This is a true confession. I have been known to buy frozen cheesecake at the supermarket, and eat it frozen. it’s extremely delicious that way… i think i like it better than when it’s thawed.
It’s not ‘sin’ it is artery clogging frozen animal fat. yech!
I had some yam fries the other day as my friend explained, I might as well eat the menu since there was no food value in the yam fries. But, they were soooooo good.
The Blue Mesa Grill here in Fort Worth makes thick potato chips out of sweet potatoes. Serves them as appetizers with the meal like the tostado chips in most mexican food restaurants.
Really good. Low salt, also.
Their whole menu is unexpected and extremely good. Some chef is showing some real imagination.
This is my mom-in-law’s recipe. It is outstanding (though it never comes out as good as hers when I make it).
Crust:
1 1/2 c. graham crackers crumbs
1/4 c. Confectioners Sugar
1 t. allspice
1/3 c. melted butter
Spread on bottom of 9″ springform pan, pressing some up on the sides to form a rim 1/2″ to 3/4″ high.
Filling:
2 (8 oz.) pkgs of cream cheese
2 eggs beaten lightly
2/3 c. sugar
2 t. vanilla
Stir cheese until soft & creamy. Add eggs, sugar, vanilla. Beat until thoroughly creamed & smooth. Pour into crust. Bake 350 for 25 min. Turn oven to 450. Remove and top with 1 1/2 c. sour cream, 4 T. sugar, 2 t. vanilla. Bake for 7 min. more. Cool and chill
also I posted the March post from yesterday on kos, if anybody wants to go over there and punch it, maybe it will make somebody march who wasn’t going to.
We’re still here and hunkering down. Boxed all important items, placed the boxed in plastic bags and stacked them in interior closets. Removed all wall hangings, knick-knacks and anything else that might go flying around a room at head level should the wind breach the house. Placed everything outside in the garage including stinking garbage cans (today was the scheduled pick up but not too many are working today). Christine’s cooking up a storm, we’re making ice and stashing fresh water, yada, yada, yada. The wind is picking up, the sky is starting to darken and the house is starting to creak. It’s supposed to make land about midnight and the worse should be over by tomorrow afternoon (at least in terms of the wind, I hope). Then there’ll be the rain and flooding which won’t bother us unless the house has been damaged. Finally, there’ll be dozens of tornadoes and they are completely unpredictable.
If things get really bad, please text message me on my cell phone or email me on my work address because that’ll come through on my Blackberry.
They are on the NW side of Houston away from the coast. Jim Cantore is in downtown Houston and still just in a t-shirt. They are probably going to be ok as long as no trees or other large flying objects get sent their way. He says Houston ran out of gas, bread, plywood, batteries, flashlights, etc on Tuesday. He used up all his ductape (sorry fatwa) on his windows. They are as set as they can be. Smart fella, he video-taped his house inside and out yesterday for insurance purposes if it gets damaged.
Weather Channel storm chaser. He rode out Katrina in Gulfport, Ms. He is an excellent and highly experienced weather reporter but Katrina really shook him. Watching him report live on the Weather Channel I can see what conditions are in Houston. He says the “ceiling is starting to drop” which indicates it is about to get serious there.
just had some guy in Louisiana — they’re getting hit pretty hard; he said “it’s getting pretty dangerous out here, so I’m going to say good night to everyone and head inside!” Smart fella…
Buzz, my brother, says people started freaking out Tuesday and emptied stores and gas stations. Yesterday he said the gridlock was so bad he couldn’t even back out of his driveway. By the end of the day he could get out the driveway but not out of their development before hitting gridlock again. They had planned on heading to Austin where their boys are in school but gave up that idea and prepared the house as best they could.
If your nephews need anything, get my contact info. from susan — we are hunkered down here too, the winds come in spurts (very gusty for a 1/2 hour or so, then still, still, foreboding air, repeat until midnight when we are to have 20-30 mile per hour winds)….
Anywho, we are fine but just giving the option of another communication network for your nephews should they need it!
Thanks. I appreciate the offer. I’m sure the boys (twins) will be fine… unless we don’t/can’t hear from their parents and sister in Houston for awhile.
