South Texas and South Western Louisiana DUers

[malaise]

Check in and tell us your plans.

[Luz]

1. I'm in San Antonio, expecting lots of rain and 40-50 mph winds

My plans are to hunker down and stay home. People evacuate TO SA, so traffic is a problem, too.

[malaise]

2. Make sure you have all important documents in a water-proof easy to love container/bag

Stay safe

[MineralMan]

3. All my waterproof bags are easy to love.

[malaise]

4. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah just saw the typo

Now I'll just leave it

[MineralMan]

5. Well, it's important that one love their waterproof storage bags.

I mean, who wants to put valuable papers in an ugly bag, after all?

[malaise]

8. Hahahahahhahahaha

You have to move that love

[MineralMan]

9. Love's always best when it's in motion.

Or something like that...

[malaise]

11. LOL

Your 'love' gave me the best laugh for the morning

[AuntPatsy]

6. cliche- prepared for the worst, hoping for the best....

[malaise]

7. Can't do more than that

This one is serious

[MineralMan]

10. Damn! That is one nasty-looking storm.

Those Texans had better duck they heads real good, I think.

[malaise]

12. The biggest worry is that it is going to stall

and there are several other worries

[MineralMan]

18. I know. It looks like it's going to

circle back on itself and maybe even regain strength before coming back in. This is going to be a very bad deal for a lot of people. I hope everyone is paying attention and stays safe.

[DFW]

13. I "evacuated" myself from Texas 10 days ago.

I'm now a little over 5000 miles from there, so I think I'll miss the worst of it.

[malaise]

14. Well you're now a visitor to the US

[DFW]

15. Well, I was, anyway

I was in Sprout City yesterday, and am "home" in Düsseldorf today.

[KatyMan]

16. Far west Houston suburb here

Judging by the predicted rainfall totals, I've started building an ark.

[malaise]

17. Hehehehehe - this too will pass

[OnlinePoker]

19. I hear there's one in Kentucky that's hardly been used. n/t

[KatyMan]

24. LOL, nice one. n/t

[GusBob]

20. I just read on FB, can this be true?

Immigration officials will be manning checkpoints during the storm trying to catch undocumented immigrants among the refugees

This is so fucked up I find it hard to believe

[malaise]

21. Said officials will run first

Of course it's fucked up - this administration doesn't give a shit about human lives including their own officials.

[GusBob]

22. Remember Bush and Katrina?

Trying to blame Al-Queda

This is worse, if immigrants are afraid to evacuate, people will die, including rescue workers

[malaise]

23. I'll never forget Bush and Katrina - not ever

These scumbags never learn - they find ways to profit from disasters

Abbot about to speak

[Horse with no Name]

25. We are further East

and I think we just have to worry about rain....but nothing about winds or tornadoes.
Of course that could all change if the trajectory changes.

[Squinch]

26. Tornado warnings near Galveston now. Take care, Texas friends.

[texasfiddler]

27. Our place will experience the eye (maybe twice if it backs up)

We would have left if it was cat 4 or 5. Generator is ready with lots of fuel. We are boarded up with a lot of local animal shelter dogs in our house (my wife is a veterinarian). We live on a ridge with zero chance of flooding. I built the house with hurricane ties on every rafter ( it survived the eye wall of hurricane Claudette cat 2 in 2004). Our livestock are secure. The horses are secure. The grid-tie solar array is secure. If Trump wants to come down for a photo-op I'll have a few choice words for him! I take that back, I DONT want him down here! Things are about to get interesting.

[herding cats]

29. Be safe!

Harvey is already a cat 3 and it has several hours still to strengthen.

Check back in as soon as you can after the storm so we know how you faired, ok?

[TenHouseCats]

28. I'm in PT Arthur

and we've got tornado warnings 'til 2am dst tomorrow.