Hurricanes suck

by Adam J. Morris on Sep 14, 2008 12:05 PM CDT

I'm really tired of hurricanes.

My family and I are all in one piece -- including my in-laws, who chose to stay on Galveston Island rather than evacuate -- and the only permanent damage my home suffered was part of a fence falling down.

However, we have no power, so I'm hanging out at a friend's right now (one of the few folks in Houston who does have power at this point).

Anyway, thanks to z for filling in the past couple of days, and I'll hopefully resume blogging tomorrow (since my office should have power by then, even if my house doesn't).

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Nice to hear

That your family is safe.

A bunch of midgets with no arms could pitch better than us. -iorange555

by boomer1 on Sep 14, 2008 12:12 PM CDT reply actions

Good to hear everyone is safe

Baseball blogging can take a back seat for a while. The Rangers will still need pitching when things settle back to normal.

O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!
Sondern laßt uns angenehmere anstimmen,
und freudenvollere.

by t ball on Sep 14, 2008 12:13 PM CDT reply actions

they stayed on galveston island?

glad it turned out ok for everybody.

""If they'd have told me you can make the team but you've got to shine the shoes, I'd have been there shining shoes." -Bradley

by ab03 on Sep 14, 2008 12:21 PM CDT reply actions

Yeah

They own a building on the Strand that is three stories and has been around forever, so they decided to stay there instead of try to get off the island. The 9 hours it took my mother-in-law to get to Bellaire from Galveston when they evacuated for Rita traumatized her, and she decided she’d rather stay there and wait it out.

by Adam J. Morris on Sep 14, 2008 12:31 PM CDT up reply actions

In law in national news

Saw your father in law on the national news cleaning up. Where was Ben?

by CDorsey on Sep 16, 2008 9:59 AM CDT up reply actions

Ben

I have no idea, but I know he wants to steer clear of my father-in-law.

What national news did you see him on?

by Adam J. Morris on Sep 16, 2008 4:42 PM CDT up reply actions

Hey Adam, got any info on the powe situation around

League City?

Trying to find out how long my mother in law will be here

by laxtonto on Sep 14, 2008 12:33 PM CDT reply actions

For some time, I'd guess

South and east parts of Greater Houston are where there’s the most damage to the power infrastructure. They are now saying it could be a month for some areas.

by Adam J. Morris on Sep 14, 2008 12:39 PM CDT up reply actions

Well Shit

looks like my Father in law is going to go back ASAP because of his wok with the refineries. looks like im stuck with the mother in law though

by laxtonto on Sep 14, 2008 12:53 PM CDT up reply actions

Glad you made it through

That thing roared through northeast Arkansas last night at a fraction of the wind speed y’all had. Trees are down everywhere.

My sister is in Sugarland and is in the same situation as your family.

by T Coleman on Sep 14, 2008 12:40 PM CDT reply actions

My buddies parents in Sugarland

neve lost powe and only a few fence slats

by laxtonto on Sep 14, 2008 12:53 PM CDT up reply actions

YAY!

AJM & Family are safe!!!

I was worried, broseph…

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by Rodney on Sep 14, 2008 12:46 PM CDT reply actions

i agree

Hurricanes suck.

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by Longhorn on Sep 14, 2008 12:52 PM CDT reply actions

Now the real fun starts

My friend in south Louisiana still doesn’t have power back from Gustav.

Where is Mick Kelleher when we need him?

by 3744nsheffield on Sep 14, 2008 1:00 PM CDT reply actions

Glad to hear you made it through Ike safely, Adam

The center passed directly over Tyler yesterday afternoon but the worst preceded that. Widespread power outages throughout NE Texas but no significant damage.

Baseball Time in Arlington

by Joey Matschulat on Sep 14, 2008 1:07 PM CDT reply actions

Hurricanes really do suck

I’m in Denton and everyone was expecting 60 mph winds and like 6-8 inches of rain. Well it rained for like 3 hours and now it’s perfect outside and stuck inside because my games at Richland College were cancelled.

by meatbonelefty on Sep 14, 2008 1:17 PM CDT reply actions

Glad you are safe

And the damage at your place is minimal. Lots of thoughts your direction (and for all those in the Houston area), and as usual I stayed up and on line really late each night while the storm approached, made landfall, and scooted north. Just the active radar image was scary to watch, I’ve been afraid of ’canes since Carla.

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

by Ed Coffin on Sep 14, 2008 1:34 PM CDT reply actions

add my best wishes to you and yours Adam and anyone else down there.

¡yo soy Horsedooty!

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by horsedooty on Sep 14, 2008 2:30 PM CDT reply actions

Glad to hear

you and your family are okay. Best wishes to you guys and everyone down in the area.

by Fooster7 on Sep 14, 2008 2:37 PM CDT reply actions

Glad to hear your family is safe.

And, glad to have you blogging again. LSB is fortunate to have a tandem blogging system as good as Z and AJM.

Go Rangers!

by rooster on Sep 14, 2008 2:42 PM CDT reply actions

Good to hear you're safe Adam

Best wishes to everyone out there.

A Lonestar in California

We need to hire Chuck Norris to kick the ass of any Ranger fan caught booing one of our young pitchers at the RBiA.

by LSJ on Sep 14, 2008 5:07 PM CDT reply actions

I agree...

I’ve worked 65 hours in 5 days and worked the 2nd of three weekends. I worked the entire labor day weekend and now this one. I’m dog-ass tired and I freaking hate hurricanes right now.

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by ortonius on Sep 14, 2008 6:23 PM CDT reply actions

Nothin better

than reading LSB from a car, off a laptop running on an invertor, while grabbing a hotel’s unsecured wifi :) I’ll be so glad when power comes back

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by DJCahill on Sep 14, 2008 7:31 PM CDT reply actions

Nice Dan!

Cruise by any apartment complex also…

by Rodney on Sep 15, 2008 9:12 AM CDT up reply actions

whew

My house in Spring is in good shape, but I took a tree thru the garage, as well as a huge tree fell over and is covering my entire back yard. Cell phone just started working this morning, and am online at a friends a few miles away. Was very lucky to make it thru. A few feet either way from either tree would have destroyed my house. Haven’t seen any news or scores from anything since friday afternoon, so trying to catch up right now. We have no power down at the port, and our office there was tore up from the floor up.
Feeling quite lucky. Thanks for all the well wishes, and best of luck to everyone around.

Zap Brannigan... you're my hero.....

by hotshot215 on Sep 15, 2008 2:02 PM CDT reply actions