As important as Hurricane Rita is/will be, I also want to remind people of the hurricane of anti-war protestors about to descend on DC. If you’d like to see the media give SOME coverage to that instead of complete wall-to-wall Rita coverage, I’ve posted a media contact list over at my diary on Kos.
Will the MSM be able to walk and chew gum at the same time? We’ll soon find out. Meanwhile, Bushy is secure in Colorado and Cheney’s going in for aneurysm surgery tomorrow. I’m sure the rest of the Republicans will be hiding in some undisclosed location in DC to avoid the storm of reality coming their way.
You will be comforted to know that while hurricane Rita devestates the southern coast, Karl Rove will be in North Dakota speaking at a party fundraiser. Sen Frank Lautenberg is not amused.
Yeah… that’s going to mean some serious flooding issues in the northeastern corner of texas, southwestern of Arkansas, and northwestern of Louisiana. Not goodness. Not goodness at all.
Two high pressure systems are going to “park” Rita over Texas, Arkansas, Lousiana, Oklahoma, Alabama – take your pick. I’ve even seen some computer models bringing back out over the Gulf. Nobody has a clue where she is going to end up.
While doing the dance Rita is expected to drop up to 20 and maybe 30 inches of rain on some areas.
DeLay’s district is South and a little west of Houston. If the Brazos river floods, his district may sit in high water for a short while, but otherwise it will be a bit easier than for Galveston.
Bet his district gets a lot of FEMA money, though.
Should be only a bit of heavy rain on Crawford, TX though. He’s about 200 miles from the coast and nearly 200 miles west of the anticipated path of the eye over East Texas.
Um–no Delay’s district includes the west end of Galveston Island-since the recent red- or re-districting. He very carefully adjusted it so it included the errr- richer parts of the island.
When I lived there ,the island was all one district, and Dems outnumbered Rethugs,but since Delay got his re-districting in his pocket– weell- you can figure that out.
Boy. Does this ever strike a chord. Rita is following very much the same path as Audrey did in 1957. I grew up in Beaumont, and had a morning paper route then. No TV and not a lot of hullabaloo about the hurricane, so I got up at three AM and threw my papers. Finished about 8:30 instead of the usual 5:30. [Not dumb – just a teenager.]
About a hundred miles east over 300 people were killed in Cameron Parish. We later heard that the survivors got to high ground and had to fight off snakes, also looking for high ground. That was before the Interstate Highway system, so the road nets would not have allowed an evacuation, even with the much smaller populations.
When Carla hit Texas in 1961 I left home a week early to go to college well inland. That was the hurricane that Dan Rather, as a local Houston TV reporter, covered from Galveston. It made his reputation and got him hired by the CBS network. That was also the first hurricane to get a lot of TV coverage, as I recall.
I’ve sat out a couple of hurricanes in Houston, too. For one, I was down at NASA Road One across from the Space Center, and by the time I decided to evacuate Highway 45 going north was a parking lot. So I went back to a bar across from the Space Center, and the bartender and two waitresses and I sat that one out. They were drinking straight shots of Schnapps (which I can’t stand) so I matched them with Cuervo Gold. The hurricane hit west of us and dropped 18 inches of rain in about 12 hours on us.
But I have never seen an evacuation like the one from Houston. The population has never been as much as it is now. They say it is about 2 million, but the metropolitan area is about 5 million or more. Interstate 45 going north to Dallas is crowded a lot on a Sunday afternoon, but travels 60 MPH. Still, that is nothing like the numbers of an evacuation.
Downtown and north are high enough to not get too flooded, although the drainage of the city is bad. It will flood, but unlike New Orleans, it drains out. Houston floods with a heavy rain anyway.
Houston is also on the west side of the hurricane, so the rain it carries will mostly drop to the east in Louisiana (like – Cameron Parish.) That’s where the tornadoes will be spawned, also. I hope the rice crop has been harvested already.
I lived in New Orleans for a couple of years, also. So Katrina-Rita are hitting my stomping grounds.
