Hurricane Rita is coming...

....and this time is heading towards Texas. I hope all fellow Texans near the coast line have taken action to move to a safe place. My small apartment is ready to host a few friends/evacuees from Houston.

Hope the storm will weaken by this Saturday.

http://news.yahoo.com …921/ts_nm/weath​er_rita_dc

Good luck to everybody. Part of my family lives in SW FL and hurricanes are always a big issue here on my side of the pond. God bless you all.

I am about 30 miles East of Houston. My wife and kids left out this afternoon, headed North. I have to stay behind. The plant I work at, has designated my shift as the "ride-out-crew". So they are bringing in cots and food for us.

Our prayers are with you,Chris!
Deb

Good luck and let us know how's going as soon as possible. We think of you.

Be safe Chris.

yes many people in coast are moving right now, going to Dallas or further. It gonna be crazy here, even in Dallas they moved many games from Saturday evening (since I'm shooing sports) we gonna have really heavy rain here (Dallas) but many people still staying in Huston... hope everyone will be ok.

Good luck to all those in the way of Rita. Make sure you post to let us know you and your family is all right. Prayers!!!

My family is in Dallas. Right now there is no threat of it coming that way yet but it still worries me.

Uhh.. I'm in Dallas and they are talking about up to 24" of rain, 40-50 mph wind, if it keeps it's current course. While certainly a light hit compared to others, thats a lot of water in a short period of time. Last word is it's a 4 now and will be a 3 when it hits, now they think north east of Houston, somewhere around the Texas/LA border. Low density there, let's hope they are right.

We have friends trying to get here from the coast, left at 3 AM, got 40 miles by 1PM.

Good luck to everyone.

I'm on business in Laredo. Was supposed to leave out tomorrow to fly home (to Alabama). Unfortunately, I'm on Continental Airlines, whose hub is in Houston. They've suspended all flights out of here temporarily. The only other airline out is booked solid. So, I guess I get to stay.

Fortunately, I had the foresight yesterday to extend my hotel reservation into the middle of next week, so that I wouldn't lose my room tomorrow afternoon.

Every time I walk through the lobby of the hotel, someone is in there asking if there are any rooms available (there aren't). Breaks my heart, knowing that pretty much everything in town is already full and these folks probably won't have a place to go (except for shelters). Not much anywhere else to go without driving a very long distance from here.

I've been trying to find room for more friends coming up.. at least TRYING to get here, there is NOTHING in Nort Dallas. Many are going thru to Gainesville, then on to OKC.

The view from Dallas... this thing is BIG. Taken at 4:11 CT.

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It's beyond my imagination. Even here in Austin alot of gas stations run out of gas, people also cleaned out the shelves in the grocery stores. I only saw this in some Hollywood movies before today. Scary..........

I wish everyone the best of luck and hopefully she dies out.

Be safe Rebel

Dan