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fuck.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

that's my grandmother's name dude. watch it.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

i always knew slocki's grandmother was rita rudner

― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)

i shouldn't have let my guard down there

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ritafunny.com/opening/opening.gif

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

this is what you get for posting personal info on ile...mocked by trolls

― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

my grandma's name is miriam.

― the happy smile patrol (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

GO NUTS

― the happy smile patrol (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

i am going to houston soon

― kurt broder (dr g), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

http://www.miriam.co.uk/genimgs/mslogo1.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

clap your hands say cack, more like

― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

i kind of feel bad for responding goofily to what was perhaps a genuine cri du coeur.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

well generally 2005 seems to be: God-to-Gulf-Coast - "You had a good run."

― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

we must not forget to laugh in times of crisis

― the happy smile patrol (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

all fema bungling aside, mother nature is fucking scary!

― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

and beautiful of course. when not killing us.

― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

all fema bungling aside, mother nature is fucking scary!

grandmother nature is even worse -- she uses her handbag!

― the happy smile patrol (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

i shouldn't have let my guard down there

there's a michael brown joke in there somewhere

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

for some reason i can't log in.

I wouldn't go to Houston anytime soon. They are moving NO evacuees out of here to Ark. so we can accept Galveston evacuees. Boy these people's lives are shit right now.

And the second top local news story tonight? How will Rita affect the ACL festival.

― MissMisery, Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)

I saw that bit of news, Sam. TXCN had the people of KVUE talking about the plans for the ACL fest and how the planners have the concerns of the fans first and foremost in their minds, etc. It was a rather small chunk of repeated TXCN content so I don't know how annoyingly inappropriate that might've been in the grand scale of things, but even if it were, it does seem pertinent. It's a local event that'll probably be impacted by Rita, so.... On the same token, the local news HERE has talked in rather serious tones how Friday night high school football games would be moved up a day to tomorrow night because of Rita, which is equally as absurd but also equally as sensible and relevant.

― (This Field Left Blank) (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 22 September 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

BTW, I'm starting to get this sinking feeling that all of the hubbub locally is going to be all much ado about very little, if anything at all. I don't really see that much of an impact being made locally from what'll be going on in the Gulf Coast. Mind you, I'd be more than happy to eat my words if it turns out the crazed mad frenzy for bottled water, batteries, flashlights, and generators WILL have been handy and useful, but TBH I don't see how Rita will hit us aside from the massive influx of evacuees coming in from the Houston area and from Corpus Christi.

― (This Field Left Blank) (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 22 September 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

i will be in houston tuesday night!

― kurt broder (dr g), Thursday, 22 September 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

don't go outside.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 22 September 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

probably won't be much of an option.

― kurt broder (dr g), Thursday, 22 September 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

WORST...METERMAID...EVER.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 22 September 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

Projected path now aiming at landfall along the eastern shore of Galveston Bay.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Thursday, 22 September 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

Yes and if it stays at a 4 or 5 there will be flooding as far as Houston. As far inland as here (Austin) we're told to expect 60-70mph winds, 2-4 inches of rain, possible flooding and power outages and isolated tornadoes. Fun!

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 22 September 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

I can only imagine that the geniuses who decided to build a P4 BIOHAZARD CONTAINMENT LABORATORY

― quincie, Thursday, 22 September 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

Oops. Ahem:

I can only imagine that the geniuses who decided to build a P4 BIOHAZARD CONTAINMENT LABORATORY at the University of Texas Medical Branch--Galveston are hating their lives right now. How to get rid of the ebola, anthrax, lassa, etc.?

― quincie, Thursday, 22 September 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

well, we got a staff email this morning asking for voulnteers to house staff & faculty evacuees from our sister institutions. They had a checklist of what you would accept (cats, smokers) inc. an "other". Perhaps they're hoping someone will write in "ebola"?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 22 September 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

"Oh, no problem, mad scientist--you can just stick that ebola in my freezer next to the popsicles!"

― quincie, Thursday, 22 September 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

that is sort of funny but not really, of course

I hope this doesn't turn out very badly

crosspost

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 22 September 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

clar: I'm not saying you shouldn't laugh!

just reminding myself

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 22 September 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

Remember the no-choicers who thought that Katrina resembled a fetus, and was God's revenge against the pro-choice New Orleans area?

Wonder what they make of this:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/images/2005/09/21/Weather-Service.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 22 September 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

God says "Suck on THIS!!!"

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 22 September 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Rita ain't just any typ'a lady, that's fer sure! </Henny Youngman violin sqeal>

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Thursday, 22 September 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

When will they name hurricanes after hermaphrodite's child?

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Thursday, 22 September 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

(in any case, to all my Texan friends, PLEASE stay safe... this is fucking crazy..)

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Thursday, 22 September 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

http://traffic.houstontranstar.org/cameras/camtext.aspx

Houston highway traffic cams

some full, some empty

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 22 September 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

the repaired levees in New Orleans are failing.

Dozens of blocks in the Ninth Ward were under water as a waterfall at least 30 feet wide poured over and through a dike that had been used to patch breaks in the Industrial Canal levee. On the street that runs parallel to the canal, the water ran waist-deep and was rising fast. Guidry said water was rising about three inches a minute.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 23 September 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Horrible.

My brother in law is working in the Garden District which I think is on other side of town from 9th Ward. Any news/updates are good to have; I don't have a tv. He hadn't heard about the levee break when we called him.

― Thea (Thea), Friday, 23 September 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Fucking hell, this is just awful.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/23/rita/index.html

HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- A bus caught fire and exploded early Friday on a crowded Texas interstate, killing as many as 24 people who were fleeing ahead of Hurricane Rita.

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 23 September 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

and, unsurprisingly, Houston's poor are stranded in the city, in deja vu shocker.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/23/rita.evacuees.ap/index.html

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 23 September 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Live shoutcast feed from a bunch of podcasters in the area:

http://www.houstonpodcasting.net:8000/listen.pls

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 23 September 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

I discovered today that this is headed straight for my grandmother in Texarkana. Her house is particularly vulnerable to floods and tornadoes so my uncle will probably take her to stay with him in Ft Worth...ugh.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Boy, it's looking weird out there right now. The sky's all dark-grey. The wind is blowing from an indeterminate location. Squirrels shouldn't have any problems finding acorns after this weekend.

I mean, look at this. That little orange hamster's got his eye on Pine Bluff!

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/5704/mapspectrop06ltst6nhenus600x41.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 24 September 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

still flying out tuesday

trying to mail something to houston for monday delivery has been fun times

― kurt broder (dr g), Saturday, 24 September 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

http://i.imgur.com/w8qbgc1.jpg

― the ﬁnal twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Friday, 10 October 2014 19:29 (eleven years ago)

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