Fort Worth. High and dry – and the tornado that took out the Bank One building in downtown fort Worth in 2001 lifted up about half a mile from my home and jumped over me. Left my terrier barking like mad. The tornado dropped back down in Arlington about five or six miles east of me. No one killed or seriously hurt.
But it doesn’t flood here. I’ve escaped that. [Grin] I like high ground and second floor apartments for some strange reason.
The city has its share of refugees, both Katrina and Rita, and the bus that burned was 30 miles east of here. Our situation sort of reminds me of an old Jimmy Stewart movie where he played an Army Engineer in China during WW II and had to operate around the refugees. ‘Cept this is in color with cars, not carts.
We expect rain here Sunday night, but hurricanes pick up the water from the Gulf, so most of it will have dropped before it gets this far north. The Trinity River, Neches River and Sabine river will all flood as they take the water back to the Gulf.
East Texas is piney woods country, like North Louisiana. (The dry plains of Texas start here in Fort Worth and west of Interstate 45.) The area from Beaumont south, and east to Mississippi and beyond is swamp country, and so is west from Beaumont to Houston. It’s all low coastal plain. Good rice country, and that is the big crop. It floods but drains quick, except when a hurricane goes inland and keeps dropping more water as it goes. Then the floods last about a day or two longer than the hurricane does.
According to the weather woman Fort Worth will probably get an inch or two of rain Sunday night. Never can tell if a hurricane will wobble a bit, though.
It’s funny about Dallas and Fort worth. The climate is different for the two cities.
Dallas is East Texas pine forest and taller trees. Fort worth, 30 miles west, is drier and doesn’t have the tall trees. Instead it is Texas High Plains with more of a southwest type vegetation. Fort Worth is a Southwestern city while Dallas is East Texas. A city dweller might miss the difference until he started trying to find what vegetation to buy for his lawn. A farmer would notice in a heartbeat.
Dallas-Fort Worth Airport was built between the two cities in the early 70’s, and since then the two counties plus Denton county to the north have grown into a single metropolitan area of roughly 6 1/2 million people. The two major cities in Tarrant country (Fort Worth and Arlington) have well over a million people. Dallas is a bit larger so it is what everyone notices. Fort Worth is a lot more liveable.
No, I don’t work for the Chamber of Commerce. I just find Fort Worth the second most comfortable city in Texas (after Austin) and since I haven’t been back to Austin in a long time, maybe Fort Worth is better.
At the time of Alicia I was living in College Station, but I did a two week tour of active duty writing field training exercises for the Army and Alicia hit right in the middle of it. That was in Houston. So I slept through most of Alicia in a motel on Main Street a bit South of Rice University.
No power or light, and dark all day as well as night, so there was nothing to do by crawl in bed and sleep.
I imagine Port Arthur got the rain then, but with no radio or TV I had no idea what was happening. I later saw pictures of the big window panes from the sky scrapers downtown popping out and falling like dead leaves from a tree. Fortunately, no one got hit by one.
Here ya girlfriend about the smoking. I have gone way over the top since Katrina. At that point I thought I was getting a handle on it. It makes me feel so sluggish. Need cheesecake for a little rush right now. I need to go to sleep and just can’t seem to get off this damn computer. I want to hear more from our folks out there in DC and I bet they are all sleeping like a bunch of drun…er babies right now. LOL!
Actually, I loved it because Stossel is such a ‘winger gas-gouging-is-moral-and-capitalism-at-its-finest ass. I was hoping he’d get huffy, but he disappointed.
P.S. Did anyone else see that Ayn Rand dude defending gas gouging last night? I forget which show it was on.
He has done yeoman’s work urging people to hunker down in advance of yet another devestating hurricane that will cause storm surges in Texas reminding people of the 1900 hurricane in Galveston, Texas. He’s consistently told people to batten down the hatches or evacuate to higher ground especially avoiding the eye of the hurricane because the magnitude of the flooding in Texas could match that of Katrina in places if levees are breached or storm walls fail.
CNN is reporting the Bush administration is declaring a Public Health emergency for Texas and Louisiana in anticipation of Rita. (Duh. Ya THINK!)
