Hi C'da: Thanks for your concern. We live in the north part of Houston - isolated from everybody else. :)
Though people were fleeing Houston, Ramgopal took the opposite route and came to Houston from Austin, (as if we are always "destined" to do the opposite to what others do ) as Nitin & I won't move from Houston. One of our biggest concerns were Caesar and Anthony - our two big dogs.
Ram's sister from India has been calling us from Tuesday night to go to our nephew's (her son) place in Dallas, before even I knew it was that serious. But he has a big dog too, so we thought unless it is an emergency :), we should keep the 3 'boy' dogs in separate houses - so we stayed back in Houston.
I guess if we have to, we will use the peanut butter, jelly and the other non-perishable food items that I had gathered for next week's collection by the volunteer center in our college for the Katrina victims.
Anyway, God heard our prayers (and I am writing this to you - about prayers?) and looks like it is going to be not as bad. We are starting to have heavier winds than normal already. But Iknow we will be okay and taking all the precautions that we can.
Utpal and Santanu, thanks so much for your invitation. We will take a rain-check :) for now and know that we have 3 choices now - 2 in Dallas (Santanu and Sanjeev in Dallas) and 1 in NJ (Utpal) to go if we still decide to leave town, and if some airlines will fly us :). Seriously, a big thank you to you both.
About boarding the windows, forget upstairs, I will be happy if Ram finishes the downstairs windows. He has his tool belt on and the tool-kit ready, but we will wait and see when he finishes. In the mean time, I have put duct tape on the glass windows.
Anyway, you get the picture of everybody now.
Thanks again for all of your concerns.
Regards,
- A.
From: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ram Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: assam@assamnet.org
Subject: Re: [Assam] Are You All OK?
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:11:20 -0500
Ram:Is Sugarland, home to so many of our Oxomiya and also desi friends, a flood prone area?Since it is not common to have window-boarding situations on Houston, are you all having a tough time with it? Most of the houses are two story there aren't they? Couldn't be easy to go board those upper story windows.Where are you Ram, are you in Sugarland? How are Rajen ( Katy), Dilip (Kingwood) etc. placed? What about Kamal's locality?Best to you all.c-daAt 9:55 AM -0500 9/23/05, Ram Sarangapani wrote:Thanks C'da for asking.So far, so good. We are all making preparations - boarding up the windows, duct taping panes, storing water, emergency supplies etc.From the local news - just heard that the eye is going to hit between Beaumont, TX and Port Arthur at 140 mph. Houston downtow to see around 100 +, North side of Houston to see 65-70 mph, Sugarland around 70+ mph.The biggest worry may be flooding come Moday or Tuesday if the hurrican stalls over any length of time (even as far as Dallas).I don't think any of the kharkhowas or markhowas have skipped town. A lot of people who left yesterday are still stuck in the freeways. Some are out of gas, or are just stuck in traffic. As a reference, there were reports that Houston to Dallas (normally around 4-5 hours) has taken 12+ hours if you are lucky. And once on the freeways (any freeeway), you can't turn back, as the freeways are now all on contra-flows to ease traffic out of Houston.More later--Ram
On 9/23/05, Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Our Houston Friends:
Are you all OK so far?
cm
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