The ATMs in Houston are empty. There is no gas left in Houston. The highways leading out of Houston and Galveston and other coastal cities are jammed packed and not moving.
Some 17 people who left Houston for a coworkers of Ann's one bedroom apartment here in Austin travelled the 157 or so miles in 14 to 20 hours. That's approx. 7.85 mph.
17 people in a one bedroom apartment...wow. My boss. who hails from the area has 9 people and their dogs staying at his place.
People are running out of gas on these highways ( mostly gas guzzling SUV drivers I'm guessing ) and are sitting ducks cursing their luck with pockets full of cash and credit cards that are useless.
Parts of NOLA are under water AGAIN...AUUUUGHHHHHH!
A bus transporting some elderly folks blew up this morning on one of those freeways...27 feared dead, the oxygen tanks many of them rely on are suspect.
Bush will monitor the Rita situation from an emergency center this weekend that's located in
Cheney goes under the knife today to remove an aneurysm behind his knee...how fast can one of these aneurysms travel to the brain?( assuming it can dodge the knife) Just wondering...in that hopeful, die motherfucker sort of way.
A survivor of Katrina gets evacuated to Houston and then moves on to Chatanooga Tenn. to make a new start, only to be shot in the head 5 times and left on a roadside shortly after recieving one of those money cards from the red cross. Shot in the head 5 (FIVE) times for a fucking walmart giftcard? That's just sick.
Our city is being overrun by these hurricane evacuees and people coming to town for the ACL music fest...traffic is more insane than usual. I have compassion for the evacuees and contempt for the out of town ticket holders for the ACL music fest that will block my neighborhood streets and act like they are doing me a favor by patronizing this event.
On a lighter note, it appears that the hole Rita punched through will spare us the rain and give us milder winds, but our city will be filled to the brim with the displaced from both storms. Austin did an awesome job of helping out with the fallout from Katrina, hopefully it has the wearwithall to deal with Rita, and the one after .
I could go on and on, and I will, but later...
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