“The government already had moved some emergency medical supplies to Texas, but Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt declared a public health emergency to ease some of the requirements for hurricane victims who seek Medicaid or other assistance after the storm, a spokesman said. “
I guess there are white people in danger.
I don’t know when the declaration was made but the story was filed on CNN around 6:00 PM. Gosh. That leaves plenty of time to move supplies into the area don’t it?
But don’t worry. They will be able to move the supplies into the area – through all those blocked roads.
I just want to smack these dumb shits upside the head.
CNN just brought Miles O’Brien on for continuing live coverage. Apparently, he’s getting blown away by 40 knot winds but I can’t see him because he’s wearing camoflauge pants. Just as well…he’s annoying.
Thanks! I actually OD’d on mojo from C&J and had to go to rehab. I can only handle minimal social mojo now.
I’m off to bed. My daughter, the fiance and the grandherb are going to be here bright & early. I’m so zipped up I have no idea how I’ll actually sleep.
Ducky has a way of getting down to business! 🙂
Where’s the Cheesecake Thread?? Geez…
This is a true confession. I have been known to buy frozen cheesecake at the supermarket, and eat it frozen. it’s extremely delicious that way… i think i like it better than when it’s thawed.
I do almost the opposite – put ice cream in the microwave (just 15 seconds or so) to soften it up.
Defrost the cheesecake. Top with blueberries. Eat while drinking black cajun coffee (or espresso for you effete Easterners.
The bitter of the coffee is the perfect counterpoint to the sweet of the blueberries and cheesecake.
Just a sinful suggestion.
I mean, yeah do it but for god’s sake keep it hidden! Perverts 🙂
It’s not ‘sin’ it is artery clogging frozen animal fat. yech!
I had some yam fries the other day as my friend explained, I might as well eat the menu since there was no food value in the yam fries. But, they were soooooo good.
The Blue Mesa Grill here in Fort Worth makes thick potato chips out of sweet potatoes. Serves them as appetizers with the meal like the tostado chips in most mexican food restaurants.
Really good. Low salt, also.
Their whole menu is unexpected and extremely good. Some chef is showing some real imagination.
Check your e-mail.
This is my mom-in-law’s recipe. It is outstanding (though it never comes out as good as hers when I make it).
Crust:
1 1/2 c. graham crackers crumbs
1/4 c. Confectioners Sugar
1 t. allspice
1/3 c. melted butter
Spread on bottom of 9″ springform pan, pressing some up on the sides to form a rim 1/2″ to 3/4″ high.
Filling:
2 (8 oz.) pkgs of cream cheese
2 eggs beaten lightly
2/3 c. sugar
2 t. vanilla
Stir cheese until soft & creamy. Add eggs, sugar, vanilla. Beat until thoroughly creamed & smooth. Pour into crust. Bake 350 for 25 min. Turn oven to 450. Remove and top with 1 1/2 c. sour cream, 4 T. sugar, 2 t. vanilla. Bake for 7 min. more. Cool and chill
Uh oh. Fatwa! I think we may also need a Recipes and Food thread!
March and Storm Food Thread
also I posted the March post from yesterday on kos, if anybody wants to go over there and punch it, maybe it will make somebody march who wasn’t going to.
For Those Who Will March, I Ask a Favor
also I posted the March post from yesterday on kos, if anybody wants to go over there and punch it,
My knuckles are starting to hurt form punching diaries across the aisle… lol
Done. Free 4s too… Well, except for the one person that had to complain about 1 little line in your whole diary.
Everyone has seperate issues they want on the table.
For some of them the 1 issue is that they think there are too many issues on the table.
Kind of hypocritical for them to complain about “others” 1 issue? (imho) Not that I will tell them to shut up about it.
Freedom of speech guarentees us all many things… Among them is the right to be a hypocrite.
Done buddy!
mmmmmmmmmmmmm….I just melted………
From my brother in Houston:
huge hugs for you as you wait for further word from him…
second that thought.
They are on the NW side of Houston away from the coast. Jim Cantore is in downtown Houston and still just in a t-shirt. They are probably going to be ok as long as no trees or other large flying objects get sent their way. He says Houston ran out of gas, bread, plywood, batteries, flashlights, etc on Tuesday. He used up all his ductape (sorry fatwa) on his windows. They are as set as they can be. Smart fella, he video-taped his house inside and out yesterday for insurance purposes if it gets damaged.
