when Rita hit..its was 105 and the humidity was unbearable. No places were open for business, as in hotels because they had evacuated also due to the storm.
Until you are subjected to those conditions, you can't understand(unless you live in Doha with no A/C or clean water, in August) It would be like having to sleep and live in your car for days...with no A/C and there was a horrible traffic jam of the evacuees all the way from Galveston up to Ft Worth/Dallas that lasted over 24 hours..inching its way out of the hurricane's path. Lots of Houston and the surrounding areas lost power for days due to the subsequent storms then were subjected to a "rolling" brown outs to save electricity for emergencies.
I was one of the lucky ones...I had left just the day before, on a cruise to Cozumel...5 day one..turned into a 10 day cruise because the port of Galveston was closed (even tho the hurricane didn't hit there..was predicted to and it was a forced evacuation) and we couldn't dock anywhere else. Reminded me of that old show Gilligan's Island..where they left on a 3 day cruise and got stranded forever...
when Rita hit..its was 105 and the humidity was unbearable. No places were open for business, as in hotels because they had evacuated also due to the storm.
Until you are subjected to those conditions, you can't understand(unless you live in Doha with no A/C or clean water, in August) It would be like having to sleep and live in your car for days...with no A/C and there was a horrible traffic jam of the evacuees all the way from Galveston up to Ft Worth/Dallas that lasted over 24 hours..inching its way out of the hurricane's path. Lots of Houston and the surrounding areas lost power for days due to the subsequent storms then were subjected to a "rolling" brown outs to save electricity for emergencies.
I was one of the lucky ones...I had left just the day before, on a cruise to Cozumel...5 day one..turned into a 10 day cruise because the port of Galveston was closed (even tho the hurricane didn't hit there..was predicted to and it was a forced evacuation) and we couldn't dock anywhere else. Reminded me of that old show Gilligan's Island..where they left on a 3 day cruise and got stranded forever...