. The rest of the country is praying for all of your safety.

thanks Layton. my granddaughter (and her parents) are bugging out from Houston to OKC tomorrow by plane.

we are boarded up here in Corpus. my hubby fell yesterday and injured his already messed up chest cavity so we are stuck. we are fairly far inland so we'll be ok.

thanks for the report on Kathy and Megan.

Stay safe Debbie! I'll be thinking and praying for you guys! I've been there and I know what it's like and it's so not fun. Hope you don't get the worst of it!

Yep, hurricanes seem to love you guys in TX as much as they love us here in FL. Be safe Debbie...we'll see you for that other Category Three

[SueinFlorida]

Heather and I will be joining you for the other Category 3 also.

[Melissa]

Heather and I will be joining you for the other Category 3 also.

Awesome Sue!!

[StevePerryHair]

Heather and I will be joining you for the other Category 3 also.

Yay!!!!!!!!!!

[SusieP]

I need to get a map and mark everyone's whereabouts.
I don't know where everyone is situated.
So - this is a general message to anyone in the path of any of these bloody bastard hurricanes -


STAY SAFE.
xxx

[bluejeangirl76]

I need to get a map and mark everyone's whereabouts.
I don't know where everyone is situated.

I picture a huge map with little stickers of our avatars to mark off locations.

[Melissa]

I need to get a map and mark everyone's whereabouts.
I don't know where everyone is situated.

I picture a huge map with little stickers of our avatars to mark off locations.

[SusieP]

I need to get a map and mark everyone's whereabouts.
I don't know where everyone is situated.

I picture a huge map with little stickers of our avatars to mark off locations.

Good idea.
I'll ask Stevew2 to get out his crayons and make me a map.

[bluejeangirl76]

I need to get a map and mark everyone's whereabouts.
I don't know where everyone is situated.

I picture a huge map with little stickers of our avatars to mark off locations.

Good idea.
I'll ask Stevew2 to get out his crayons and make me a map.

It will be shaped like Jon Cain.

[SusieP]

I need to get a map and mark everyone's whereabouts.
I don't know where everyone is situated.

I picture a huge map with little stickers of our avatars to mark off locations.

Good idea.
I'll ask Stevew2 to get out his crayons and make me a map.

It will be shaped like Jon Cain.

Or the Whale.
Or his keytar.

[DrFU]

Looks like Debbie may be out of the direct line of fire now, but Galveston/Houston are in for it. 25 foot storm surge predicted in some places ...

[(Crazy)Dulce Lady]

Looks like Debbie may be out of the direct line of fire now, but Galveston/Houston are in for it. 25 foot storm surge predicted in some places ...

yup. be safe and be prepared, y'all.

[Moon Beam]

Ms M you out there lady?

[Moon Beam]

DrFU love the new Av lady, very nice!

[DrFU]

DrFU love the new Av lady, very nice!

Thankee. Snapped at an Eagles concert Monday night in San Antonio. They were awesome, awesome, awesome.

At least something good happened in Texas this week. Unlike Ike; this is going to be very bad very soon.

[Saint John]

DrFU love the new Av lady, very nice!

Thankee. Snapped at an Eagles concert Monday night in San Antonio. They were awesome, awesome, awesome.

At least something good happened in Texas this week. Unlike Ike; this is going to be very bad very soon.

Fu Fu, did any of the band members say anything related to politics during the show?

PS Glad you had a good timer; stay safe.

[Moon Beam]

I woke with prayers of safety in my tete for all the MR Senors and Senoritas in Texas.

Glad you enjoyed a good show this week DrFU, did they do I Don't Want To Hear Anymore?
Love that one largely I do.

[DrFU]

DrFU love the new Av lady, very nice!

Thankee. Snapped at an Eagles concert Monday night in San Antonio. They were awesome, awesome, awesome.

At least something good happened in Texas this week. Unlike Ike; this is going to be very bad very soon.

Fu Fu, did any of the band members say anything related to politics during the show?

PS Glad you had a good timer; stay safe.