Good to hear your brother is so well-prepared. I hadn’t heard that Houston had run out of supplies so early.
Weather Channel storm chaser. He rode out Katrina in Gulfport, Ms. He is an excellent and highly experienced weather reporter but Katrina really shook him. Watching him report live on the Weather Channel I can see what conditions are in Houston. He says the “ceiling is starting to drop” which indicates it is about to get serious there.
just had some guy in Louisiana — they’re getting hit pretty hard; he said “it’s getting pretty dangerous out here, so I’m going to say good night to everyone and head inside!” Smart fella…
Buzz, my brother, says people started freaking out Tuesday and emptied stores and gas stations. Yesterday he said the gridlock was so bad he couldn’t even back out of his driveway. By the end of the day he could get out the driveway but not out of their development before hitting gridlock again. They had planned on heading to Austin where their boys are in school but gave up that idea and prepared the house as best they could.
If your nephews need anything, get my contact info. from susan — we are hunkered down here too, the winds come in spurts (very gusty for a 1/2 hour or so, then still, still, foreboding air, repeat until midnight when we are to have 20-30 mile per hour winds)….
Anywho, we are fine but just giving the option of another communication network for your nephews should they need it!
We’ll be thinking about everyone!!
Thanks. I appreciate the offer. I’m sure the boys (twins) will be fine… unless we don’t/can’t hear from their parents and sister in Houston for awhile.
Cool! Well, keep us updated and I’ll post any new news from here as I am able!
Your brother sounds like he has got everything covered best as he can. That’s all any of us can do…
Just kidding – you guys take care. I’ll be thinking about you!
Actually, yes, not folded, but washed and dried and that’s enough!
thanks for the thoughts!
😉
Don’t fold it! It’s just going to be used again anyway – sooner or later. 🙂
My thoughts are with you Brin, tonight, have been specially checking for news of Austin. Glad you are all prepared…
As important as Hurricane Rita is/will be, I also want to remind people of the hurricane of anti-war protestors about to descend on DC. If you’d like to see the media give SOME coverage to that instead of complete wall-to-wall Rita coverage, I’ve posted a media contact list over at my diary on Kos.
please also post it in the March Thread
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2005/9/23/2110/37048
Will the MSM be able to walk and chew gum at the same time? We’ll soon find out. Meanwhile, Bushy is secure in Colorado and Cheney’s going in for aneurysm surgery tomorrow. I’m sure the rest of the Republicans will be hiding in some undisclosed location in DC to avoid the storm of reality coming their way.
It looks like the eyewall is approaching the coast.
A pretty picture here
Bourque has some good links to hurricane Rita info and, if you’re bored, you can read some canuck news stories too.
Canuck stories ARE boring, Catnip!
That’s because they’re so normal, and we in the U.S. are used to such insane news.
I get my frozen tundra stories direct from the confidential “Informed Sources News Agency” headquartered (and hind-quartered!) in Toronto.
My agents are everywhere.
You will be comforted to know that while hurricane Rita devestates the southern coast, Karl Rove will be in North Dakota speaking at a party fundraiser. Sen Frank Lautenberg is not amused.
What would you like me to tell the little prick?
“I hope you enjoy your time in prison.”
ejmw, Great suggestion! I’ll let you know if I get an answer.
Thanks for the help, I wasn’t feeling too creative this evening. I think I exhausted my supply of swear words on the Katrina fkups.
I bet he’d just flip you off.
That would sum up the mentality and maturity of these guys.
btw, do you think they’ll really let you in to a Republican fundraiser? I wouldn’t show up with your BooTrib ID on your nametag 🙂
live cams here…
Are you watching Aaron?
What was that guy saying about the storm, once it hits land, staying in the same spot and pouring rain down for 5+ days?
I’m watching Aaron but I missed that because I’m surfing the cams too.
Yeah… that’s going to mean some serious flooding issues in the northeastern corner of texas, southwestern of Arkansas, and northwestern of Louisiana. Not goodness. Not goodness at all.
