Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Hurrican Rita

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Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 09-20-2005, 08:34 AM:

For the sake of the people in Louisiana who have been through enough, I'm hoping it comes this way. Our coastline is more equipped to handle the surge anyway. And anyone who doesn't leave after seeing the damage a hurricane can do, is basically asking for it. Keeping an eye out.. [eyes]

Posted by James R. Hammonds, Jr (Member # 673) on 09-21-2005, 09:17 AM:

I'ts been a while since I've posted, but I thought I'd stop in.
Most of Houston should be ok (mostly heavy wind and rain), but I live in Pasadena which is on the Southeast side and pretty close to water.

My girlfriend and her family and I are taking off today sometime.
We are heading out to Opelousas, LA where they have family.
By looking at a map looks to be maybe a little closer to the coast line than Houston, but not in the path of the storm.
In the unlikely event that the storm takes a turn to the East, we've got I-49 to the North.

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 09-21-2005, 10:30 AM:

Have a safe trip James.

Posted by James R. Hammonds, Jr (Member # 673) on 09-21-2005, 10:37 AM:

You too.

Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 09-21-2005, 11:55 AM:

Good luck to both of you guys. ...and everyone else in the area. You're in our prayers.

Keep us posted.

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 09-21-2005, 12:22 PM:

Thanks guys. I'll post as soon as possible. I'll be in town for another day at least.

Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 09-21-2005, 12:41 PM:

My brother was freaking out and saying we should evac, but I saw on the weather news that Dallas is far enough north to be safe from hurricane-level damage.

The real concern for us according to the news is that Dallas is already hosting evacuees from Katrina and that the influx of Rita evacuees may be more than the city can handle.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 09-21-2005, 12:42 PM:

Good luck folks. This must be all you guys need, especially the Katrina evacuees who are staying in Texas.

Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 09-21-2005, 01:57 PM:

Just saw a news clip on CBS I think,I am in Boston at the moment, where upwards of 7,000 New Orleans residents who were evacuated to Texas are now having a second move to Arkansas.

We're keeping our fingers crossed for you guys

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 09-21-2005, 02:24 PM:

I just heard this from a friend. A friend of his is trying to get out of Houston, and he has been by 10 gas stations so far and all of them are out of gas. He says the highways are parking lots and everyone is trying to get out and head north that it's already turning into one big clusterfuck.

It will probably only get worse as more people see others fleeing.

Posted by Eric Hooper (Member # 1730) on 09-21-2005, 03:49 PM:

It's now a Category 5

Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 09-21-2005, 03:54 PM:

For those that haven't seen this yet, Rita has intensified to a class 5 hurricane with 165 mph sustained winds, and it its pressure is increasing.

There are some at the national weather service that say that if this continues when it hits land, it will be the strongest storm ever to hit this country, and depending on where it hits, it could be catastrophic.

My prayers are with everyone in it's path.

May god be with you all.

Ciao

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 09-21-2005, 04:10 PM:

I'm still here, and probably will be till the morning. Looks like I'm right in the center of the path, at least right now. We're in a tough situation here. If we head south and the storm heads south, we have to pick up and go west again. If we go north, we get to deal with possible tornadoes spawned off by the storm. We'll probably go south.

Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 09-21-2005, 04:47 PM:

I wish you all God's speed. Please move out as soon as you can and try to take some water and supplies to last a few days.

Good luck to all.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 09-21-2005, 05:14 PM:

quote: Wolff King Morrow
My brother was freaking out and saying we should evac, but I saw on the weather news that Dallas is far enough north to be safe from hurricane-level damage.

Yes. But not far enough away to escape damage from other storm related factors...such as tornadoes. The National Weather Service issued an advisory for our region, stating if Rita stays on its most likely storm track North Texas and much of Oklahoma can expect heavy rains, severe thunderstorms and the possibility of tornadoes. The severity depends on whether you're on the east or west side of the storm. I'm sure we'll be alright here in Lawton since it may only get rain from the west side of what remains of Rita. The Dallas Fort Worth area looks like it may have to contend with a lot more of Rita's remnants.

Posted by Jason Burroughs (Member # 68) on 09-21-2005, 06:07 PM:

Good thing the lakes are already somewhat low, to contain all the storm runoff. Since Dallas is about 250 miles inland, we shouldn't Rita at hurricane stregnth, but surely in the path for tropical storm, or tropical depression stregnth winds/rain. Since its is so dry around here, a lot of the rain will just run off.

Crossing my fingers for those along the gulf coast, espeically for those that won't be permitted to leave.

