The Chaos has started
mandatory evacuations, grocery store frenzies, roads are already totally f*cked up traffic wise
add Sheila Jackson Lee on the TV and life would be truly wonderful
"If you're so special why aren't you dead? I just wanna get along. I just wanna get along. I just wanna get along" My mother and Kim Deal
Re: The Chaos has started
they always freak here - the newscasters and weather peaople seem to enjoy predicting the end of the world and whipping people into a frenzy. When Rita hit, we had 3-4 days of nonstop coverage on TV and it was premiere week for a bunch of shows including Survivor, so we didn't get to see any of them. The sports and soap opera devotees were going ballistic.
and yeah, it's Ike
"If you're so special why aren't you dead? I just wanna get along. I just wanna get along. I just wanna get along" My mother and Kim Deal
Re: The Chaos has started
that's ongoing
"If you're so special why aren't you dead? I just wanna get along. I just wanna get along. I just wanna get along" My mother and Kim Deal
Re: The Chaos has started
they're sending us home around noon
"If you're so special why aren't you dead? I just wanna get along. I just wanna get along. I just wanna get along" My mother and Kim Deal
Re: The Chaos has started
It's a 2, but it's still out in the middle of the Gulf and not supposed to hit land until the wee hours Saturday morning.
They really want to get all the rush hour folks out of the way so the evacuations from the coast can go through here, but it's gonna be a real pain trying to get home. I rode the bus and the bus doesn't run as often midday, plus the freeways are gonna be majorly screwed up by then. During Rita it took 6 hours to go 10 miles northward on the one near my house.
"If you're so special why aren't you dead? I just wanna get along. I just wanna get along. I just wanna get along" My mother and Kim Deal
Re: The Chaos has started
Why do people get so bent out of shape at price gouging? If I'm a supermarket owner and there's a storm coming, I'll be damned if I'm selling my last few 12 packs of toilet paper for $3.49. You want a clean ass, it's gonna cost you $20 a 12 pack now. Your sensibilities are offended? Go somewhere else.
You want plywood to board up your windows? It's gonna cost you $100 a sheet if you wait until the day before the storm hits. Buy it when there's no storm coming and I don't have a line out the door of potential consumers, and you can pay $25.
Quote:Why don't those people just keep spare plywood around since they need it every year?
Ex-motherfucking-actly.
Buy 20 sheets over the summer at $25 a sheet and store it in your garage or something. The people who whine because someone's doubled the price when demand is at its peak is merely looking to be rewarded for crappy planning.
Re: The Chaos has started
can't see your pic, but no, I'll be staying put just like we did during Rita- we're 60-80 miles from where it will likely hit the coast and we're in a high (60') part of Houston that doesn't usually flood.
As far as the plywood goes, we keep ours and use it as a floor in the attic when it's not needed. I don't rush out to buy water either since we have a lot of big water containers that we use camping.
"If you're so special why aren't you dead? I just wanna get along. I just wanna get along. I just wanna get along" My mother and Kim Deal
and the computers go down in 20 minutes, so I'll be outa here then
"If you're so special why aren't you dead? I just wanna get along. I just wanna get along. I just wanna get along" My mother and Kim Deal
Quote:As far as the plywood goes, we keep ours and use it as a floor in the attic when it's not needed. I don't rush out to buy water either since we have a lot of big water containers that we use camping.
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Re: The Chaos has started
do you guys remember about 4 years ago when I started asking people why the fuck they didn't already have plywood?
I think macksy the fake black dude was posting about standing in line at home depot for 6 hours waiting for the plywood truck or something. it struck me as so stupid.
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