Aaron’s reporter in Galveston told a story…
he said the mayor got a lot of buses to encourage people to leave early, and get out of danger … and it really worked.
He also said that the mayor “is a neat person” — she told people that they can take their pets WITH THEM when they evacuate. Hooray!
I think she’s that no nonsense gray-haired woman who’s a bit like Barbara Bush except nice and very knowledgeable.
They’ve made a provision that, if she’s killed in the hurricane, her mayor pro tem — who’s staying away from the storm — will take over.
The reporter also said that there are two buildings on fire in Galveston.
I saw Anderson interview the mayor last nite and he seemed to like her quite a bit. Maybe she’s his surrogate mother for the duration. 🙂
Okay. I just saw the CNN weather dude say the storm will stop and sit on TX for four days (Susan). What’s up with that?
WTF? Seriously?
Noah…paging Noah…cleanup on aisle TX.
Two high pressure systems are going to “park” Rita over Texas, Arkansas, Lousiana, Oklahoma, Alabama – take your pick. I’ve even seen some computer models bringing back out over the Gulf. Nobody has a clue where she is going to end up.
While doing the dance Rita is expected to drop up to 20 and maybe 30 inches of rain on some areas.
The rain prediction mentioned above has been withdrawn and now they are calling for 12 – 20 inches.
finally, a bit of good news tonight.
but what’s under it is DeLay and Bush country.
DeLay’s district is South and a little west of Houston. If the Brazos river floods, his district may sit in high water for a short while, but otherwise it will be a bit easier than for Galveston.
Bet his district gets a lot of FEMA money, though.
Should be only a bit of heavy rain on Crawford, TX though. He’s about 200 miles from the coast and nearly 200 miles west of the anticipated path of the eye over East Texas.
Um–no Delay’s district includes the west end of Galveston Island-since the recent red- or re-districting. He very carefully adjusted it so it included the errr- richer parts of the island.
When I lived there ,the island was all one district, and Dems outnumbered Rethugs,but since Delay got his re-districting in his pocket– weell- you can figure that out.
Oh, yeah. Redistricting. Forgot that.
CNN weatherman as I write is saying it will go in as far in as a little east of Dallas, then park for FOUR DAYS.
Who’s the brown-haired weatherman dude on camera in the storm? He’s, like, dumb.
He’s probably Nora O’Donnell’s brother. Are you still up? How is your cold doing?
Bush is going to make two stops in Texas on Saturday.
My guess:
Boy. Does this ever strike a chord. Rita is following very much the same path as Audrey did in 1957. I grew up in Beaumont, and had a morning paper route then. No TV and not a lot of hullabaloo about the hurricane, so I got up at three AM and threw my papers. Finished about 8:30 instead of the usual 5:30. [Not dumb – just a teenager.]
About a hundred miles east over 300 people were killed in Cameron Parish. We later heard that the survivors got to high ground and had to fight off snakes, also looking for high ground. That was before the Interstate Highway system, so the road nets would not have allowed an evacuation, even with the much smaller populations.
When Carla hit Texas in 1961 I left home a week early to go to college well inland. That was the hurricane that Dan Rather, as a local Houston TV reporter, covered from Galveston. It made his reputation and got him hired by the CBS network. That was also the first hurricane to get a lot of TV coverage, as I recall.
I’ve sat out a couple of hurricanes in Houston, too. For one, I was down at NASA Road One across from the Space Center, and by the time I decided to evacuate Highway 45 going north was a parking lot. So I went back to a bar across from the Space Center, and the bartender and two waitresses and I sat that one out. They were drinking straight shots of Schnapps (which I can’t stand) so I matched them with Cuervo Gold. The hurricane hit west of us and dropped 18 inches of rain in about 12 hours on us.
But I have never seen an evacuation like the one from Houston. The population has never been as much as it is now. They say it is about 2 million, but the metropolitan area is about 5 million or more. Interstate 45 going north to Dallas is crowded a lot on a Sunday afternoon, but travels 60 MPH. Still, that is nothing like the numbers of an evacuation.
