Comments on: Storm Update

By: Bad Court Thingy

Bad Court Thingy — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:10 +0000

Hope you’re staying safe there, Mark. The wind has picked up at my place, we should start getting rain pretty soon here.

By: Robert Guest

Robert Guest — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:55:12 +0000

A Dallas radio talk show stated that those who didn’t evacuate Galveston as ordered could be arrested. Mark, since you are my Hurricane Legal Expert what Texas law authorizes such arrest?

By: Windypundit

Windypundit — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:51:46 +0000

Yeah, I know, and the area of uncertainty is 140 miles wide at your location. But that's also the size of the zone of hurricane force winds. It looks like NOAA thinks you've got about a 50/50 chance of hurricane winds. Hey, I wasn't saying you should run for your lives, but covering up those windows sounds like a good idea to me. And if the eye does go over you, get pictures.

By: Mark Bennett

Mark Bennett — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:49:56 +0000

JR, I caved in and boarded up some of the most vulnerable windows. Windy, there's a huge margin of error. NOAA publishes predictive cones; there's about a 2/3 chance the eye of the hurricane will follow some track within those cones.

By: Windypundit

Windypundit — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:12:09 +0000

I guess you’d know better than I would, but the NOAA currently has the eye of the storm going right over you.

Good luck.

By: JR

JR — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:23:58 +0000

“We boarded up for Hurricane Rita, and still have the lumber in the attic, but I’m not planning to do so again this time around.”

Come on Mark, it’s not like you have to screw the wood to the house — just use duct tape.