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
Check out the beginning of this Bill Murphy story in the Chronicle: In New Orleans, Earl Kellup lived in Uptown and never had to wait too long to catch a bus. After about three weeks
Today, the Chronicle editorial board returned to a favorite topic, Hubbert Peak alarmism, with an editorial entitled “Energy crunch: It’s coming, the experts say, and much sooner than you think“: Last week two energy experts
Laurence Simon, Tom Kirkendall and Eric Berger draw our attention to Tropical Storm Rita which (gulp) could be headed to Galveston after it’s done with the Florida Keys. Often these prediction tracks are off. Let’s
In his Move It column today, Rad Sallee reports on the Envision Houston Region workshop that took place at the University of Houston over the weekend. Local anti-zoning activist Barry Klein is quoted in the