# Yikes Houston! Bill's comin' to town!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 29, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-houston-bills-comin-to-town/185213 "2003-06-29T20:17:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-houston-bills-comin-to-town/185213/1 "2003-06-29T20:17:33Z")

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[Tropical Storm Bill](http://vortex.plymouth.edu/hur_dir/hur_pos_nt3.html), that is. Landfall right here in the 'hood tomorrow night.

As with Allison two years ago, this one popped up overnight.

I hope he doesn’t stay.

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**Author:** ![Road\_Rash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-houston-bills-comin-to-town/185213/2 "2003-06-29T22:01:53Z")

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Looks more likely that it will reach land in Louisiana. We would be on the good side of the storm. An eerie, cloudless calm.

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**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-houston-bills-comin-to-town/185213/3 "2003-06-29T23:23:29Z")

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[NOAA](http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_astorm3+shtml/291648.shtml?) has a good page too

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**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-houston-bills-comin-to-town/185213/4 "2003-06-29T23:31:41Z")

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Woohoo, storm!!

Oh damn… I am going to be at work tomorrow night.

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**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-houston-bills-comin-to-town/185213/5 "2003-06-29T23:34:38Z")

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Any chance we’ll get some rain in Dallas? 🙂

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**Author:** ![thatDDperson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@thatDDperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thatDDperson)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-houston-bills-comin-to-town/185213/6 "2003-06-30T07:05:36Z")

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Oh, freakin’ hell. I have to drive to Corpus for a funeral on Tuesday.

NO ALLISON REPEATS. I was on the third floor of a hospital in the Medical Center when Allison came through, and I WILL NOT be sitting in the damp, hot clammy confines of Houston with no AC ever again, for the rest of my life.

(Yeah, they put me in another hospital, yeah, I got over it, but 36 hours with no meds or electricity and very little water or nutrition was a big setback.)

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-houston-bills-comin-to-town/185213/7 "2003-06-30T15:37:08Z")

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You Texas folks are getting off the hook this time. Unfortunately, that means that us drowned rats in South Louisiana will be swimming to the surface, wondering where the Ark is.