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Making bug out plans

Kevin — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:00:58 +0000

Some type of disaster has either arrived or is heading your way - whether its an earthquake, hurricane, food shortages due to a new disease outbreak,,,,, you and your family need to get out of the city. You have made plans to stay at a rural farm with some friends, but the problem is getting out of the city. Fuel - the very first problem your going to run into is having enough fuel to get out. Once the panic buying starts, fuel is going to be one of the first things people buy up. Everyone will be filling up their gas cans, cars, trucks, generators, 55 gallon drums,,,, and as a result, the gas stations will be cleaned out. The first people to leave the cities will help finish off the fuel supplies in rural areas. So don't think that your going to find a gas station in a small town to get fuel, its not going to happen, everyone else will beat you to it. Maps - as the major roadways become clogged with cars and trucks, your going to need to find an alternate route. When parts of southeast Texas evacuated for Hurricane Ike, people from Houston, Port Arthur, Bridge City, Lumberton, Orange,,,, sat in line for hours. On high 69/96/287 leaving Port Arthur, Texas - people were running out of gas sitting on the highway. The highway department had to send tanker trucks out to fill peoples cars and trucks up with fuel to keep the lines moving. What normally took a 1 hour drive, took 10 hours.

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Move on you have enough gas

Kevin — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:00:21 +0000

This is a real story, as it was told to me. As far as I know it based on actual events. Location – Lufkin, Texas Date – a couple of days after Hurricane Rita passed through. The story – this guy was at a gas station filling up several 55 gallon drums. Gasoline was already…

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Becoming complacent with disaster preparedness

Kevin — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:37:54 +0000

As Hurricane Rita was making its way through the Gulf of Mexico in 2005, the projected path was towards the Houston and Galveston, Texas area. An evacuation was called for parts of Harris and Galveston counties. Which is where the cities of Houston and Galveston are located. The way evacuations are "supposed" to work, the areas that are nearest the Gulf of Mexico are evacuated first. Which is Galveston, and lower Harris county. That is how its supposed to work in theory. In reality, how does one of the largest cities in the USA evacuate? They dont. There were stories of people spending 18+ hours on the highway and not even going 10 miles. There are 2 major highways going north out of Houston - HWY 59 and HWY 45. Going east and west, there is Interstate 10, 1960, old HWY 90 and 105. HWY 105 is north of the Houston area. It goes from Beaumont, through Cleveland, Conroe and finally hits HWY 6.

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FEMA camp myths

Kevin — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:11:23 +0000

It seems that ever since Hurricane Katrina there has been a of misinformation going around as to what FEMA really does. Lets just set the record straight right now – FEMA is here to help people, not throw them in some type of FEMA prison camp. The law makers in congress have setup a government…

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Hurricane Rita Review

Kevin — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:00:41 +0000

When Hurricane Rita made landfall it was the fourth-most intense Atlantic Hurricane ever recorded and the most intense tropical cyclone ever observed in the Gulf of Mexico. After Rita made landfall in southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana, the storm caused $11.3 billion in damage. The following story is my personal account of the days right…

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