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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

Tom Kirkendall posts a plea for bedding for just-opened shelters in The Woodlands: Because of the traffic associated with Hurricane Rita, our local high schools (McCullough, TWHS, College Park) have opened as shelters. They are

Hurricane preps are in full gear in the Linehan house. I am not watching too much of the news (and therefore not blogging) because it’s so overwhelming. I have decided instead to clean the house,

Councilmember Michael Berry is currently on KPRC-2 with Frank Billingsley. Berry’s advice to Houstonians (not just those under an evacuation order) is a little ominous: If you can get out, get out. KPRC’s round-the-clock coverage,

Friend Tom Kirkendall posts some excellent advice today: As all grizzled veterans of Hurricane Alicia in 1983 know (related Chronicle story is here), this is a serious situation for the Texas Gulf coast and it

I just got a call on my home phone line from a solicitor with the Texas Department of Public Safety. The fellow asked me if I was still in the Houston area, and if I