Downtown and north are high enough to not get too flooded, although the drainage of the city is bad. It will flood, but unlike New Orleans, it drains out. Houston floods with a heavy rain anyway.
Houston is also on the west side of the hurricane, so the rain it carries will mostly drop to the east in Louisiana (like – Cameron Parish.) That’s where the tornadoes will be spawned, also. I hope the rice crop has been harvested already.
I lived in New Orleans for a couple of years, also. So Katrina-Rita are hitting my stomping grounds.
Where do you live now?
Fort Worth. High and dry – and the tornado that took out the Bank One building in downtown fort Worth in 2001 lifted up about half a mile from my home and jumped over me. Left my terrier barking like mad. The tornado dropped back down in Arlington about five or six miles east of me. No one killed or seriously hurt.
But it doesn’t flood here. I’ve escaped that. [Grin] I like high ground and second floor apartments for some strange reason.
The city has its share of refugees, both Katrina and Rita, and the bus that burned was 30 miles east of here. Our situation sort of reminds me of an old Jimmy Stewart movie where he played an Army Engineer in China during WW II and had to operate around the refugees. ‘Cept this is in color with cars, not carts.
We expect rain here Sunday night, but hurricanes pick up the water from the Gulf, so most of it will have dropped before it gets this far north. The Trinity River, Neches River and Sabine river will all flood as they take the water back to the Gulf.
East Texas is piney woods country, like North Louisiana. (The dry plains of Texas start here in Fort Worth and west of Interstate 45.) The area from Beaumont south, and east to Mississippi and beyond is swamp country, and so is west from Beaumont to Houston. It’s all low coastal plain. Good rice country, and that is the big crop. It floods but drains quick, except when a hurricane goes inland and keeps dropping more water as it goes. Then the floods last about a day or two longer than the hurricane does.
According to the weather woman Fort Worth will probably get an inch or two of rain Sunday night. Never can tell if a hurricane will wobble a bit, though.
I was in Dallas once but I didn’t see the surrounding countryside. I remember the huge iced teas and my first experience with grits fondly.
It’s funny about Dallas and Fort worth. The climate is different for the two cities.
Dallas is East Texas pine forest and taller trees. Fort worth, 30 miles west, is drier and doesn’t have the tall trees. Instead it is Texas High Plains with more of a southwest type vegetation. Fort Worth is a Southwestern city while Dallas is East Texas. A city dweller might miss the difference until he started trying to find what vegetation to buy for his lawn. A farmer would notice in a heartbeat.
Dallas-Fort Worth Airport was built between the two cities in the early 70’s, and since then the two counties plus Denton county to the north have grown into a single metropolitan area of roughly 6 1/2 million people. The two major cities in Tarrant country (Fort Worth and Arlington) have well over a million people. Dallas is a bit larger so it is what everyone notices. Fort Worth is a lot more liveable.
No, I don’t work for the Chamber of Commerce. I just find Fort Worth the second most comfortable city in Texas (after Austin) and since I haven’t been back to Austin in a long time, maybe Fort Worth is better.
“…two waitresses…straight shots of Schnapps…I matched them with Cuervo Gold…”
Hmmm! That must have been an interesting evening?
Such an evening is utterly dull after about the third drink. It’s mostly a time-killer with an expensive price the next day.
I’m certainly glad you clarified that for me!! I’d been lying awake with visions…
Lately, the Coronas have been fewer and fewer, what with increasing contributions to Katrina aftermath and HChavez-gas.
That’s the only hurricane I’ve ever been through…I was in Port Arthur.
I was only 5 though, so all I remember about it was chillin’ under the kitchen table for a while, and then playing in some floodwater the next day.
At the time of Alicia I was living in College Station, but I did a two week tour of active duty writing field training exercises for the Army and Alicia hit right in the middle of it. That was in Houston. So I slept through most of Alicia in a motel on Main Street a bit South of Rice University.
No power or light, and dark all day as well as night, so there was nothing to do by crawl in bed and sleep.
