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Zaara

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Hoss said:
Friday a local radio guy from corpus was being picked up by other iheart radio stations because they had to evacuate the studios and I guess they wanted a familiar voice for the evacuees. Anyway, at some point he actually said "Now is the time to panic people. Y'know how they're always saying now is not the time to panic? That means there is a time to panic and it's right now!"

I lol'd for a solid 5 minutes at that.
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So he's fired now, right?
 
Big_w_powah

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Hekotat said:
You can't see the line going out the other side and down the road about a 1/4 mile. Normally there are no problems pulling in and getting a free pump or a ZJ for that matter.
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Da fuq? Where is that? That building in the background, I fucking know it but can't place it.


Also, The gas stations in Allen are fucked. I have like no gas....Not enough to get anywhere, at least.

I did not prepare.
 
Hekotat

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Big_w_powah said:
Da fuq? Where is that? That building in the background, I fucking know it but can't place it.


Also, The gas stations in Allen are fucked. I have like no gas....Not enough to get anywhere, at least.

I did not prepare.
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Beltline in Irving, one block south of 635.
 
Agenor

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Big_w_powah said:
Da fuq? Where is that? That building in the background, I fucking know it but can't place it.


Also, The gas stations in Allen are fucked. I have like no gas....Not enough to get anywhere, at least.

I did not prepare.
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Add San Angelo to the list. Gas lines are between a mile or two right now.

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Sludig

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AladainAF said:
Go here Weather Forecast Maps and set to wind speed/500m, and change the date and watch the thing move. This is based on the NOAA modeling (generally VERY accurate 3-5 days out but not accurate at all after 5 days). It's got it going Cat 4 in 2 days.
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It's fun being inside NOAA right now and havn't actually really heard anyone talking about Harvey at all. Granted most are non NWS folk absorbed in their own projects and panicking about the 30% budget cut.
 
Lendarios

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Advise to those waiting for gas.

Go home wake up at 3-4 AM, go at that time. The line will be small, sleep on the car, carry a gun.
 
Hoss

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Zaara said:
So he's fired now, right?
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lol I doubt it, but I wouldn't know because I never heard of the guy before and don't expect to ever hear of him again.

A few minutes later his co host seemed to be walking back the "panic now" advice. It was sort of like listening to kelly osbourne walk back the "Who's gunna clean your toilets" line.
 
Dr.Retarded

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Borzak said:
On the radio today they were talking about how the storm was soooo big and the people that had to move out. People don't realise how much Houston and especially the areas that flooded have grown, even in my lifetime. Use to go to Conroe and then there was a break and then you got to Houston. Now you can't tell the different except the signs. Same for the woodlands was nothing. Used to goose hunt in Katy, and it was the Katy Prairie. Now it's nothing but houses and a 21 lane Katie Freeway. You used to leave Houston and there was a bit of nothing, then you would get to Katy and it wasn't much and there was prarie and goose hunting everywhere. Now there's mile after mile of houses. That's why so many people are impacted, including a hell of a storm.
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This...

We moved from New Orleans to Brenham back in '93, but my dad lived in the Clear Lake area since the early eighties. Going to visit him from Brenham down 290, there was literally nothing between Highway 6 to College Station until maybe hitting Cypress. Hempstead, Waller, Hockley; none of those places had anything, and there was maybe one large housing development around Cypress going up. Same thing with Katy, Richmond, and everything out west, and Conroe, Huntsville going north.

Moved to Charleston,SC in '05, but moved back to TX in 2015. Holy shit was I suprised in how everything just blew outwards in a decade. I imagined there would be quite a bit of growth, but what was once all pasture land is now strip centers and suburbs.

I know Cypress got BTFO from the storm, and there used to be nothing there. Conroe, Richmond, Katy, and all of those other outlying towns that got swallowed up really got it bad.
 
Oldbased

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AladainAF said:
Go here Weather Forecast Maps and set to wind speed/500m, and change the date and watch the thing move. This is based on the NOAA modeling (generally VERY accurate 3-5 days out but not accurate at all after 5 days). It's got it going Cat 4 in 2 days.
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Wow that is a legit tool I didn't know about. Also one coming in straight behind Irma. Year of the sharks.
 
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Big_w_powah said:
Da fuq? Where is that? That building in the background, I fucking know it but can't place it.


Also, The gas stations in Allen are fucked. I have like no gas....Not enough to get anywhere, at least.

I did not prepare.
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I was in Allen/Plano all day and it was fucked from 7am. Finally made it down to Mesquite/Garland and found a few with lines no longer than 10 mins.
 
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Kiki

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Dude, I'm in a small town in the middle of no where. Lines everywhere. People fucking going insane.
 
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AladainAF

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Dr.Retarded said:
Moved to Charleston,SC in '05, but moved back to TX in 2015. Holy shit was I suprised in how everything just blew outwards in a decade. I imagined there would be quite a bit of growth, but what was once all pasture land is now strip centers and suburbs.
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I used to live in Sugar Land in a subdivision called Providence in the early 80s right off highway 6 and bissonett. It was about 15 miles away Transco Tower (Now: Williams Tower). I remember that from our front yard, you could look to the left, and you'd see the Transco in the distance. This was close to when it was built, around 1983-84 or so.

The shocker for me was 2 years ago I went from 10 to Stafford through highway 6 and thought "Let me run by providence, get some memories". I could not believe Highway 6. It was completely different than I remember, in fact, I had a hard time even finding my old hood.
 
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Dr.Retarded

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AladainAF said:
I used to live in Sugar Land in a subdivision called Providence in the early 80s right off highway 6 and bissonett. It was about 15 miles away Transco Tower (Now: Williams Tower). I remember that from our front yard, you could look to the left, and you'd see the Transco in the distance. This was close to when it was built, around 1983-84 or so.

The shocker for me was 2 years ago I went from 10 to Stafford through highway 6 and thought "Let me run by providence, get some memories". I could not believe Highway 6. It was completely different than I remember, in fact, I had a hard time even finding my old hood.
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Yeah, I know the sections of 6 I've had to drive through are nuts. It's just thick Houston development, just like you see south of 610 along the 45 Gulf Freeway.
 
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