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 Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 9/21/2005 at 11:00:51 AM ET
I didn't want this to get lost:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/95221.html
| Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 9/22/2005 at 12:01:53 PM ET
This concert will be televised, MSNBC will broadcast the concert at 7 PM ET, Oct. 1:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/95261.html
|  Christine-NYC
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| posted: 9/22/2005 at 3:23:05 PM ET
I like the new icon Jean. 
<3CMH<3
|  moljul
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| posted: 9/22/2005 at 3:33:16 PM ET
Christine, I think you win the award for the funniest icon. Love the added text.  
Though Jean's is pretty great too.
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
|  Sister Rose
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This is related - looks like there's a real mess going on in Texas concerning the evacuees. I hope our friend Jenn is okay along with others. Some of my friends are stuck in traffic. Most of my family lives further west so they should be okay.
| Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 9/22/2005 at 5:00:24 PM ET
Yes, SR, I've seen bits and pieces of the traffic mess on tv all day, and I was certainly thinking of Jenn and her family.
Glad to hear your family is safe. I can't believe they are just letting this massive traffic tie-up happen--is there no other way to go?
=Christine--thanks, I like avatars for myself where she is slightly "off"; but yours gets the prize for sheer funny and clever. Moljul already knows I love her avatar.
| Sister Rose
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There's no telling what's happening on the backroads - what you're seeing on the main interstate highways is all there is - I-10 to San Antonio and I-45 to Dallas - w/ over million people trying to leave, even carpooling, its just not enough room - nobody opened the southbound lanes either. I heard that there aren't hotel rooms either - by the time they all arrive somewhere, it could all be over. San Antonio is about 3 hours west and that's when you're driving about 75 miles/hr w/ no traffic. I heard of one person who is a nurse at a nursing home near Beaumont - the nurses and staff got everything and everybody ready to go in buses, but then they had to wait around for the "corporate okay" because the administrator was afraid of lawsuits. Just imagine how horrible it all is for all of those people who are already evacuated from Louisiana to Houston! Its just horrible.
|  mrbig
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| posted: 9/22/2005 at 7:25:27 PM ET
All I can say is that Dallas is C-R-A-Z-Y right now. I just waited in line 45 minutes to put gas in my car. All the gas stations are OUT of gas. I went to ten before I finally found one---and they only had Super Unleaded. My friends who work in the hospitals are saying that they are becoming quite crowded with transplanting people from Houston and Galveston hospitals. Traffic to Dallas is insane. The 4 1/2 commute is now taking 10+ hours. I heard that they will be closing the southbound lanes of I45 to allow northbound track to take over those lanes. I work for a local school district and they have already cancelled ALL weekend events and activities---and we are in DALLAS! I can't even imagine what it is like south of here. I am off to watch more of this on the news.
mrbig
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| Christine-NYC
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| posted: 9/23/2005 at 12:52:13 PM ET
It's scary to see these massive evacuations. It's like something from a movie. 
I have family in Houston. I'm sure they've probably left by now, but I don't know.
Thanks for the Avatar love. I get these ideas in my head when I see certain pictures and I say, "Oh! That would be a funny icon." So I get people to make them for me.
<3CMH<3
| jmslsu01
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northern VA | posted: 9/23/2005 at 11:48:24 PM ET
I'm okay, guys. I was going to Dallas, but turned around and went to my parents' home in Louisiana. I did not want to get stranded on I-45. It's really windy right now and I am amazed we still have power (pretty much all of Galveston and Houston is already out).
The hurricane has shifted and is expected to be closer to the TX/LA border (landfall between Beaumont, TX and Port, Arthur, TX-which, incidentally, is the country's largest area of oil production/refineries). A further illustration of the unpredicatability of hurricanes-48 hours ago, Galveston and southern parts of Harris County were preparing for the worst. It really wasn't *necessary* that I evacuate, but I was not looking forward to being without power. Of course, I will probably be without power here soon, but at least I'm with my family.
Places that already flooded-and were getting dry-in the St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes are flooding again. So recovery in those places is back to square one. Finding the dead has also been called off because it's just too risky (the death toll alone in the New Orleans area is around 800, and the total for the entire Gulf Coast region is already over 1,000. They are not finished finding people, because parts are still under water.).
We found out that my uncle's uncle (my uncle is a relative by marriage) was found dead in his St. Bernard home. He had refused to leave. I didn't know him, but it does bring the situation closer and the numbers more real.
We are fine where we are. This house only had minor damage during Katrina.
Better go before the power goes out! I hear some heavy things banging around someone's yard (maybe next door). I'm near a window and want to move.
Jenn
| moljul
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| posted: 9/27/2005 at 12:30:30 PM ET
I can't seem to find this on the MSNBC schedule for this Saturday. Does anyone know any more about it? I'll be out of town and want to record it.
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
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