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Just talked to my friends in Houston and they are wiring up the generators right now, this is lookin like a bad bish.
 
B Gillespie said:
Just talked to my friends in Houston and they are wiring up the generators right now, this is lookin like a bad bish.
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The news was speculating that the Houston was going to declare a state of emergency and maybe even make all lanes of traffic open to exit the city. Sounds like the real deal.
 
bigsilly said:
So where is Wyatt today?
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from his text:

"I'm bueno right now. I'ma be ready waiting with my shotgun. Only need to figure out if 1 wrap of duct tape for the beer to my hand for 80mph or 120mph getting three wraps"
 
MUCHADO said:
from his text:

"I'm bueno right now. I'ma be ready waiting with my shotgun. Only need to figure out if 1 wrap of duct tape for the beer to my hand for 80mph or 120mph getting three wraps"
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He needs nascar tape, that way he has no worries.
 
I talked to him last ngiht, guess I need to call back today and see if he's hanging on. Joel, he has to keep the lights on. their contingency is to fall back to HQ's in Cali, but they didn't 2 days ago, so now they are staying and keeping the lights on in a top secret underground lair in H town
 
MUCHADO said:
from his text:

"I'm bueno right now. I'ma be ready waiting with my shotgun. Only need to figure out if 1 wrap of duct tape for the beer to my hand for 80mph or 120mph getting three wraps"
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Yep, got the same spill when I talked to him earlier today. He sounded good, but I could hear some concern in his voice as well.
 
If anyone talks to him, tell him good luck and we'll be sitting on the sidelines drinking one for him.
 
same thing I heard from him yesterday evening.....told him to wrap it 4 times.....overkill is a good thing!
Hope he is doing well.....Kelly fill us in if you get any info

Brian
 
Anything new from Wyatt today or anyone else down there? We are getting dumped on here. The airport already shows 5" since midnight and they are saying it is going to rain until tomorrow.
 
yuup,, we're in a flood watch. wet as **** here. all the ponds are beyond full and the creek is full, but not out of its banks yet.
talked to wyatt for a half hour or so. he's good. if it gets bad by 10 tonight, they'll jump in th edually and run to corpus christi for the night.
 
Yeah, I got a PM from him saying things were ok for now. Thinking it might only hit as a Cat 2 so not as bad as initially thought.

The airport here is showing over 6" now since midnight. One of our guys went home at lunch and the water is up to his door step. I'm lucky enough to be on a little hill compared to my neighbors so should be fine for awhile. My damn pickup on the other hand just **** a coil from all the water. This is the 3rd one to go bad on this thing. They seem to get a crack or something and then when you get a lot of water they fry. Now to figure out which one it is and replace it. Looks like I have plans for tonight now. :flipgotcha:
 
I checked in with him during the night. About 2:30 they got some strong ****. He said there was some minor damage around his house, but trees were down everywhere.

He was off to his office when he texed me last around 8:00 am. Said the Citibank (I think) building next to his lost all the glass on the east side.
 
Wish I didnt have an LSAT to take soon... I would be down there helping some friends out, then makin some monies off the utility work! :eat:
 
yup, all phones, land lines and cell are down.
nolen, it was a JP morgan. all 17 stories lost every window on the east side :o his building right new door...not a scratch. there's your calling card when you bid a job. see what we can do!
he called on the gsm phone from his work. he got blown on his ass last night by a gust. hearing him tell about walking around in a 60 mph wind, no biggie, then a 90 mph wind hits him, blows his feet over his head, he grabs the new dually, slides down the side and ends up on his ass clinging to the new nerf bar for the next minute until it slow down enough for him to crawl to the house laughing1 laughing1 molaugh molaugh molaugh
even better hearing him say it laughing1
Dont really wish I were there. he's already cleaned up at his house. :woody:
 
WE"RE ALIVE!!!

Sorry about the few day hiatus, I not only was beat up about issues here and there (we'll talk this week). Then the hurricane happened.

We got power back at the house around 5 this afternoon. I just got home, and got the internet going.
Play by play.
WE GOT LUCKY! Thing stayed a Cat2, and stayed just far enough east. I lost a fence, satelite dish, and some guttering. We faired so well. Lost the back fence at the shop as well. So you guys know I am 62 miles NW of Galveston, and 18miles SW of Downtown.

I got out at midnight, 2, 4 and 6. Checking status of everything. It was a blowing sum bee, sheets of rain! As Kelly stated I got checked by a 90mph gust. Felt like Geraldo getting hit by that wave. Blew my feet out from under me, and I grabbed truck as I was going by it like Dorothy. Hooked a step on the running boards and held on. As soon as the gust let up I double timed it around the fence and into the house, **** THAT! I got straight up rolled!

Got everything sorted out early this morning, checked on my father in law down the road. he lost a lot of shingles off his roof but was not too bad compared to neighbors.
Seriously every other large tree is down here.

I made it into our DR (DisasterRecovery) facility Cyrus 1 around noon (they are less than a block from the shop). Cyrus 1 clocked a 98mph gust and sustained at 81mph. So I'm fortunate on the shop only losing a fence. All the guys that rode out the storm at Cyrus were pretty stressed from the night, even though it is supposed to be up for a direct CAT5 hit. All the cars in the parking lot got banged up when the Fox news sign cartwheeled/pingponged off them around 4am. Most of our guys left their cars in downtown at our building there. Around 4pm we headed downtown to go recover cars, and check our building status. The building sustained near zero damage. The JP Morgan Chase building across the street is the one you all are seeing on CNN. All east side windows from 1-75th floor are gone. Downtown looks like Baghdad. **** is straight tore up. HPD has downtown on lockdown, but we blew though a couple roadblocks and dodged the copcars by cutting though parking lots. No kidding the streets were littered with computer monitors, saw a stapler, office chairs etc. GLASS EVERYWHERE. Even saw some 1" marble building facades over 3 blocks from the building they came off of. Our office nothing, looks just like we left it Friday morning, you look out the windows and it looks like a warzone.

My cell and email is very very sketchy. Texts worked until abotu 7am. I have been on the Satphone all day today as its the only thing really working. Crazy the internet is up.


Thanks for all the good words, concern, prayers, and texts through out the past couple days, I appreciate it. Glad we dodged a huge bullet.

I did get some pics today, but none from downtown CNN has that covered.
 

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