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Hurricane Rita??

Boarded up house and shop, gas and electric off, no more internet for me guys.
Hopefully I be back next week, take care everybody and keep up the good work.
I'm out of here. :wave: :ntwrthy:
 
wifi by truck battery

We decided to stay due to the bad traffic. Just for the heck of it, I tried this... I've got a 400 watt inverter I use for charging laptop and camcorder batteries on the road. Ran a cord out to the trucks engine compartment, and into the house. Then I have the cable modem, and the wifi access point plugged in, with main computer off. It works! The power goes off here when we get high winds, so I can stay online with the laptop as long as the cable service holds out.
Also have an Hauppage WinTVUSB adapter and we can watch full screen TV of local broadcast stations on the laptop with the rabbit ears. Great for updates and warnings. Gotta love technology! :yes: Regular TV's and microwave apparently don't like the square wave this thing puts out.
 
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:banana: I'm back, everything intact, just a mess in the yard and a couple of branches down.
We were lucky here in Houston, just some heavy winds time to take the boards down and get rolling again. :)
 
Vintage TX said:
:banana: I'm back, everything intact, just a mess in the yard and a couple of branches down.
We were lucky here in Houston, just some heavy winds time to take the boards down and get rolling again. :)
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Good news! Glad to hear it! :banana:

Scott
 
Glad to hear it missed you. Also glad to see it wasn't near as devastating as it might have been. Hope the rest of the AKers in its path fared as well...
 
I too am glad to hear you're back home and everything is OK.

Rita completely missed Austin. My wife and I were getting a bit worried Wednesday night, then Rita turned north Thursday morning. We saw a few clouds and the wind was blowing about 30 mph, but we did not get even a drop of rain. What we got was heat, and lots of it. It has been over 100 degrees four consecutive days, and is supposed to break 100 today and tomorrow.

Still better than 15-20 inches of rain.
 
Sounds like a bunch of new age hooey. :lmao: I'm glad to hear everyone that has been able to check in so far is safe and sound. The roads looked awfully dissapoining if you're trying to get out of somewhere. I wonder whos going to catch hell for that?
 
Donny said:
It's a mad house here too. Gas stations filled up,walmart raided and all the banks closed and people like my brother are stuck with checks they can't cash.No money in hand. I posted ealier saying I was staying but all my family is leaving so I'm riding with them. I'm such a wimp. Good luck everyone!
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Donny's last post was 6 days ago...

From his profile it looks like he lives in Vidor Tx., one of the communities hard hit by Rita.

I hope he is safe! ...and I assume that the lack of a recent posts has more to do with other priorities on his mind right now!

Hope other AK'ers were not too significantly impacted by the storm, but it looks like Donny will have some challenges when he is able to return home!
 
I'm Back! :) Vidor was hit we have no power,I am using a borrowed pc (mine is dead) Me,my parents and 3pugs went to Mississippi (the way we was told not to!) 13hours later no hotels,my Uncle let us stay at his place. Lots of worrying! my bro and his family went north,driving a 22year old truck (I offered him my truck but he wouldn't take it) He finally called us and said he got to Marshall TX then he heard the storm was past Beaumont so he drove back into the storm!!! He was ok along with his house,him and a neighbor cleared the street using a chainsaw. Me and my parents didn't know when to head back since we only had 1 tv station that basicly forgot about Rita btw Mississippi is still recovering from Katrina (I got to blu-roof a house) With no word we headed back!
 
Our houses are fine! (mine has minor water spots by a window and on the ceiling) We had to cut trees out of my parents driveway and my driveway,our vehicles are fine. No power/water or generator for a few days (1pug almost died from the heat) but we have a generator now! My pc did not like the generator and made a bzzzzzt sound and died with a nice lil light show so I bummed this one and signed up aol due to broadband being down. Beleive it or not I got called over ebay auctions! Someone upset they did not get the toy car yet then when I got online I see they sent threatening emails. Anyway I am one of the lucky ones what abou Charlie and some of the other AKers?
 
Glad you made it OK, Donny. Rita missed us completely. Lost power for about 6 hours, but that was the worst of it here.
 
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