Lights out. The storm hasn't even really hit and Galveston is already flooding.

It's hard to believe there are some people not leaving the danger area. May The Force be with them, but you wouldn't find me hanging around.

Remember, Mt. Saint Helens ereupted but they never could get Harry to come down...........

All I can say is if disaster were to hit here I would probably be one of the first to flee the area. <vaunt> I mean, living in such close proximity to Highways 14 & 205 after all ;o) </vaunt>

What I find hard to believe is *why* people would leave an area during a disaster, maybe it's a matter of pride...or else they may be congenitally insane, or irretreivably stupid of course.....

Ah well, to each his own.

Texans are a different breed. Plus, nobody remembers the Galveston hurricane in 1900 that killed 8,000. And the water surge then was less than is predicted this time. Recipe for disaster in the next 24 hours.

Here's a 1994 newscast about that 1900 storm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX88xLJVfpI

The way they're talking, there's going to be very little left of Galveston. Maybe just foundations.

Many of us did not leave Miami when Andrew was coming, either.

You know you may have little to nothing left afterward, but if you have anything AT ALL, you think of looters stealing the little that's left. People were looting before Andrew: searching for the homes and businesses left by evacuees, knowing the owners couldn't take everything along.

You hope it's not as bad as the predictions, that where you live doesn't get hammered as badly as they say it will...

And in the back of your mind, you always think, "I'll live through this!" even as the roof is ripped off your home and glass is flying all around you...

Here's the biggie: where you gonna go? As we've seen time and time again, some places are willing to absorb evacuees, and many just say, "Keep going. No room for you here." The only people I knew who left town went where they had friends or relatives. So, which is safer: your car, should you be stranded in it somewhere along the way, or your house?