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Hurricane party that is.  ;D  [bacon]

ya'll could evacuate to ruston and crash on on a pallette in the living room, the guest bed belongs to the dogs, sorry

Are any of you guys moving inland?  Take care and be safe... Hell come up to Dallas and watch the IndyGP w/ the DFW crew at AMS [thumbsup]

I thought the party is at your house joe? anyone for a short ride tomorrow, opps, it's already tomorrow today.

Dammit!! I forgot to set my DVR before I left home.  >:(   That's if I have a home to return to.  :-\

Yo Hiero, how close is your new home to the evac. zones? Hope all is well.


Wish I was home mang. I'm stuck at work, Boooo!!  :(

we're about to get our rockband on.  8)

if anyone of the southside peeps needs a place to stay, pm me.

www.motogp.com is worth the subscription  [thumbsup]

Not when you have www.racing-underground.com  [cheeky]  That's my Plan B.  ;D


I hate you. I'm more of a Guitar Hero person anyways.  :(

So if anyone has any pics of storm damage or intresting photos of this broohaha happening in our fine city, please post up!!!

Bring your hip waders if you want come party at my house! I won't be there though. Hell my house may not be there.

Hope my duc can swim. I put her on the bike lift and wished her the best.

Riding it out at my folks house in Santa Fe, we're gonna break out the margarita's shortly.

Hope everyone makes it through with no damage. [thumbsup]

I woke up late today and everything is being boarded up. I guess, I'm stuck with a jar of peanut butter and cereal. 
I hope everyone is staying safe.  Ducatibilt has the right spirit.  [thumbsup] 

Almost everything around me has been boarded up.  Here are a couple of interesting pics I took this afternoon
ONLY IN TEXAS
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Post hurricane party at El Matador's house! He is board to death supposedly.. ;D

I would totally be down for a post hurricane party at mi casa.

Yeah baby!! That's the spirit homie.

Sucks about the boards and preparations. Did you at least bring your bike inside?


Alvin, check out how you spelled BORED.  You got something on your mind dude?  ;D

Yo Damon, hope your home is ok mang. It was a smart thing you did putting that bike up on the lift.  [thumbsup]

Shayt ..just walked back from my across the street. I barely got blown.  This is pretty heavy win and it's not even the eye yet $V(D:?><?">

hope everyone is accounted for [thumbsup]

Hope everyone is OK and am very sorry about the hugh hassle - I been thru that drill in S.Tx & S.Fla  enuff to know what a drag it is. Haven't been able to reach my brother in Sugarland yet, and the news coverage is still pretty sketchy, but it seems pretty obvious that a lot of you guys are gonna' be without power for a good while - bummer.
A lot of hurricane evacuees from Houston here in CC - we didn't even get any wind or rain! Weird.
By the way, if any of you are looking to get out of town next weekend, we are having the Grand Opening for our new Photographic Art gallery & wine bar in the heart of the entertainment district here on Fri eve. Plenty of wine will be flowing, and we'll have food, too. For those of you more predisposed to burgers and beer, we are located right in front of Executive Surf Club and next to the Water Street Seafood Co., always plenty going on:

Accidental Sky Art & Wine
309D N. Water St.
Corpus Christi, Tx, 78411

http://www.waterstreetmarketcc.com/directory.cfm

Got a full house of out-of-towners next weekend, but some garage space if anyone needs to park their bike.

Good luck to all, and I'll see ya' when I sees ya'...

Roger that BB. Appreciate the extended invite.  [thumbsup]

The local news has broadcast that they're is approximately 4 million homes in the Houston metro area without power. Also reported are loss of wireless phone signal, possibly due to powerloss to the cell phone towers.

Hope everyone made it out of this relatively ok.  [popcorn]

Checkin in! I had to go out and rescue Desmolu and her mom during the night. Our power just came back, finally! Everyone else ok?

I hope everyone is ok.  This is the worst I have seen having been through the 1989 earthquake in SF, that was nothing compared to what I've seen around my neighborhood.

Here are some pictures just around my neighborhood.  My front porch is destroyed and backyard is destroyed and have some roof damage, still looking for a chainsaw to hack up the big tree is resting on my roof.  Here are some interesting pictures though to share with everyone..

http://s234.photobucket.com/albums/ee53/alvinchu/Hurricane/?albumview=slideshow

Be safe out there.
Alvin

How are you guys doing down there in Houston?

My family and my house made it through just fine. Luckily for me the eye came in where it did kept my house from being flooded. I'm right at a mile from Kemah which got completely destroyed. The effects of this storm were pretty far reaching for everyone in and around Houston. I'm one of the fortunate one's, I got power back by Sunday. But I still can't buy gas or find any groceries in my area. I had to ride into work this morning to stand around most of the day because there's no power at work. 35 mile commute with no power anywhere in between.

You might ask why we live here.  I've lived here all my life and I can't imagine being anywhere else. I love Austin and I love Dallas but Houston and ClearLake is home to me. If you live in our area you are being touched by this storm  if you are somewhere else in this great state of ours say a prayer for all effected by this. We'll rebuild it then invite you down to see it.

Godspeed to everyone!

Any word from David, Vince, or Frank?

I heard that David is ok. No word on the stats on his or his folks place though. I sent Frank and Vince a text, thay haven't responded.

