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18 minutes ago, deadshank said:

TWC reporter in Lake Chuck just said Lake Charles is a beautiful city  

I'm not sure he’s actually in or ever been to Lake Charles.  

Lake Charles is beautiful and Hackel-berry is getting slammed.  Would LOL if this wasn’t so sad. 

32 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

On the bright side, if you had choose a spot on the gulf coast for a cat 5 hurricane to hit, this would be it. 

i dunno, i'd think the desolate stretch b/t Corpus and Harlingen would be the least destructive on the entire GC.

1 minute ago, mchookem said:

i dunno, i'd think the desolate stretch b/t Corpus and Harlingen would be the least destructive on the entire GC.

That was my thought as well.  About 60 miles of nothing but beautiful beach  between Corpus and Port Mansfield

3 minutes ago, crimsonlonghorn said:

Those of us in Houston are so goddam lucky right now. 

yup!

32 minutes ago, staboner said:

exactly. as a galvestonian who has been through some shit this is nice to see. thank god.

this motherfucker hitting dead on in Freeport would have shoved half the gulf up the ship channel and just proper butdtfucked god knows how many folks

I wonder if they've ever considered putting a dam or gate across the mouth of the ship channel, similar to what they have in the Netherlands. This monster came a little too close for comfort.

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3 minutes ago, BrickTop said:


Dude raises my anxiety level with his machine gun narration

I think he's had one too many cups of coffee and one too many lines of coke. Dude's heart is about to explode.

16 minutes ago, Nightfly said:

Jeff's back with an update.

Dude is on meth, but crazy good info.

5 minutes ago, crimsonlonghorn said:

Those of us in Houston are so goddam lucky right now. 

I stocked up on so much booze I feel I still have to drink a ton tonight. I was hoping we’d get just enough wind here in town that I might be able to take tomorrow off, but that’s not looking very likely.

1 minute ago, Pancho said:

This bridge is scary on a normal sunny day.  I can only imagine what might happen...

 

This was my first thought when Laura started setting her sights on that area.

 

1 minute ago, UTexasFight said:

This was my first thought when Laura started setting her sights on that area.

 

Me too. And I thought it was rated as a 4.something. Either way it’s a pos. 

Guessing they won’t get it repaired in time for the second weekend of September 

Recs for an alternate Austin to Baton Rouge route for the non-conference game of the year?

 

 

wait....

these fucking incessant narcolepsy commercials make me want to fucking fall asleep

26 minutes ago, tokamak said:

I wonder if they've ever considered putting a dam or gate across the mouth of the ship channel, similar to what they have in the Netherlands. This monster came a little too close for comfort.

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Yes, there were plans before 2008, but after Ike they claimed they would finally get it built.  12 years later, nope.  The Houston area governments keep allowing development in the storm surge zones.  They want the tax revenue from all the ship channel industries but won't put a sufficient levy on all the vulnerable properties to pay for the protection.  The Houston area wants the state and feds to pay for most of it, and the state wants the feds and the Houston area to pay for it.  (Actually the Golden Triangle would also be protected in the last plans I saw, so add them in, too.)

And of course the planning process takes forever, while the price tag swells.  All the rich owners of beachfront property bitched about their views being blocked.  The ones that all of us subsidize their flood insurance so they can rebuild every decade or two (years ago Congress made sure everyone would subsidize beachfront property insurance.)  So the plan went back for revision and everything drags on.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-weather/hurricanes/article/ike-dike-proposal-hurricane-laura-marco-galveston-15510840.php

By late 2019, the Corps had settled on a double dune system — a field of 12- and 14-foot-high dunes,

How well would that protect against a 15-20' storm surge...

 

However, the project’s supporters now fear that even this massive amount of sand might not be sufficient to protect the coastline from a storm surge. Some, including Merrell and Bob Mitchell, president of the Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership, have backed proposals for a hybrid dune system — essentially a sand dune with a fortified core made of a clay composite. A hard structure underpinning the dunes could reduce the cost of replenishing sand on the beaches, but environmentalists say that type of dune could contribute to habitat loss for endangered species, such as the Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle.

