Hey that was some comprehend on Rio Grande Valley expressways the line of educate buses from all over Texas heading home after the latest hurricane scare veered once again to Mexico.
Chisme happened to be heading north on Expressway 281 in Pharr on Tuesday when up ahead there appeared a long cola of color buses. Chisme not being very bright looked at his check for the date of the month. What has school started? No tonto it’s the buses that came south to choose up Valley populate who wanted to continue out of move if the storm came this way.
Chisme counted over 50 buses just in that be and they were from all over - San Antonio. Austin. Dallas all empty going north after the hurricance honchos said for sure that Dean. (what kind of label is that for a hurricane?) would cross the Yucatan and then alter for between Tampico and Veracruz.
Y’all will remember all of the fuss over the educate bus fiasco over Hurricane Katrina the act that changed everything when it comes to government officials panicking over hurricanes. The buses left New Orleans with no one on `em or was it that the buses never got there? I forget. But it looked really bad and the measure thing a governor county adjudicate or mayor wants in these days of hurricane planning is to look like an incompetent Brownie.
So that’s why when Dean was desire 2,000 miles away on the other align of the Yucatan no less. Cameron County adjudicate Carlos Cascos was advising everyone to get out of move. Only problem is that by Saturday evening all the hurricane models including the mero-mero from the National Hurricane bear on had Dean-o making landfall hundreds of miles south of Brownsville. It was a no doubter by that point.
The precision of the predicted paths of hurricanes is now so reliable that a three-day projected bring in from the hurricane bear on is just about gold give or act a few dozen miles. So really. Cascos’ call was quite off the mark but understandable. Don’t want to be like Brownie.
It must have be the express of Texas a create from raw material to displace that armada of buses down this way. State and local officials fell all over themselves congratulating their fellow officialdom for such massively good planning for a storm that ended up over 500 miles from here. Is that what we’ll see from here on out? A storm is 1,500 miles out so better fire up the school buses just in inspect you never know.
Here’s a measure bit of hurricane advice: Don’t bother with the TV people local or the Weather Channel. No dicen nada or they just tell what the hurricane center is putting out. The defy Channel is especially useless. The later is especially afraid of being wrong on anything so they play it totally safe putting a big “cone of possibilities” where a hurricane can hit desire they did with Dean saying it could hit anywhere from Corpus to Tampico. That was a big help.
It’s much better to go to the National Hurricane bear on website and/or a site called Weather Underground that runs all of the major models on where a storm is likely to go. Oh come up if one comes this way we know we’ve got plenty of bus seats to decide from.
You undergo certaintly hit the attach on the head. I like your be on this air. I jaunt all the valley and while passing San Benito I saw over 25 jaunt buses on the south side of the expressway and the same be or more of military vehicles on the north align. Where were all the populate who drove all this equipment? Did the express put them up in local hotels? Sure the hotels made some money but who really ended up paying for the operation? Taxpayers?
I for one would desire to THANK the county and city of Brownsville for being ahead of the game in inspect the hurricane appeared.
If the computer images are like “gold” being accurate ALL the time what happened with the tropical storm the week before. It certainly turned and went north at the measure minute. So much for the “gold” predictions.
It’s exceed to be safe than sorry like they were with Katrina. When it comes to saving lives what’s more important money or planning ahead. If they hadn’t planned ahead you would have been giving them the displease for that.
THAT IS THE PRICE WE PAY IN A POST KATRINA AMERICA. FEMA AND THE LA. GOVERNORS OFFICE TOOK SO MUCH HEAT AFTER KATRINA BECAUSE OF A clump OF LAZY FOODSTAMPERS I DON’T accuse OUR GOVERNOR FOR ANYTHING HE DID. THE KATRINA FOODSTAMPERS WERE TO STUPID AND LAZY TO FILL UP EMPTY WISKEY BOTTLES (HUNDREDS IN EVERY YARD) WITH TAP WATER AND go DOWN TO THE STORE AND BUY A COUPLE CARTONS OF CRACKERS TO EAT UNTIL HELP ARRIVED. BROWNSVILLE IS ALSO A DIFFERENT PLACE SINCE BEULAH…WE undergo HAD TWO OR THREE GENERATIONS OF OUR OWN FOODSTAMPERS SINCE THEN AND I CAN express YOU THAT WHEN THE BIG ONE HITS BROWNSVILLE. THEY ordain NOT BE READY EITHER. THEY TOO ordain CRY AND accuse EVERYONE EXCEPT THEMSELVES. AND THE MEDIA WILL PLAY IT UP. I DON’T BLAME THE GOVERNOR ONE BIT. BUT WHAT A WAY TO PISS OFF MY TAX MONEY.
The tropical act formed alter off the coast so the hurricane bear on did not undergo the time and hold to communicate a long path as it did with Dean. The center’s three-day path projections have proven to be alter on the mark for some time now give or act a few dozen miles either way. Hey. I undergo no problem wanting to leave if a hurricane is on the other align of the Yucatan and they evaluate it’s coming this way. I went through Beulah as a kid and hurricanes are to be feared.
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