I got word from Vince and Frank that they are ok.  Frank is actually out of town when the hurrican hit.  There's still no power at the house, but luckily I some great friends nearby with power.

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Alvin, That water if make the beast with two backsING high!!

Check out the pic in this link for a better idea of how high the water got in your area and in downtown Houston.
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-85059?ref=email#

The whole Houston/Galveston area got make the beast with two backsed!  :'( I have no other way to put it, sorry.


Haven't heard from David, hope he's ok. He lives near the hospital I work at and the hospital itself sustained substantial damage. I wouldn't doubt that his power is still out.

Vince came over to my place yesterday and we headed west to pick up a generator from my big sis. Family rocks!  [thumbsup]  She met us half way from Austin at Columbus to hand us a hot meal and a generator.

Frank is fine, he's out of town with his family.


Damon, you can not imagine how much I feared your home was among the devastation on 146 and Kemah. As you mentioned, that entire area was destroyed. I'm glad you and your family are well. If you need anything just call me. Seriously though, this isn't one of those polite comments made with no genuine intention. If you need help cleaning up or whatever just let me know.

The Red Cross is asking for donations, so if anyone has the ability to, please do so. Also in critical shortage is blood and blood products. Donate blood, it costs about 30 minutes of your time.

As the days slowly go by the reality continues to sink in. This is a sad time.

+1 Whatever anyone needs, you can count on me.

Come on by my neighborhood and I'll put you guys to work, really?  ;D

Seriously. Gimme a call. I don't start school till thursday.

I'm not sure what I can do from Dallas, but if there's anything you guys need don't hesitate to ask.

I wouldn't be opposed to going down there and dropping water/food/whatever

Bryant,
Most of the stores have ice, water, and food now.  Ice is still very limited because most people still do not have any power.  If you guys have the time and energy, the most important help (at least in the nearby neighborhoods that I know of) is debris removal, specifically availability of a chainsaw.  I have removed a mountain load of fallen trees just in our block since Sunday.  We'll be back there in my neighborhood again after lunch, so I won't be back online till later tonight.  Call me 713.385.2465 if you need to reach me.

Be safe everyone.

Jesus, I do not have your number. If you have some time, we'll be happy to have you help.  Call me 713.385.2465.

Thanks for the concern Bryan. We have a huge need for clean up and ice. I've got my dad coming in on Thursday with a couple of chain saws so we can help out the locals get large branches and trees out of their yards and streets.

If anyone is interested, we can organize a clean-up crew to assist people get their property back in order. Post up if you're interested or call me and we can get a list going. I have power and water at my home so I'll be happy to make this the jump off point, even feed you some samiches and 'tater chips.  ;)   Obviously Alvin has posted his area is in need of help, anyone else with a need please post up and we can make arrangements to form a plan of attack.  [thumbsup]

Just spoke with Paul, he and his family are doing well.  [thumbsup]

Joe if you say the word, I might be able to get there on Sat w/ a few chainsaws and coolers of ice.  I might be able to convince a few of the Dallas folks to lend a hand

just came back from alvin's. It looks a lot better. We're going back tomorrow to help some more.

Some more help would be awesome.

That's awesome Bryan. The damage is so extensive I don't even know where to or who to start with. As mentioned before, my home is relatively fine. Others aren't so lucky.

My fear in having you come down here is that you won't find gas to get back home. The little I drove around today has me realizing that it may continue to get worse before getting better. The lines at gas stations are utterly ridiculous. People for the most part look calm but I wouldn't doubt some are at the edge, ready to crack at any minute. If others need help I will post up and maybe if need be we can get a DML help crew together. I'd like to help the board members first before helping strangers but if no one voices a need then I may just sign up with the local Red Cross and county leaders.

Stay tuned.

The gas issue is really bad in town because power has yet to be restored.  The gas station on Richmond/Shepherd probably at least 20 cars (counted 6 blocks!) lining up for gas.  I thikn some gas station go their power back recently, so more will be opening up.


If you guys are willing to help, I know San Leon (near clear lake) got hit bad.  I'm heading down there to help on Thurs/Fri.

i'm alive  [thumbsup]

jimmy, what's the date on that event?   I've got a good friend who lives in CC and I'll pass the word along to him to go check it out


I've been out and about helping out where I can.  My new house got water inside, but it doesn't have anything inside, no floors or anything, so it looks like the baseboards will be the only things that need to be replaced (hopefully).  My rents' house also was relatively unharmed, fences down, a few shingles from the roof, but no water damage.

My parents' restaurant got broken into saturday night, but we were able to open and start selling food sunday night when we got power. 

If anyone is in need of some food, please let me know!  If you can get together with me and head over to the restaurant with me or when I'm there (won't be there purposefully for any length of time now, but you never know), then i can get you some great fried shrimp and burgers, just let me know.

Damn dude, sorry to hear about your parents restaurant. Things like this really put a damper on my faith in humanity.

Bummer about your new place as well. How does this affect your moving in schedule? is the construction company trying to screw you over?

nah, builder is good, probably moves the move into november

Manana, the 19th, between approx. 5p-9p...

I feel kinda' guilty having a big party while you guys are suffering so. Well, it'll be our turn soon enuff, no doubt. If anyone needs to get away for a few days to Corpus, where we have electricity and running water, let me know, maybe we can work something out - Good Luck!