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2007-08-20 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Texas told to ready for evacuation as Dean nears

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Posted by Fred 2007-08-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 It's going to Texas! Then Arkansas! And Louisiana! And then, and then, it's going to the White House!

Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaagh!

Posted by Gary and the Samoyeds">Gary and the Samoyeds 2007-08-20 09:13|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-08-20 09:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Definitely need to evacuate the islands like Galveston. And Houston has the ship channel...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-08-20 11:28|| 2007-08-20 11:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Buses -- it's all about buses. Dallas sent 200 school buses to San Antonio on Saturday.

I commute IH-35 from about 30 south of Austin. This morning, going south was first, probably about 30 charter buses, then about 25-35 Austin school buses.... then I looked up, sorta on a hilly portion, and there must have been another 75 Austin school buses in the center lane, headed south. Awesome sight!

Buses from the city, state, and military were on standby for possible evacuations, including a fleet of 700 sent by the governor's office. Another 600 buses were on standby in San Antonio.(or, at least heading to San Antonio)

This is what they are preparing for -- San Antonio is ready for 40,000 already.
In Washington, R. David Paulison, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said up to 100,000 people might have to be evacuated from the state's southeastern coast and its immigrant shantytowns near the Mexican border. The storm is on course for northern Mexico, but could shift and hit the region around Brownsville, Texas, Paulison said.

Posted by Sherry 2007-08-20 11:48|| 2007-08-20 11:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Using buses to move folks? Wotta concept! Someone needs to tell chump-ass Mayor Nagin over in NOLA about this.

Posted by SteveS 2007-08-20 14:58|| 2007-08-20 14:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Heh -- and 400 National Guardmen have been "trained" to drive school buses! Just in case, don't you know?

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2007-08-20 17:23|| 2007-08-20 17:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Gary, that is so last week.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-08-20 19:32|| 2007-08-20 19:32|| Front Page Top

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