Reminder: Houston ain’t New Orleans
by David Benzion · 09/11/2008 4:37 pmIn case folks in other parts of the country are getting any ideas, LoneStarTimes.com offers this gentle reminder of what they can expect to find across Houston in the aftermath of a hurricane (picture taken in ‘05 after Rita).
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Instead of drinking, they should fix that leaning power line pole.
This looks suspiciously like a typical LST editorial meeting.
These must be Texas Democrats. None of them are clinging to Bibles.
Gee, none of those looked like paintball guns!
– Ken
No wait! Don’t shoot! Please, just taze me Bro!
I can not stress this enough. If you are having brown out, unplug or turn off EVERYTHING with a compressor. Air conditioning, freezers, refrigerators.
During brown outs, the thermostat on that device will continue to read the temperature setting. It will make that compressor try and work harder to meet that setting, and the compressor will overheat and catch fire. Several homes were destroyed after Rita that way. Please warn all your neighbors too. They may not know, and there may be no water or firemen to fight your neighbor’s home which is on fire and a danger to you and your other neighbors. After Rita I walked my entire neighborhood warning them.
#7 Big
Excellent advice !
What’s a brown out?
I’ll be in Louisiana when this hits, but I’ll probably be back in Houston soon enough…
AW, a brown out is when you don’t lose all your power. Your lights go dim. Very dangerous.
WOW - that almost convinces me to move to TX!
Fortunately, Oregon still allows concealed carry - and I’m waiting on mine! About 1 week to go!
Ya Hoo! The right to protect one’s family and one’s self!
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#9 AW
If your power starts to diminish, your lights dim or the power begins to go on and off, unplug your refrigerator, freezer and turn off your air conditioner. If it doesn’t overheat the compressors in those appliances, it could burn them out.
Also, for those folks who have new LCD HD TVs, unplug those units during brownouts and esecially if the power is going on and off. They need to cool down before they are restarted just like a computer.
BigIron #7;
Although I would turn off the A/C during a brown out, I would never have thought to do it for those reasons. Thanks for sharing.
To balance my previous cocky comment, let me say God bless those who protect others. Remember all the reports of looting in New Orleans? I kept telling people the solution was easy. It all starts with shooting looters on sight.
Darren, just have to be careful you don’t shoot a store owner removing his own merchadise. It’s a safe bet though that the owner is not going to attempt to push the piano through the floodwater, or remove the television with a shopping cart.
And I my dad had not been a mechanical contractor, I would not have had a clue about the fire hazard compressors represented during brownouts. Just like I had no clue about the information Texpat conveyed in #12 regarding the new TVs.
Big45 and Texpat, thanks so much. I did not know this, and will absolutely do that. Whew. great advice!
Q: What’s the difference between Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney?
A: When Sarah shoots it, it stays down.
Palin is for gun control. She hits what she aims at.
Love Pamela Anderson coming out against Palin. What a joke
a$$ vs class
Yup, shooting the store owner would suck. Don’t know why he’d try to do such a thing during mass looting but my vision is actually working with law enforcement to maintain control during the rise of chaos. But then again the New Orleans police did seem to run away during Katrina.
nz-texas;
Pamela Anderson is against Palin? What a shock. If she wasn;t too bust dating a rich Arab man, she should go out with Matt Damon.
BTW, are Palin’s interviews airing beginning tomorrow?
Darren, that’s not entirely true about the NOPD. Some of them were looting stores too.
Good example was the Korean store owners during the Rodney King riots. They unleashed massive firepower in their areas. Stores were not looted or burned.
Actually this is the first meeting of the Joe Horn Fan Club.
ROFLMAO. Pamela Anderson on Sarah Palin:
Did she actually say that? I can’t even comment without getting HAL to take notice!
Big45;
Shoot them first.
She did indeed say that. With her eyes rolling, of course. She even told the reporter to qote her on that remark.
Baywatchbabe gone wild. Any wonder who she’ll vote for? If she votes at all.
#27 Darren
If we still had literacy tests for voters, Pamela Anderson wouldn’t qualify to vote.
I’m still holding out hope that they re-evacuate the Katrina evacuees back to New Orleans, and then NO can pay their hotel bills for the next two or three years, when they get evacuated on our dime to somewhere else. I’ve already got the “Sorry, Katrinites, there’s No Vacancy, this time” signs made up for the post-Ike evacuation.
Maybe they can go to Washington, DC, then?