Alive to tell the tale
Nothing as big as it sounds. Didn't even get to see a single drop of rain during the hurricane. College Station and A&M are a great community to be a part of. Words would always be short to appreciate the perfect hosts played by Ritesh and Mandar. We were ready to brave the hurricne hoping the situation would not come and thats what happened. The hurricane literally danced in the gulf cost for a few hours giving us the jitters and finally unleashed its fury in SW Lousiana. Houston escaped to the extent that all operations including the oil rigs in the gulf will be fully operational by the end of next week. And that also means that I have more work this week.
But this experience did have its story to tell. Never seen like before traffic, panic at the super stores, price-gouging at gas pumps. Ya thats what you call when you have gas that should be sold at $2.50 a gallon and you sell it for $3.1. I know for sure that when it is $3 at the pump, it should be $95 a barrel in the international market. But these price-gougers sold gas for $3 when it was $68 for the barrel.
I had read an email stating the "difference between New Orleans and Mumbai" a few days ago. Well here are some of the difference that we need to learn from:
- 3 million people evacuated in 48hrs (they evacuated 14K from AP)
- No death in TX due to the hurricane.
- 5 days advanced notice of the hurricane.
- Shelters in place when the evacuation occured.
- TX seemed to have a disaster management plan after the learnings from New Orleans.
Evacuating Houston, Our Sentiments on the board, Panic at the stores, Gas hungry vehicles
But this experience did have its story to tell. Never seen like before traffic, panic at the super stores, price-gouging at gas pumps. Ya thats what you call when you have gas that should be sold at $2.50 a gallon and you sell it for $3.1. I know for sure that when it is $3 at the pump, it should be $95 a barrel in the international market. But these price-gougers sold gas for $3 when it was $68 for the barrel.
I had read an email stating the "difference between New Orleans and Mumbai" a few days ago. Well here are some of the difference that we need to learn from:
- 3 million people evacuated in 48hrs (they evacuated 14K from AP)
- No death in TX due to the hurricane.
- 5 days advanced notice of the hurricane.
- Shelters in place when the evacuation occured.
- TX seemed to have a disaster management plan after the learnings from New Orleans.
Evacuating Houston, Our Sentiments on the board, Panic at the stores, Gas hungry vehicles
posted by Sachin Phadnis at 7:10 PM
1 Comments:
Great Post. I read the mail comparing Mumbai and New Orleans and was simply angry at the twisting of facts. Being a Texan and having seen the preparations made prior to Rita, I can tell that US is a million times better than USA....
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