HERE COMES HUMBERTO
Baytown prepares for flooding, storm damage

From the Houston Chronicle Tropical Weather Blog:

As Tropical Storm Humberto approaches, Baytown officials have announced that they are taking precautions such as cleaning grates over storm drains and keeping city vehicle gas tanks full.

Once the storm hits, Baytown police officers will report any problems from storm water, downed trees, fallen power lines or other situations to the Public Works Department, according to a news release the city issued at about 3:45 p.m.

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It's looking like my old stomping grounds in Baytown are going to be spared a direct hit, but I'm betting that they'll get buttloads of rain, come what may. As all Houston area residents have known since Allison back in 2001, tropical storms are nothing to fuck around with.

I've trashed Baytown a lot these last few years here at Real Art, but it is impossible to spend six years working somewhere without developing some affection for it, no matter how fucked up it is. I still have many friends there, and don't tell anybody, but from time to time I miss the old shit hole.

So my agnostic prayers go out to a god who may or may not be there, asking him, her, or it to take it easy on the old Dirty Bay.



Stay dry, guys.

UPDATE: It's a category 1 hurricane now.

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