RE: Galveston - The part that bothers me is that others will be risking life and limb to rescue some of these folks. That’s not right. Water is already beginning to cover the island.
Poly is right about Houston - flooding from rains is going to be their issue.
This is really beginning to make me sick to my stomach. Those poor people. This will be like Bay St. Louis, Waveland, etc. during Katrina, when the horrible screaming 911 phone calls began to come in from folks who were drowning.
Although I agree with the OP that they’re stupid and all it would have been so cool if they said, “well, we figure if it’s safe for news reporters it must be safe for everyone.”
I was actually hoping it would be a rant about all the news stations telling us to evacuate and hunker down and then sending reporters out to capture the storm on film. Are reporters super human, with the powers to withstand wind, rain and flying debris? No. So why they hell do they risk their lives? Mount a few stationary cameras around the city and get the hell out of there. You can film the aftermath to your little black heart’s content. I really think they are all hoping to be the first to capture their own reporters on film getting sliced in two by a flying street sign.
I agree wholeheartedly with this. Having media there gives folks a false sense of ‘everythings must be Ok or they wouldn’t be here’.
But , ya know, it’s not like there isn’t a world of info out there now on the aftermath of some of these bad storms. Looks like people would get a clue.
I was originally thinking Fahrenheit, but I like the combined IQ at freezing better. 
The big issue right now is the storm surge. The surge is not like a tsunami, it’s the total raising of the water level; in effect, the sea level drops. Where I am is about 50 feet above normal sea level, so I am immune to the coastal problems and just have to worry about localized street flooding, etc.
But the water that is being pushed ahead of Ike right now has no place to go except into Galveston Bay. As a result, Galveston’s sea wall is useless, because the island is flooding from the back, and all the areas along the bay like Surfside, etc. are all flooding now. When the winds really start hitting around 1600 this afternoon, the shit is really going to hit the fan.
But divided among a family of six…
Okay, now I feel like the one with a low IQ. Isn’t the intersection at -40 degrees? That’s not room temperature. 
I think he means halfway between the numbers, ie. 72 and 21 (or whatever room temperature is).
I disagree, I would like to see all the idiots join a “God will save us” suicide cult and then drink the kool-aid. YMMV, of course.
If the evacuation is mandatory, aren’t they committing reckless endangerment or some such, or is it okay to put your kids in harm’s way in Texas so long as you have faith in god?
It’s a misdemeanor if you only believe in small-g god.
Perfectly legal if you believe in God, or are within 5 miles of Chuck Norris.
Belief in Og, of course, makes it physically impossible to do anything so fucking stupid.
It’s not that it’s legal, it’s just that everyone knows that Chuck Norris can punch an incoming hurricane and reverse it’s course.
Hurricanes put up Chuck Norris shutters.
Yep. Yep. Ast was really suggesting that the combined IQ was 40 below zero.
Frick’n brilliant!
Sorry. Crappy joke on my part. -40 degrees C (or F) = 233.15 Kelvin
Aha! Now I think we’re on to something.
For what it’s worth, I got it. What’s that in R?
Saint Peter: We sent two boats and a helicopter!
Actually, the mayor of Galveston announced that from now on, they are shutting everything down. If you call for help, no one will come until things are mostly over. Cold hearted, but I agree that they shouldn’t risk a first-responder’s life for someone else’s damned stupidity.
ION, there is a disabled freighter 90 miles off Galveston with 22 people aboard. They were unable to complete the rescue, so the people are having to ride it out… :eek:
That happens elsewhere too. There is a window of time where the search & rescue or what have you doesn’t go out. I should have been more specific - one example is from today, when a gawker got in trouble in the water in Corpus Christi, and the person trying to rescue got pushed into some rocks and is in critical condition tonight. I have not looked up cite for that, take it with a grain of salt.
I heard a big tug is trying to come in from the backside of the storm and tow them. You can hear anything, though.