I imagine Port Arthur got the rain then, but with no radio or TV I had no idea what was happening. I later saw pictures of the big window panes from the sky scrapers downtown popping out and falling like dead leaves from a tree. Fortunately, no one got hit by one.
link here…lots of info – photo, video, audio too…
…is getting blown away by 80 mph winds. He needs to gain some weight!
When do they decide to go inside? This is just crazy isn’t it? Got any cheesecake?
to getting my news from the blogs?
After reading your post, I was thinking “Man, I bet this would be interesting to watch.”
About 10 seconds later I realized I had a TV less than 6 feet from me.
Cnn weather dude told Anderson to get some goggles and Anderson said he’s close to their vehicle.
Got cheesecake? I wish! I’m smoking my lungs out here and I’ve had a tension headache since yesterday…maybe it’s a cheesecake deficiency…
Here ya girlfriend about the smoking. I have gone way over the top since Katrina. At that point I thought I was getting a handle on it. It makes me feel so sluggish. Need cheesecake for a little rush right now. I need to go to sleep and just can’t seem to get off this damn computer. I want to hear more from our folks out there in DC and I bet they are all sleeping like a bunch of drun…er babies right now. LOL!
I don’t want to be worrying over you like I’m worrying over my brother — please quit… 🙁
Anderson just said, “I’ve lost a lot of weight the past month and I might just blow away”.
Either he’s reading this thread or we have some weird psychic connection.
queue Twilight Zone Theme music
I just flipped to ABC’s 20/20. John Stossel was beginning an interview with a gentleman at the Nat’l Hurricane Center:
JOHN STOSSEL: So, Mr. Mayfield, is Rita slowing down?
MR. MAYFIELD: Not at all, Aaron.
Jeebus.
Where does they get these morons?
Actually, I loved it because Stossel is such a ‘winger gas-gouging-is-moral-and-capitalism-at-its-finest ass. I was hoping he’d get huffy, but he disappointed.
P.S. Did anyone else see that Ayn Rand dude defending gas gouging last night? I forget which show it was on.
what the heck else are people fleeing for lives good for if not a quick buck?
Give Mr Mayfield a medal – someone – anyone!?
He has done yeoman’s work urging people to hunker down in advance of yet another devestating hurricane that will cause storm surges in Texas reminding people of the 1900 hurricane in Galveston, Texas. He’s consistently told people to batten down the hatches or evacuate to higher ground especially avoiding the eye of the hurricane because the magnitude of the flooding in Texas could match that of Katrina in places if levees are breached or storm walls fail.
Have I covered all of the talking points?
“No Shit, Sherlock”
CNN is reporting the Bush administration is declaring a Public Health emergency for Texas and Louisiana in anticipation of Rita. (Duh. Ya THINK!)
“The government already had moved some emergency medical supplies to Texas, but Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt declared a public health emergency to ease some of the requirements for hurricane victims who seek Medicaid or other assistance after the storm, a spokesman said. “
I guess there are white people in danger.
I don’t know when the declaration was made but the story was filed on CNN around 6:00 PM. Gosh. That leaves plenty of time to move supplies into the area don’t it?
But don’t worry. They will be able to move the supplies into the area – through all those blocked roads.
I just want to smack these dumb shits upside the head.
I just want to smack these dumb shits upside the head.
Have at it.
That’s FUN!
whompwhompwhompwhomp
FDA head Lester Crawford has resigned.
His qualifications for the job were, “An affable veterinarian who specialized in food safety…”
Yup. Lets put someone in charge of the FDA with in-depth knowledge of how much corn a cow needs to to eat to remain healthy. Makes sense to me.
Then you must be equally impressed by the new head of Immigration and Customs.
CNN just brought Miles O’Brien on for continuing live coverage. Apparently, he’s getting blown away by 40 knot winds but I can’t see him because he’s wearing camoflauge pants. Just as well…he’s annoying.
You’re actually missed over at dKos — at least on C&J… 🙂
And what are you doing still up??? I’m going to be a good girl and head for bed soon…
Thanks! I actually OD’d on mojo from C&J and had to go to rehab. I can only handle minimal social mojo now.
I’m off to bed. My daughter, the fiance and the grandherb are going to be here bright & early. I’m so zipped up I have no idea how I’ll actually sleep.
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