Posted by Andy Summers (Member # 3207) on 09-21-2005, 06:42 PM:

One fucking hurricane is enough for you chaps, but two fucking hurricanes, that’s taking the piss now……..

Anyway take cover from this beast from above, God bless you all…

Posted by Kurt Zupin (Member # 2751) on 09-21-2005, 07:11 PM:

Andy Katrina was just the start of Hurricane season, it could get a lot worse over the next month or so. Hope everyone from film-tech in that area stays safe. [thumbsup]

Posted by Paul Konen (Member # 41) on 09-21-2005, 07:17 PM:

Definately should be a depression by the time it gets to us, but I heard today that we get 40-60 MPH winds.

Should be an interesting weekend for us.

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 09-21-2005, 08:27 PM:

Will be leaving in about 8 hours. Not too much traffic at that time. I just made a sign and taped it to my tv, it reads...

If you came here to steal stuff and are taking more than food, remember God is watching you. Dont get sent to hell. Good luck.

Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 09-21-2005, 09:54 PM:

Last summer, Hurricane Dennis got caught over Kentucky, and we had storms spinning around it for quite a few days. Lots of rain in a very short period.

One of the models today had the storm moving up into OK, then turning SOUTH and coming BACK! Let's hope that one doesn't pan out.

Take much care, everyone in the path of this monster. Projections say it will drop to a CAT 4 by landing time, but that is still fast enough to really cause some big time damage.

Only the east coast has been spared this year...still time for a big one to move up that way before the hurricane season is over.

Posted by Don Sneed (Member # 955) on 09-21-2005, 10:36 PM:

Yea this really sucks, I live 12 miles north of Galveston, I am in Calf. now doing service work, trying to fly home on Sunday to see if I am homeless or not (that is if the planes are flying into Houston)...bad thing is with me being here in Calf, my house is not boarded up...the house is 1 yr old...at least I have Insurance...I decided if my house is ruin, I'm moving to Arlington TX to be a in house tech for the company I work for & do tech support...if minor damage, I will stay & repair...I guess I will know on Sat.

Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 09-22-2005, 02:23 AM:

Good luck Don!

It would figure I have to work this weekend amidst the storm and tornadoes. I'd much prefer to bail to Shreveport and stay with my grandmother over the weekend...

Posted by Andy Summers (Member # 3207) on 09-22-2005, 06:34 AM:

Quote
Will be leaving in about 8 hours. Not too much traffic at that time. I just made a sign and taped it to my tv, it reads...

If you came here to steal stuff and are taking more than food, remember God is watching you. Dont get sent to hell. Good luck.
________________________________________________________________
Jeremy’

Nice one, that’s damn funny, yeah the (“Finger of GOD” F5) will grab them by the balls and say that was a naughty thing you’ve done…….. [beer]

Now this maybe a little strange, but I think loudspeaker manufactures should start naming there sub bass speakers after hurricanes…..

I know not very funny…..

Anyway take all the safety precautions and wait this mother of nature one out she can’t last forever, or can she….take Film-Tech…..

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 09-22-2005, 11:49 AM:

The latest storm track models show Hurricane Rita making landfall around 20 or 30 miles east of Houston. If that track holds, the Houston metro may escape the worst of the storm's winds. Don't know how that would work out concerning the storm surge.

Folks in Beaumont and Port Arthur...they're under the gun. Those cities may get the worst of it. Hope all those folks are evacuated. Even Lake Charles, LA may get some pretty serious damage.

Posted by James R. Hammonds, Jr (Member # 673) on 09-22-2005, 05:42 PM:

Just thought I'd cherck in here.
We had a rough time getting out (RV broke down and 2 cats ran off while were were transporting people between the RV and the other two vehicles [Frown]

) but our experience traffic-wise was heaven compared to what others have been experiencing (and some still are).
We arriven in Opelousas late last night and have been monitoring the news.
The Eastern turn has made us nervous, but for now we are staying here.
We do have things ready to pack up and leave quickly if we need to though.

Jeremy, be safe.
Don, good luck with your place.

Posted by John McConnel (Member # 2000) on 09-22-2005, 08:49 PM:

In Hartford, Heresford, and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen. Too bad Houston wasn't included in that.

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 09-22-2005, 11:13 PM:

Checking in....we left a 4 am today to Harlingen to an uncles house. But we seemed to have dodged this one, so me and my wife came back since we both have to return to work tomorrow. Thanks for all the good luck wishes, and good luck to all those on the way out. Have a safe trip James. Hope theres not too much damage to yours and Don's personal property.

