Holy crap. I was scheduled to go to Houston last week on business and come back
today. Good thing our space shuttle launch was delayed. whew. I got a co-worker in
Houston who's transferring out here this week, hope he makes it out dry.
Jay W
Michael Clark wrote:
> > Hey Mike, just caught some live t.v. showing you guys are flooded BAD. Hope
> > you're ok! Please let us know how you're doing!
>
> > Later,
> > Brett
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> I'm high and dry Brett. I'm about 40 min north of Houston... just out
> of the bad area. Man one local tv station has been live for over 24
> hours now!! Coast Guard is pulling people off roofs, National Guard
> is rescuing people, the hospitals downtown are blacked out running on
> generators. One hospital had 15 to 20 feet of water on the first
> floor! Last night in the early morning hours two of the news stations
> had flooding in their studios where they were broadcasting from. One
> of the news helicopters stopped taking pictures for a while and
> transfered some bone marrow transplant from the airport to one of the
> hospitals since there was no way to get it there by car. Metro buses
> have been shut down all day, Continental has been shut down all day and
> one other airline I believe. I-10 has been a river all day, with 20
> to 30 18-wheelers totally submerged along with who knows how many
> cars. You probably saw -or will see- pictures of that. Many areas of
> Houston have had 20 something inches of rain in the last few days and
> some places have had as much as 35 inches! Here at the house we've
> only had about 6 to 8 I belive.
>
> Thanks for checking on me. The Daks all dry and tucked away in the garage and will
> be until monday probably!!
>
> I know there are some other DML members who live closer to "ground
> zero" than I do. I do hope they make it out of this safely.
> --Mike
> www.mikesdakota.com
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