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[walkingshadow]

livejournal's been pretty quiet, but i'm assuming that everyone's been watching hurricane rita bear down on the gulf coast. as of 7 p.m. it had dropped in intensity from a category 5 to a category 4 storm (winds are at 145 mph, down from 175) and is expected to make landfall late tomorrow

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[walkingshadow]

heh, it is no longer just you! they've been having these little moments, and i can totally see it. i can also see house figuring it out a million years before cameron does, and possibly before chase and foreman figure it out themselves.

oh, thank you! that was, seriously, the post that ate my brain, i could have kept adding to it indefinitely. also i had to keep deleting the parts where i just went on and on about how amazingly hot john sheppard is and the way i embarrass myself whenever he comes onscreen. or shows up in fic. or crosses my mental field of vision. *cough*

[beatpropx]

I think the constant replay of the same few minutes of footage by CNN was perhaps misleading in regards to some of the highways. There are several routes of egress from Houston and there was, for a good while, a large amount of people evacuating Southwest down towards the border as well as West to San Antonio and Austin and North up to the D/FW area. A large percentage of the Southern evacuees were Mexican Nationals headed back to Mexico.

Fairly quickly, as the Southbound trafiic cleared, several roads were made Northbound only as that became the most needed and really, even with all lanes open, it still isn't enough. Just even more people trapped on the highway.

Last night? Several gas stations were completely out of gas even in Fort Worth and our downtown hotels are sold out. I'm thankful that we went to fill both cars that afternoon.

[walkingshadow]

ahh, thank you for providing inside information. i knew that *some* people had to be getting out, but what's so terrifying is all those people just trapped on the roads—not exactly the best place to wait out a major hurricane. no matter what measures officials take or what they advise, nothing is hiding the fact that it just looks like a frantic free-for-all, a badly-planned disaster waiting to happen. i hope you and yours stay very safe and dry.

[beatpropx]

Huge numbers of people have gotten out and are over-running small Texas towns all up and down the highways. Austin, San Antonio, Waco, Dallas and Fort Worth are absolutely flooded with Houstoners. State and National parks have been opened up for free camping for those that don't have the funds for somewhere to stay. It's more than just "some". But all that? Doesn't make the National news because it's not nearly sensational enough for people

[beatpropx]

I realized I should probably drop in that I do agree that some of the situations are dire for people, I'm not completely blindered, just happen to think this is, overall, much better than would be expected considering the situation. It wouldn't nearly be the problem it is if it wasn't for so many people being touchy b/c of Katrina. People are evacuating from non-flood areas in Houston, hell, there are even people quite far from Houston leaving as well, increasing the traffic and taking up lodging space.

Unique situation making this worse than need be, not exactly the type of thing that you can prepare for in any realistic way. Yes there are solutions but that means money that people don't have and aren't willing to spend anyway. Taxes, yo, double-edged sword.

[picksthemusic]

How much do I love you and your recap of House?

Because yes, I saw all of that. The pebbles? Love. The snorting? Love. And I totally saw Chase kissing her a mile away. But how great was the motorcycle test-drive? I think it's House actually trying to do something about the way he feels.

[walkingshadow]

so much love for house! and oh man, chase. what are we going to do with him? everybody's instant recoil when he confessed to kissing her was just so perfect and so hilarious. the motorcycle thing was really intriguing. i'm curious to see how they're going to play this in the long term, whether he'll keep doing little things like test-driving a motorcycle (notice he wasn't interested in actually buying one—unless he changed his mind later) and, i don't know, seizing the day, smelling the roses, whatever. of course, since it's *house*, he has the potential to let it all build toward some kind of nihilistic hedonism that wilson, et al. will disapprove of just as heartily.