Perhaps for some people that is the case but are you offering a ride to someone without a car to leave? Are you giving someone poor money for gas and hotels to leave? Are you offering jobs to those that have been threatened to be fired if they leave (often these are people in service industry jobs like bartenders,…

That is just minutes from where my brother headed out from (Navy). If you see an SUV packed with a mom, dad, five kids, two dogs, and two guinea pigs give them a wave. Stay safe.

The thought of wildfires scares the bejesus out of me. We have them here in Texas as well but not generally near where I live. At least with a hurricane there is a bit of advanced warning and it can’t be caused by humans being idiots.

Thank you!

It isn’t enough for these asshats that people have to make, or are forced into hard decisions they have to add insult injury. I hope you and yours make it through okay.

Yep, I am in East Texas right on the evacuation route and the public library where I worked for years was responsible for Shelter and Human Services in emergencies. I have set up thousands of cots in my day.

And then the internet starts going down and you can only use cash. I had the flu leading up to Rita and don’t watch network television (or cable, or satellite) and had no idea until I returned to work running on empty, and was immediately called into an emergency management meeting. By the time the meeting was over…

I worked in Shelter services for my municipality during Katrina (and Ike and Rita) - I am in East Texas near Houston. I assisted hundreds of Katrina refugees with their FEMA paperwork and organized the shelter. The people who had family that remained behind, by choice or circumstance, broke my heart.

It is very hard to drive away from your home not knowing if it will still be there when/if you return. I am East Texas very near the coast born and raised. Through Rita, Ike, and Katrina I worked for my local municipality and my department served as the Shelter and Human Services branch in our FEMA emergency plan. I…

Katrina taught some very little. I would like to read that thread if someone finds it.

Uh huh, because some people are told if they leave they will lose their job and they are poor enough that they stay because they must. Or they have no transportation. Or they have no money for fuel to leave. Or they just got leave as of today and are stuck on the highway like my brother, his wife, and their five…

I don’t listen to much new music (my playlist is a lot of classic rock, a smattering of 80's, a lot of folk, and a lot of 70s singer/songwriter) and haven’t really dug Gaga...until now. I like ‘Perfect Illusion’ but I LOVE ‘Million Reasons’. Give me more like this and I will drag myself into this decade of music.

In light of the Haim/Feldman pedophile ring stories one would think a film set might be a much less safe environment.

Especially thermoses. RIP Behind Closed Ovens.

I am bone-fucking-weary of the nonsense that is 2016. Stop this train I wanna get off.

Spiner is from Houston and a usual presence at area Comic Cons, as am I. I just saw him over the summer. Stop making me doubt my Brent Spiner, knowledge, Bennett.

Me too. I was like surely I would have known Brent Spiner was his dad.

Hold on a scr, I have to bookmark this in my emetics folder.

You are clearly not from Texas.

For some a republicans that would be the case. For conservative Christians (at least the ones I know) they would be voting Republican regardless and praying for their winner to get the Holy Ghost walking up the White House steps.