This is from an email sent by my girlfriends father to her and her sister, both living here in Houston. Without this email, we would still be following these instructions because I don’t laugh in the face of danger, I get the hell out of its way! We will be leaving on Thursday night after we all get home from work around 8, pack up some clothes, laptops, iPods, food, water and important belongings and then load up the animals. No, we aren’t building an ark, but we are taking 2 dogs and a cat with at least 4, possibly 6-8 people. I’m sure this weekend will be interesting to say the least.
Bad things happen to people who do not take the force of nature seriously (arrogant people), and stupid people. Misfortune rarely has something to do with solely Black or White. With that aside, I as a weather guru extraordinaire would seriously encourage you to do the following:
Add the weather channel website to your list of favorites; so you can monitor this thing from work and home. THE THINGS TO MONITOR ARE:
It's path
It's strength
Keep in contact with your respective employers, and understand their emergency plans and your responsibilities therein.
Ya'll get together and try to decide if you need to act aggregately or singly.
Assuming the projected path, which you will be constantly monitoring, keeps Houston in its Bull's Eye, or the path is to your south (which is really worse) and assuming it is a Category 2 or greater, make plans to get the hell out of Dodge (or Houston as the case may be) by no later than Thursday night.
It appears that your best path would be to go east. This thing looks like it will go right through Dallas after it makes landfall. The only problem with East is you would have to almost come home to Florida to avoid all the damage from Katrina. Going west will be okay. The West side of a hurricane is the weakest. The N.E. quadrant has the highest winds and storm surge. I know heading east seems to be a dichotomy, but do you know someone with whom you can stay somewhere significantly west of Houston? You probably do, and you would be closer to coming back home sooner. You know you are always welcome at home, but are at least 12 hours away.
"Bottom Dwellers" I would either move the furniture you care about upstairs or elevate it off the floor with blocks or something.
If you are being aggregate refugees (yes refugees exist in America), I would recommend moving residual autos to the 2nd or higher floor of a parking garage. A, remember Allison?
Ladies, please take this seriously if it does become a 3 or 4, if you are stuck there, hurricanes are pretty scary. S and A were just little girls in 1985, when Hurricane Kate came through here. It was only a Category 2, and the town looked like a war zone, and we didn't have power or water for a week. I know Houston's resources are better, but so will be the damage.
Last of all remember. Things are not worth protecting, lives are. Somehow your respective employers businesses will survive without you for a day or two. Keep me informed, and I will reciprocate.
Love,
Dad
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