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Floating Away
Sep. 19th, 2005 09:34 pmI was at the store today picking up food for the week and while I was in the checkout line I noticed that I was the only person in the place who did not have flats and flats of bottled water.
The run on supplies has already begun here, with just the hint that Hurricane Rita (it's like a bad alcoholic combo) will head towards the Texas coast before the weekend. Rita is supposed to strengthen while over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and come in sometime Friday morning if everything goes to forecasted models. Now we're not quite sure where it will land, anywhere from Corpus Christi to western Louisiana. Still the interesting thing is that this weekend is Austin City limits festival, so I had already planned on getting out of town, so it's interesting that I might be in the middle of an evacuation as a part of the vacation.
Galveston is already recommending evacuation. Houston floods, but not like New Orleans, where it floods, and has no where to go. Still, a storm surge of 20 feet would drown Galveston completely. They are also moving the last evacuees from the Astrodome area to other cities not only for safety, but for mental health.
What's interesting is seeing how much extra caution and preparation is happening, now after Katrina. It's certainly more safe than sorry, but I think people here are just more worried than ever after watching what the neighbors go through their disaster. I don't even know if I've ever heard this much precaution, this early.
still, I hope someone calls President Bush. He needs all the forewarning he can get.
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Last weekend I spent in Dallas, and I ended up spending $100 in gas to do that, and I didn't even drive to Temple to go to a birthday party of a friend of Chris'. I spent a lot of time in cars this weekend, as Temple is just north of Austin. There was a pool, and again the impulse to keep my shorts on as others dropped theirs. Still, I had a good time meeting people - a lot of people that aren't on LJ - go fig. Again it sometimes surprises me the gay communities that their are in small towns are pretty strong. Of course everyone knows each other, and divisions in various types of men don't seem as strong as they do in the city.
Just on the flip side was the pride parade in Dallas on Sunday. Officially it's known as the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade, and it happens in September. Everything' a little different in Dallas. Of course they don't want to be upstaged in June by the other state parades, and there's some myth that it's cooler in September, but we were sweating it out in the 90+ degree weather.
Chris and I went with John (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
furrytxcub) and his boyfriend. It was good to see John again and have a chance to talk with him for a while. He's a pretty sweet guy. The parade itself was rather unremarkable. The floats weren't that great, and one even used the same drag queen in the same outfit as she appeared on a different float a while before. I'm sorry, but drag recycling is just unacceptable.
Of course the Strangerettes were the toast of the parade.
Afterwards we went out to the rally and checked out the Sirius booth where Derek and Romaine were talking to listeners. they gave me a hat that I will be wearing at Austin City Limits. Otherwise, we didn't see too many people we knew, except for some of the guys from the Dallas Diablos rugby team.
By the time we walked back to the car, we were dog tired, since we were far down on the west side of Cedar Springs. We drove to Chris' home before going out to dinner, which was mostly paid for from gift certificates that Chris earned by working a couple of 80 hour weeks at work. Still, he'll get to enjoy some time off in Austin this weekend. Hopefully it won't be raining all that time.
The run on supplies has already begun here, with just the hint that Hurricane Rita (it's like a bad alcoholic combo) will head towards the Texas coast before the weekend. Rita is supposed to strengthen while over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and come in sometime Friday morning if everything goes to forecasted models. Now we're not quite sure where it will land, anywhere from Corpus Christi to western Louisiana. Still the interesting thing is that this weekend is Austin City limits festival, so I had already planned on getting out of town, so it's interesting that I might be in the middle of an evacuation as a part of the vacation.
Galveston is already recommending evacuation. Houston floods, but not like New Orleans, where it floods, and has no where to go. Still, a storm surge of 20 feet would drown Galveston completely. They are also moving the last evacuees from the Astrodome area to other cities not only for safety, but for mental health.
What's interesting is seeing how much extra caution and preparation is happening, now after Katrina. It's certainly more safe than sorry, but I think people here are just more worried than ever after watching what the neighbors go through their disaster. I don't even know if I've ever heard this much precaution, this early.
still, I hope someone calls President Bush. He needs all the forewarning he can get.
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Last weekend I spent in Dallas, and I ended up spending $100 in gas to do that, and I didn't even drive to Temple to go to a birthday party of a friend of Chris'. I spent a lot of time in cars this weekend, as Temple is just north of Austin. There was a pool, and again the impulse to keep my shorts on as others dropped theirs. Still, I had a good time meeting people - a lot of people that aren't on LJ - go fig. Again it sometimes surprises me the gay communities that their are in small towns are pretty strong. Of course everyone knows each other, and divisions in various types of men don't seem as strong as they do in the city.
Just on the flip side was the pride parade in Dallas on Sunday. Officially it's known as the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade, and it happens in September. Everything' a little different in Dallas. Of course they don't want to be upstaged in June by the other state parades, and there's some myth that it's cooler in September, but we were sweating it out in the 90+ degree weather.
Chris and I went with John (
furrytxcub) and his boyfriend. It was good to see John again and have a chance to talk with him for a while. He's a pretty sweet guy. The parade itself was rather unremarkable. The floats weren't that great, and one even used the same drag queen in the same outfit as she appeared on a different float a while before. I'm sorry, but drag recycling is just unacceptable.Of course the Strangerettes were the toast of the parade.
Afterwards we went out to the rally and checked out the Sirius booth where Derek and Romaine were talking to listeners. they gave me a hat that I will be wearing at Austin City Limits. Otherwise, we didn't see too many people we knew, except for some of the guys from the Dallas Diablos rugby team.
By the time we walked back to the car, we were dog tired, since we were far down on the west side of Cedar Springs. We drove to Chris' home before going out to dinner, which was mostly paid for from gift certificates that Chris earned by working a couple of 80 hour weeks at work. Still, he'll get to enjoy some time off in Austin this weekend. Hopefully it won't be raining all that time.
