WE have a member on that small Texas Island

[hensylee]

Kim, hope you are safe.

 

[WayneGM]

Best wishes to you and your family, Kim. I hope you are all safe.

 

[Ross]

Hensylee are you thinking of Kim C? I thought her island was off of North or South Carolina?

 

[catwoman]

Hope Kim's safe. If someone hears from her, please let us know she's OK.

 

[netmiff]

Kim, if it is your island, hope you're OK

My parents have a trailer in Mission, TX; they are up here at home right now, but I am sure they will be keeping an eye on the weather.

 

[Karlynn]

Yes - Kim C is off the east coast Carolinas. If it's another Kim - hang on and stay safe!

 

[hensylee]

maybe you are right? a small SOUTHERN island? sorry, y'all.

 

[Ross]

Kim C is off of Hilton Head SC. She is fine. I just talked to her in email. Rest easy my friend.

 

[Lisa in Katy]

Janie is actually fairly close to where it came in (in Texas terms, anyway). She's probably about 3 hours away. I'm 6 hours away, and we felt the winds this afternoon. The signs on the freeway said, "Hurricane in the Gulf. Fill up your tanks." People around here tend to panic a little whenever there's a hurricane. Katrina is still fresh in our thoughts, and even though it didn't hit here. we certainly got plenty of the after effects (and our jails are full of many of them!). I grew up about 10 miles from the Gulf and we evacuated once for a hurricane - to Houston! Now people in Houston think they need to evacuate and it causes a clusterflack on the highways. Really, when over a million cars get on just a few roads, all trying to go the same way, it's a nightmare.

 

[MrP]

Unlike those of us in earthquake zones, at least you get some advanced warning and a head start to get out of the way. Growing up there in Houston, waiting out many hurricanes, seeing hurricane Carla blow the roof off of my neighbor's house, I know most folks prefer to hold their ground.

 

[Lisa in Katy]

Which is why so many people died or got stuck during Katrina. After so many years of listening to the weathermen yammer on and then nothing happening, you get immune to the warnings and decide to "ride it out". Unfortunately, wait 10 years and the Katrina disaster could happen again. There was an article in the paper yesterday that said that 25% of the people in the Katrina area would still not evacuate if it happened again.

Exactly why I don't live in California - earthquakes, mudslides, fires. It's beautiful and the weather is great most of the time, but....it's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there! We thought about moving to San Francisco at one time for a job, but decided to move to Lafayette, LA instead. The weekend we were moving in October, 1989 was when the major earthquake hit San Francisco. If our decision had been different, we probably would have been stuck right in the middle of it.