Galveston doing it right!

[beenthru6]

Was just watching CNN, and they were showing buses being loaded up with special needs residents in wheelchairs and getting them out of there. They said more buses would be arriving to take more residents out later today. I was very relieved to see this, and am praying that everyone who needs help in evacuating gets on one of these buses. I realize that New Orleans was a much, much larger city to evac, and Galveston is much less populated, but I am so glad to see this action being taken early.

[njoynit]

If I heard right...they said are MANDATORY evacs for EVERY RESIDENT on island.NO ONE would be staying behind.I either had fox& friends or CNN.I flip every half hour.

[djtil]

definitely...even though it appears galveston will escape the worse.....the island is just to susceptible to chance even the remote scenario of a major shift of track

[Big-Iguana]

Might not have any power too, best to get out me thinks.

Officials at the South Texas Project nuclear plant in Bay City, Texas, are preparing to shut the facility down before Rita arrives, a spokesman said.

The plant, which powers 1 million customers, is built on elevated ground 12 miles inland from the Texas coast to withstand storm surges from Category 5 hurricanes. In addition, the two reactor containment buildings are made of 4-foot-thick steel-reinforced concrete walls -- strong enough to withstand a Category 5 storm or a direct impact of a Boeing 767.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/ ... index.html

Also that plant was leaking a couple years ago -click here.

[EDR1222]

Good to see people are heeding the warnings. Ordering the evacs early like this also enables it to be much less chaotic.