Good luck South Texas with IKE.

[Graydog]

Since I just moved from Houston into the wasteland I am watching Ike closely. Good luck Galveston & Houston If the storm stays on this path. Wish I were there although got to admit I won't miss the 16 on 8 off at work to restore normalcy with no electricity or water.

[RichInFla]

Yup, I agree with Gray..hope all of you in Texas fair well. For those of us in Florida, we're breathing a sigh of relief. Especially here on the east coast after Fay. We can't handle any more water !! Dodged a bullet this time, but based on the season so far, I'm thinking our luck is going to run out !! Take care those in Texas !!

[Magnar Infectus]

Ditto. Only I want a few more close calls. That way I get more "vacation" days from work.

[roscosmom]

Anyone in the upper Texas .... good luck! We got a lot of rain and wind from Ike....tornnadoes as well! First Gustav and now Ike...what the hell???? Is it a repeat of the Katrina, Rita punch???!!! What's next???

[Graydog]

Ike is entering AR now. Lots of tornado warnings around me. The siren has gone off several times in the last hour. But I'm lucky I have a storm cellar.

[music man]

Glad to here you are alright Graydog, I still haven't got hit hard yet, we had a little scare earlier, Probably about the same time you did. Storm cellar huh, I live in a trailer so if we do get a tornado, I am gonna be SOL!!!.

Later, and be safe

[Graydog]

Guess there won't be any riding tomorrow....eh music man.

[Jer]

I'm in a trailer too.

When that weather radio goes off and its a tornado warning we haul ass outta here.

Good thing Wal-Mart is open 24/7. Its about 300 yards from our place.

The nice thing is we're moving on Friday. House with a basement.

:)

[Sarris]

I'll have to check the Bikers Manual about you guys.

I don't know if you're allowed to be both Biker Trash and Trailer Trash at the same time.

Hmmm..............

Also, what the hell is a basement??

:crackup :crackup :crackup :crackup

[Jer]

:)

Basement means you may live if a tornado comes down your street.

[patrick_777]

...unless the house collapses into the basement.

Trust me on this.

[alanmcorcoran]

I don't know if you're allowed to be both Biker Trash and Trailer Trash at the same time.
Also, what the hell is a basement??

Sarris,

My CFO is both, but she prefers the term Mobile Home, thank you very much. Of course, the only time the things are ever mobile is when a tornado comes through.

Seriously, though, I've come close to getting my ass beat for using the term. And I didn't even add trash to it.

Re the basement. Had a huge one in New Jersey. Don't have em in California. Where the hell are you supposed to put your unused exercise and camping equipment? My garage looks like some kind of mutant Tetris game. Effing water heater's in there too!

[Sarris]

Alan, Floriduh is the home of hundreds of thousands of "mobile homes" and "trailer parks" It's one of the top old far....., I mean retirement area of the country.

We don't have basements either, and most of our houses are the slab on grade, concrete block, single floor variety.

:yawn: :yawn:

[Easy Rider]

The nice thing is we're moving on Friday. House with a basement.

:)

Hope that basement is not a swimming pool by tomorrow.
We are getting the monsoon rains now. My rain gauge tops out at 5 inches; I expect it to overflow before the day is over. :cry:
Just hope the power stays on and the sump pump keeps running !!
Sure glad I got it connected to a field tile last week.

[Jer]

Nope. We had our share of water this year.

Hurricanes dont make it this far.

[Easy Rider]

Hurricanes dont make it this far.

Yea, that's what I thought over here in Illinois.....not that far from you.
Ike, however, dropped about 5 inches on us in 24 hours.
You are not immune!!

[Sarris]

Chicago got a record rainfall today and there is street flooding all over. Who said hurricanes don't get that far north. Are you a global warming believer yet??

:cry:

[patrick_777]

Katrina was still a Tropical Depression all the way into southern Indiana. The storm system itself actually dropped over 5" of rain in upstate NY and was tracked all the way into Maine.

[Jer]

Oh we're getting rain from it of course. But nothing to accumulate in the basement.

[Easy Rider]

Are you a global warming believer yet??


No but I AM a "believer" in man-made, global climate change.

Or to put that a little more precisely, I have a LOT more faith in those who say it IS happening than I do in those who say it is not.

[music man]

Well, not that I think that any of you care or anything :tongue: but I'm back from the stone age, my lights have been of since Saturday evening, till about 15 minutes ago. That is the second time in a little over a week that I have had to go a couple of days without power(Damn Hurricanes). Sarris, you and your water loving, living by the sea friends need to keep your damn storms to your self :biggrin: .

But no in all seriousness, I hope that everyone on here that had to ride that storm out made it in one piece.

Later

[roscosmom]

We were fortunate...didnt lose our lights for IKE...did for Gustav! We now own a generator and small window unit. LOL. We only got tornadoes and winds/rains from IKE. BUt man, I feel for those of you in Texas near Beaumont and Gavenston...good luck to you all!!!!