 

Even if the most recent version of the project is approved — backers don’t call it the “Ike Dike” because the current proposal is far more vast in scope — construction would not be complete for 10 to 15 years by the most optimistic estimates

 

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8 minutes ago, Pancho said:

This bridge is scary on a normal sunny day.  I can only imagine what might happen...

 

I hate driving over that tall and narrow rust covered thing.

I quit driving over that bridge a couple of years ago because it's so damn scary and so damn shitty. It's much more pleasant to drive over the one on the loop that goes by the casinos and doesn't really add much more time to the trip through town. 

36 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

Had a feeling this morning that Laura wasn’t stopping at a cat 3

She’s an angry bitch 

14 minutes ago, bolverk said:

I think he's had one too many cups of coffee and one too many lines of coke. Dude's heart is about to explode.

A little chaos will really allow him to shine. This bullshit with him just sitting in his tranquil car aint gonna cut it. I just smoked a bowl, I need 💯 Jeff, dammit.

22 minutes ago, crimsonlonghorn said:

Those of us in Houston are so goddam lucky right now. 


damn straight 

2 minutes ago, Blotto said:

A little chaos will really allow him to shine. This bullshit with him just sitting in his tranquil car aint gonna cut it. I just smoked a bowl, I need 💯 Jeff, dammit.

User name checks out.

Tilman Fertitta is having a bad year

6 minutes ago, crimsonlonghorn said:

I quit driving over that bridge a couple of years ago because it's so damn scary and so damn shitty. It's much more pleasant to drive over the one on the loop that goes by the casinos and doesn't really add much more time to the trip through town. 

also, darrell's. 

11 minutes ago, crimsonlonghorn said:

I quit driving over that bridge a couple of years ago because it's so damn scary and so damn shitty. It's much more pleasant to drive over the one on the loop that goes by the casinos and doesn't really add much more time to the trip through town. 

I heard from a pretty reliable source that one the major refineries in LC has strictly forbidden employees to drive over that bridge in company vehicles. 

9 minutes ago, elfenix said:

also, darrell's. 

Man praying for that place, so damn good.

5 minutes ago, Storm the Field said:

I heard from a pretty reliable source that one the major refineries in LC has strictly forbidden employees to drive over that bridge in company vehicles. 

As a kid we didn't travel much and we had to go over that thing and I was so fucking scared. Felt worse than any rollercoaster I've been on 

2 minutes ago, Bash Riprock said:

Some of these comments are funny.

"I need Jeff to narrate my morning shit."

He does't even have a script. It's all extemporaneous and never a pause and no "uh's" and "um's". 

Pretty damn impressive, to be honest, even if it's mostly empty talk while waiting for the car wash to disintegrate. 

He does't even have a script. It's all extemporaneous and never a pause and no "uh's" and "um's". 
Pretty damn impressive, to be honest, even if it's mostly empty talk while waiting for the car wash to disintegrate. 

Some people just have the “it” factor.

John King on CNN can be like this on election night when he’s on the map rattling off county’s history of voting in the middle of Nebraska
2 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

2020, the year of fuck you. 

Stay safe. Shit deal for those impacted while others steer clear with just a slight change in direction.

1 minute ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:


Some people just have the “it” factor.

John King on CNN can be like this on election night when he’s on the map rattling off county’s history of voting in the middle of Nebraska

He's definitely in that flow mode.

OK, now we're talking....the tornados are approaching, Jeff's fixin to exit the vehicle. 

13 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

As a kid we didn't travel much and we had to go over that thing and I was so fucking scared. Felt worse than any rollercoaster I've been on 

I used to have nightmares that our family's VW bus would stall out at the top and then roll back down it against traffic.

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