Three hour show, over 30 songs including James Gang and solo stuff from Henley and Fry; it was great. They didn't say anything particularly political that I remember, though the video for Long Road Out of Eden made quite a visual statement.

Fry was doing emcee duties and had some funny one liners, like, "Welcome to the Eagles Assisted Living Tour." and, "Yes, I'm from Detroit, where mother is only half a word."

I am headed for Dallas today, joining my sister and mother to fly to New York for a fall foliage cruise celebrating Mom's 85 birthday.

I will be out of harms way, but this storm is grim news for all the people who live in low lying areas of Galveston and Harris Counties and who may not have the ability to or have had enough notice to get to safety. Everyone thought this one was going in to Corpus until yesterday.

[DrFU]

I woke with prayers of safety in my tete for all the MR Senors and Senoritas in Texas.

Glad you enjoyed a good show this week DrFU, did they do I Don't Want To Hear Anymore?
Love that one largely I do.

Yes, they did; I think it was the third song.

Here's a really terrible visually but good audio clip I took of the very last song, Desperado. (The security folks were really policing the cameras.):

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YKOduFweTm8

[epresley]

Well, the whole thing is gonna miss us out in West Texas, but my Texas brothers and sisters are on my mind--Fight the good fight, gang!!!!!

[txfirefighter]

Glad you are going far, far away, Linda! What great timing you have!!!!!

I'm still worried about Deb, but at least Corpus isn't getting hit straight on.

Dan...........don't forget my phone call this afternoon.

[bluejeangirl76]

I have a good friend in Houston... she hasn't left and says she's too far north to get hit by anything bad, but I'm still worried and I've been checking in with her every day, several times a day.

[DrFU]

I have a good friend in Houston... she hasn't left and says she's too far north to get hit by anything bad, but I'm still worried and I've been checking in with her every day, several times a day.

Depending on what track the storm takes, that may just not be true. I was in Houston during Alicia in 1983 (with an 8th month old baby). The storm went into Galveston and headed right up the ship channel. The eye passed right over me. The wind blew so hard that it drove rain through the microscopic cracks around the windows in a brick suburban house (it looked like it was coming straight through the wall). I can still hear the unearthly howl of the wind that went on for hours. No power for days (weeks for some areas), all the utilities poles down, roofs off of houses. Glass from the skyscrapers in downtown Houston covering the streets. Massive flooding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Alicia

[conversationpc]

Has anyone else heard that they are saying that if you stay in Galveston, the entire island may be submerged and you are facing near certain death if you stay? That being said, that idiot, Geraldo Rivera, is reporting from there. What a moron.

[StevePerryHair]

I have a good friend in Houston... she hasn't left and says she's too far north to get hit by anything bad, but I'm still worried and I've been checking in with her every day, several times a day.

Depending on what track the storm takes, that may just not be true. I was in Houston during Alicia in 1983 (with an 8th month old baby). The storm went into Galveston and headed right up the ship channel. The eye passed right over me. The wind blew so hard that it drove rain through the microscopic cracks around the windows in a brick suburban house (it looked like it was coming straight through the wall). I can still hear the unearthly howl of the wind that went on for hours. No power for days (weeks for some areas), all the utilities poles down, roofs off of houses. Glass from the skyscrapers in downtown Houston covering the streets. Massive flooding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Alicia

That's true! We live in Orlando, which is considered inland, and we had 3 within 3 weeks a few years back, a couple of which where the eye went through too, and it was horrible. I mean we stayed but we had wind driven rain coming through our windows too, and wet carpets everywhere. My part of town was lucky not to lose power for a long time, but several areas did. And huge oak trees in some areas, that had been there for 50 plus years just toppled over. We were amazed at the damage that could be done this far inland.

Hope everything will be okay Linda! I'll be thinking about you!! Good you are leaving!

[Rhiannon]

Has anyone else heard that they are saying that if you stay in Galveston, the entire island may be submerged and you are facing near certain death if you stay? That being said, that idiot, Geraldo Rivera, is reporting from there. What a moron.

They're seriously saying that about Galveston?!? OMG...

PS... I can't stand Geraldo.