Month: September 2005

Guess what useless D.C. politician is posing for photos at the morning press conference of our can-do hurricane-management leaders Mayor White and Judge Eckels? Yes, that would be Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. One wonders what

I’m looking out of a window facing west, and watching a beautiful sunset. The cloud cover is above, but not that far west just yet. From earlier forecasts, I expected it to be much worse

KPRC-2 has Judge Eckels on, and he’s answering questions. Some of these question that people have called in with have been amazing. Here’s one: I’m in West Houston, and just wondering when I can go

KRIV-26 just threw it down to a camera in Galveston. It’s looking pretty black down there, resembling dusk. Since it’s still pretty light up here in the Sharpstown area, it looks as if the really

KTRK-13’s Deborah Wrigley is out on Braes Bayou reporting duty at the moment. That may become interesting later, but right now there’s not much to say. The bayou is at a trickle, the clouds are

KTRK-13 meteorologist Tim Heller seems finally to be conceding that Galveston/Houston probably aren’t going to take a direct hit from Rita. While he’s been dutifully putting up the computer models (which started to move impact

KHOU-11 just showed at least several dozen people in Galveston at some bar near the seawall, hanging out, waiting for the storm to arrive. I guess if you don’t have the good sense to get

We just got a few seconds of really hard rain out in the Sharpstown area. Now it’s stopped, and things have gotten very still. We’re right on the verge of this thing getting underway in

Here’s how the Houston Zoo is keeping its residents safe: The Houston Zoo has turned itself into a type of Noah’s Ark. Animals of all sorts banded together as Houston prepares for Hurricane Rita. Picnic

HISD buses were pressed into service again, this time helping out with Hurricane Rita evacuations: HISD’s school bus drivers volunteered on Thursday, September 22, in Houston to rescue stranded evacuees from Hurricane Rita. Here are