I’m so worried about her. She as hard-headed as I am.
Her elderly mother and her brother both live there too.
I told her she could come up here if she needed to, but she said the news is just fear mongering.
Does anyone know if Corpus Christi is far enough away, as things stand now, to ride it out?
I called her yesterday morning when I heard they had announced mandatory evacuation of C.C. She said if they forced her, she’d go, but she would wait as long as possible.
Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid.
I knew that living in South Texas had made her a right-wing bigot, (not really) but I never dreamed it had made her stupid.
Even if Rita does not score a direct hit on CC, it can still be pretty bad. I mean, NO didn’t get a direct hit from Katrina but look what happened. I say call her and verbally abuse her til she gets her butt in gear and leaves!
Fox News said last night that Corpus Chisti is completely out of the landfall probability area. I just looked at Weather.com and it shows the same thing. Corpus Christi is much further south than the primary affected areas. It sounds as if danger is minimal there.
My sister and her family are staying in Beaumont; our parents (who live about a block from them) will presumably be with them. With all the traffic coming out of Houston, they couldn’t leave even if they wanted to. At least they have a sturdy house with hurricane shutters and a generator.
Texan checking in here - it may be too late to leave. Unless she’s very, very familiar with all the little back roads and the little backwater towns outside CC, it may actually be better for her to ride it out - if she ventures out onto the highways heading west she might find herself stuck in the 100-plus degree heat and humidity out here, no gasoline, frying on the jammed highways unable to get out.
CC looks to be spared the worst at this point, but they are still going to get some nasty tropical storms. The eye is headed more towards the Houston/Galveston/Port Arthur/Louisiana border corridor, which is a fair distance north of CC. If she’s going to leave, she may want to head south towards Brownsville into the Rio Grande Valley instead of trying to go west towards Austin and San Antonio, which is where everyone else is going - and not getting there because of the traffic jams. Not a hotel room to be had anywhere in Austin, Dallas, surrounding areas, out clear to Oklahoma. El Paso supposedly has rooms but they’re clear on the other side of the state, an hours-long drive west.
At this point I’d say she should batten down the hatches and not risk getting caught out in the open on a jammed highway when the storm hits.
