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-Once a hurricane enters the Gulf of Mexico NOAA can only tell us that it will hit some where between Brownsville and Tampa
-Hurricane models shift north at night and revert south in the morning
-Living near a sewage treatment plant or pump station is a good thing...you get your power back first, if you lost it at all
-Corporate America is more concerned with keeping the store open as long as possible and could care less about your personal safety
-Your wife and mother-in-law will not top off their tanks unless specifically told to do so
-Hurrication- the act of making the most out of an evacuation. Hell, if you've got nothing to return to you might as well live it up
-Save all your receipts
-MRE's aren't all that bad...stay away from the short bread cookies though.
-Evac more than just 100 miles
-FEMA allocated the cell-phone bandwidth...lesson learned from Rita (cell phone service didn't get bad unitl after 5pm Saturday). Text messages are the only way to communicate
-DishNetwork works in 80mph winds, Directv craps out at 30mph
-There is no such thing as too much bottled water
-If you take a cruise out of Galveston in the Summer months let a cab drop you off at the terminal and leave your car at home (all those people on that cruise lost their cars to the surge)