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    Hurricane Rita is set to make landfall late Friday night. I for one am FREAKING OUT. Winds are currently at 175 mph and set to grow stronger. I leave on a flight tomorrow to San Francisco. I will have my dance clothes ready to go. I have to work. Anybody on this site in SF?

    Is anyone elso on here to be affected? I know there are a lot of Texas girls on the forum and I hope everyone is alright.
    The Texas Pin-up Stripteuse!

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    me too. i was wondering about our texas (houston) girls. ya'll be safe......... please

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    I'm further in (towards the Waco area), but they are predicting some heavy rain and winds. You Houston/Corpus/Galveston ladies take care! Hopefully you are all listening to the evacuation warnings...

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    Yep, our manager tonight was bitching about how no one wanted to work in their clubs in Houston (which he's also GM of) because they wanted to GET THE HELL OUT OF TOWN. Nice priorities. I hope you've all battened down the hatches and gotten your shit to high ground, because even heavy rains flood that area badly.

    Juliette, you didn't have to go to SF; we would have welcomed you to Austin! Well, someone would have, but I am driving back to Ohio tomorrow and fear running into evacuee traffic. If anyone in Austin needs a lift to Dallas, Texarkana, Little Rock, or Memphis, let me know.

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    I'm leaving after work tomorrow, probably going to SA. I'm sick of Austin lately, no offense.

    People with a penis' do live in Houston, best wishes all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lunchbox
    People with a penis' do live in Houston, best wishes all.
    Huh???

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    Quote Originally Posted by Susan Wayward
    Huh???
    I've only slept about 10 hours this week and am in a bad mood. When I posted that it just seemed kinda rude to be just thinking about the girls, which is what prior posts seemed directed towards.

    However, I must apologize for the penile reference, I was trying to imply custies. In the process I managed to disenfranchise female custies.

    Sorry female custies. I'm ashamed for having been so hypocritical.

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    If anyone is coming to Dallas and needs any info PM me and be careful!

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    Quote Originally Posted by lunchbox
    I've only slept about 10 hours this week and am in a bad mood. When I posted that it just seemed kinda rude to be just thinking about the girls, which is what prior posts seemed directed towards.

    However, I must apologize for the penile reference, I was trying to imply custies. In the process I managed to disenfranchise female custies.

    Sorry female custies. I'm ashamed for having been so hypocritical.
    I hadn't understood the reference, either. Now that you've explained it, I do, but the indignation to me seems misplaced. Oh, well.

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    Well, I wish you all well.

    I just heard on CNN that the Houston Airport is now totally backed up because the "essential" TSA personnel did not show up for work. Obviously, we can't have anyone boarding with their nail clippers.

    How ironic that this huge Homeland Security TSA effort can now potentially cause life threatening situations greater than they can prevent.

    I also read in the paper that tons of MREs sent to us from Britian are setting in a warehouse because they contain beef or chicken from England which is banned from being imported into the U.S. ... I guess the government would rather have people starve to death.

    We are so screwed up with our government rules and incompetence that ......... I guess there is no phrase I can think of to finish the sentence.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lunchbox
    I've only slept about 10 hours this week and am in a bad mood. When I posted that it just seemed kinda rude to be just thinking about the girls, which is what prior posts seemed directed towards.

    However, I must apologize for the penile reference, I was trying to imply custies. In the process I managed to disenfranchise female custies.

    Sorry female custies. I'm ashamed for having been so hypocritical.
    Well, this IS STRIPPERWeb...

    Be safe, everyone!!

    Screw taking cover, there, though...just get the hell out!!

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    Yeah, well, it's not like we're worrying about Derek . . .

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    Yeah, well, it's not like we're worrying about Derek . . .
    OK, humor is a good thing...and that's funny.....

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    I grew up in and around Galveston and still have family there, although most have moved north to the Lake Conroe area. My brother and a cousin went down last night to stay with our mother, and I remained in Dallas, being the brave soul that I am. As of a few minutes ago, it looked like the storm would hit closer to Beaumont-Port Arthur, but no one really knows for sure where it's going to hit. I'll probably be down there next week.
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    Zep- I think now for all of us it's just a matter of watching and waiting.

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    i'm staying, i live nearish to sugarland/stafford. i hope i will only have lots of rain to deal with, since i couldn't get the windows sorted in time. at least i have enough food and water laid in. and hopefully my stuff won't get wet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by miabella
    i'm staying, i live nearish to sugarland/stafford. i hope i will only have lots of rain to deal with, since i couldn't get the windows sorted in time. at least i have enough food and water laid in. and hopefully my stuff won't get wet.
    I lived in Bellaire when Alicia hit in '83, and survived with two bottles of Cuervo Gold for margaritas. Killed one bottle during the storm and the other bottle after I surveyed the damage.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Susan Wayward
    Yeah, well, it's not like we're worrying about Derek . . .
    Wait a minute. I'M worried about Derek. If something happens to him, then someone has to replace him, and I don't want it to be ME.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lwtex52
    Wait a minute. I'M worried about Derek. If something happens to him, then someone has to replace him, and I don't want it to be ME.
    lmao..........thanks guys

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sitri
    We are so screwed up with our government rules and incompetence that ......... I guess there is no phrase I can think of to finish the sentence.
    Aja... and IMHO, the reality of our predicament is even worse than we're seemingly beginning to fear. The majority of our population has now grown-up up and lived their entire lives with our modern formulation of "government" in general, and the "Federal government" in particular... and in the process, we've become so thoroughly accustomed to the idiotic bureaucratic rules and the bumbling incompetence that we barely even notice it until something like a major castastrophe occurs and exposes its inability to perform even the most basic of functions for which it was created.