Posted by Aaron Mehocic (Member # 15) on 09-23-2005, 01:21 PM:

Living where I do there isn't much concern about hurricanes. The only thing we ever see of them is a good rainstorm and maybe some minor flooding. Irregardless, however, I've put myself in many of your positions (especially Jeremy's) and figured I'd probably stay. I think in the end I'd rather try and face the storm in my home than out on the interstate halfway between San Antonio and the Gulf Coast.

My uncle lives in south Florida. He never evacuated, even when Andrew hit in 1992. When you ask him about it he just quietly says, "Where are you going to go?".

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 09-23-2005, 07:01 PM:

http://www.ev1.net/stats/ritacams.html

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 09-24-2005, 03:27 AM:

I hope the owners of the cars abandoned in that multi-storey have sympathetic insurers!

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 09-24-2005, 08:05 PM:

I don't think they're really abandoned. I believe they are the vehicles of the employees running the data center the cameras are in.

Posted by Jason Burroughs (Member # 68) on 09-25-2005, 07:32 PM:

Not that impressive of a data center though. Deffinatly hope they don't ever have any power outages.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 09-25-2005, 10:55 PM:

Speaking of, I am happy to report that the Film-Tech servers suffered no effects from Rita, and Daryl's awesome wiring is still in tact! [thumbsup]

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 09-25-2005, 10:58 PM:

Looks like the world's biggest ball of yarn.
[Eek!]

Posted by Betsie Beadling (Member # 591) on 09-26-2005, 06:43 AM:

I think that the Wires look
like Spaghetii Pasta Noodles [Big Grin]

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 09-26-2005, 07:30 AM:

Hey, that shot doesn't have the home-stereo optical interconnects.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 09-27-2005, 12:22 AM:

Yeah, they had to use coaxial (re: standard RCA composite video wire) for the digital audio home theater interconnects because it is far cheaper than optical and works just as well as long as the run isn't too long.

Posted by James R. Hammonds, Jr (Member # 673) on 09-28-2005, 02:09 PM:

Hey everyone,

We made it back safely on Sunday night.
Turns out the storm made a turn towards where we were staying, but all we got was rain and heavy wind.
In fact, I slept through the worst of it.
I only woke up to no power and small limbs on the ground.
A tree had fallen on power lines nearby so we were without power for our last two days there.

We drove home along I-10 so we got to see some of the wreckage as we passed by.
When we got back, we fisrt stopped off at my girlfriend's parents' house to unload some of their stuff and get our vehicles that we had left.
When we got inside, we found one of the cats that we thought had run away.
We were watching one of our friend's cats and apparently, when we were putting the cats into the RV, we thought we had them all, but had left him behind.
I guess in the rush to get out of there, we had forgotten him.
Poor thing stayed in the house all alone with no power (meaning no air conditioning) for 4 days.
Luckily, one of the toilet seats was left up, so he had water to drink.
I felt bad because it was I who was putting the cats in and forgot to check to make sure we had them all.

Unfortunately, the other cat that did run off didn't fare so well.
When they went back the following day to get the RV, he was laying on the side of the road, most likely hit by a car.

Our fish, on the other hand survived those 4 days in one of those cups you get at a sporting arena.
We had a couple of scares, but she pulled through.

Even though our area got a lot of wind and rain, wverything at home was fine.
In fact, the empty trash can in our back yard was still standing.
Our neighbors next door said the power must have never gone out, because his alarm clock was still set when he got home.
We had unplugged everything.

The most fortunate people I know of through this whole ordeal were my girlfriend's brother and his family.
The ended up in a place that got a direct hit and had to run to different houses three different times because trees had fallen on them and they started to collapse.
They eventually ended up in an underground dirt bunker where they were trapped for 12 hours before being pulled out.
There were 23 people and a few animals and none of them were harmed.

We got back Sunday night and I took off work Monday so we could resituate ourselves.

Glad to see you lucked out Jeremy.
Don, I hope your property is ok.

Posted by Don Sneed (Member # 955) on 09-29-2005, 01:26 AM:

Whooaaa Weeee, it was close !!! My wife returned home Sunday, no damage at all, even the Direct TV dish was sill on the roof...lucky for Galveston & surrounding area Rita turn at the last minute....my heart & prayers goes out for the people in Rita's path who wasn't as lucky....

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 09-29-2005, 05:27 PM:

Don, happy to hear that all is OK at your home...

Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 09-30-2005, 07:06 AM:

Don, nice to see the good news...all the best for your new position in the main office. [thumbsup]