RonBurgundy68

My advice is to park in the parking lot across the street from the high school itself off of orange street and to walk from there... As a former student I still park there... Almost guaranteed a spot if you get there about an hour/30 mins before the game...

This is aries Mom. Need some help. We are planning to return home on Friday - still no power but hubby is working on hooking up generator to our house. We are in the Dallas area. Just wondering what will be the best route to take home. We came up on Hwy 69 to I-20. Not sure if that is the best way to return. Any comments will be appreciated.

I hope so, because we're still in Dallas and we aren't returning until we have power, which since we're fed from Bridge City/Sabine Pass, we most likely won't have for a while...

Us Greenway's (minus Dad who had to stay) are here in Carrollton, north of Dallas... Our house is fine... Our neighbor's shed ended up in our back yard but other than that no big deal... Hopefully ya'lls house got spared :[[

[Hidden Content] From entergy... • Hurricane Ike made landfall at Galveston, Texas, early this morning. Entergy Texas, Inc. reports 99 percent of its 395,000 customers are without power, the most in its history. • Major damage and extensive power outages have occurred to Entergy facilities in the Entergy Texas, Inc. service territory. The damage is more extensive than that caused by Hurricane Rita. Restoration for Hurricane Ike will take longer than the three weeks needed to repair the damage caused by Hurricane Rita.

In Carrollton, north of Dallas... My house is fine, I'm kind of wondering how the high school did in Vidor and how the Lamar campus did?

My dad and a few friends are still in Vidor, and they said not much is happening right now... Why aren't they getting anything Hoop?

"Hold me closer Leo!"

Can't wait for people like you from Lumberton to get a reality check...

Any predictions on how long the power will be out? I'll guess around a week and a half to two weeks...

Getting close to that time where things start deteriorating... :-[

And to think this is all before it's even here... :-[

So when they say "leave" do they mean you "have" to leave or are they pretty much saying "get the heck out of here if you want to live"?

I heard that anything south of I-10 has a chance of storm surge, the closer to the coast, the worse...

My dad has to stay behind since he's the only electrician for the Vidor ISD maintenance department, so me my mom and my brother are leaving for Dallas at 6 tomorrow morning, right before everything starts happening... Everyone stay safe!

Go to kfdm's website, hover over the weather link at the top, go down to hurricane 2008, and you'll see storm surge...

Get out of low lying areas especially near the coast!!!!! Big Storm surge expected! How far is it expected to get? Into Vidor?

Is the GFDL a reliable model? pretty much Wonderful...

Is the GFDL a reliable model?

Still no shift north on the track yet right?

Just when I said let's hope it doesn't get any closer, look what happens! :-\

Ok, sounds good... Let's just hope this thing doesn't get any closer...

Any predictions on how long the power will be out and when the schools will resume?

Hey coop, if it hit's between Freeport and Galveston, what kind of damage are we expecting (wind, rain, storm surge all added together)? Anything close to the damage Rita gave us?

packing and trying to find a hotel or someone to stay with would be a good start Grandma lives in Carrollton, north of Dallas, so we have a place to stay... Well we're not leaving till atleast noon on Friday, so hopefully it won't be as bad... But still not a pleasant trip to say the least... Good deal. It's going to be a long drive though