    And, as "luck" would have it, less than a month after the 'Katrina' debaucle we're now finding out via the ongoing 'Rita' clusterf*** that neither the Feds, the State, the County, the City, nor any of their various and sundry agencies ever took the time to even perform the most basic of tasks - such as putting pen to paper and calculating out what it would take to actually manage to accomplish an evacuation of the bulk of the citizens in a city the size of Houston if it should ever become necessary to do so. Consequently, when the government announced that anyone and everyone in the city that could leave, should leave, and several million of the 6 million+ people here heeded their warning, it took all of 24 hours for every single gallon of gasoline in the whole freakin' city to be burned up by the millions of cars sitting in gridlock on the freeways trying to get out! So... now we've got whole families stuck 20, 30, 50 miles from home on the side of the road out of gas; there's no gas left in the gas stations to bring them; and the government, once again a day late and a dollar short, is scrambling to find tanker trucks in Dallas/Ft. Worth, etc. to haul gas to Houston at 90 mph so it can get these people off the roadsides before the hurricane hits. Not even the GD U.S. Army could create this kind of clusterf***, and they practically invented the f****** concept!

    As for "rules," one of the most astute observations I've ever heard re the fundamentally flawed nature of our entire modern system of government came from an ex-GF who had recently immigrated... after listening to yet another explanation of why she couldn't just do "x" like she used to do in her birth country, she shook her head in exasperation and said: "Boy, ya'll have a rule for EVERYTHING, don't you?!?" Think about it... we founded this country on the underlying principle that unless you were violating one of a handful of basic rules, the government should leave you be and stay the Hell out of your life. But somewhere along the way we strayed from the premise... and we're now so far off track that her characterization is perfect: we have a freakin' rule for everything.
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    another interesting development underway in regard to the Texas evacuations ...



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    combining the two stories, it would appear that Texas was clever enough to figure out that lots of Mexicans now in Texas will head back to Mexico to escape the storm. However, they're very likely to find massively increased border security once the storm has passed and they try to return to Texas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie
    another interesting development underway in regard to the Texas evacuations ...

    http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/22/D8CPGB606.html

    plus

    http://www.kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=3880344

    combining the two stories, it would appear that Texas was clever enough to figure out that lots of Mexicans now in Texas will head back to Mexico to escape the storm. However, they're very likely to find massively increased border security once the storm has passed and they try to return to Texas.
    So, let me see if I've got this straight... what you're telling me is that after the hurricane destroys things and we suffer without water and power for a few days while the government tries to decide who's supposed to be doing what, we're going to find ourselves standing in line for contractors 'cause the government's picked such an opportune moment to finally do what it's supposed to have been doing all along... and in the process has effectively barred a significant percentage of the contractors' skilled labor pool from re-entering the country? Damn... this just keeps getting better and better with each new development, ya know?
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    probably ... but the Feds will also probably continue the waiver on having to pay 'prevailing wage' to gov't contractors which was put into effect after Katrina, which should attract 'skilled Mexican labor' from adjacent states.

    With border emergencies declared in AZ and NM already, with TX trying to declare a border emergency, with the Governator and DHS ruling to complete the border fence across the CA/Mexico border despite environmental lawsuits, and with tons of ID checking going on both as a result of the Katrina dislocations and undoubtedly from the Rita dislocations as well, it would appear that the Federal Gov't is finally getting serious about security along the Mexican border. You're absolutely correct though that this should have been resolved decades ago. However, I at least give the Feds credit for recognizing that Katrina and Rita will serve to 'deport' a whole bunch of illegal aliens - which the Feds now hope to prevent from returning once the storm is passed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie
    ... However, I at least give the Feds credit for recognizing that Katrina and Rita will serve to 'deport' a whole bunch of illegal aliens - which the Feds now hope to prevent from returning once the storm is passed.
    Yea, I know... and you're right. But, that said, we need to remember the reality of the situation down here before we get too rabid about it, i.e., Houston's gone from being a mid-sized city of 2 million people in the 70's to a being a 600 square mile megalopolis of 6 million people today that shows no sign whatsoever of any slackening-off in the rate of increase in size... and the Hispanics (more specifically, the illegals from Mexico) pretty much built it all. So much so that when false rumors re "La Migra" making the rounds at construction sites start circulating in the Hispanic community the government has to get on the Spanish radio stations and assure them otherwise - 'cause construction comes to a grinding f****** halt virtually overnight all across the city! Same thing with the kitchens in just about every restaurant in the city, the landscaping and lawn care service in every neighborhood in the city, and on and on and on!

    And last, but certainly not least, there's the sizable number of incredibly beautiful illegal Latinas working as dancers to consider... and I, for one, am in no hurry whatsoever to deport any of them!
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    My parents and bro are doing just fine in Houston. In more important news, the entire city of Austin is out of toilet paper due to the evacuees and ACL fest attendies. Egads!

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