Hurricane Rita: A nightmare which turned out to be a breeze!!

Source: wikipedia

There was panic everywhere in the southern region of Texas. It was predicted that Rita was going to hit Houston on Friday (Sep 23rd) night.

The whole city of Houston which is the third populoust city in the US, was asked to evacuate.

There was traffic everywhere and a lot of cars ran out of gas.
The airport was flooded with people and everyone wanted to get the hell out of Houston.

Normally it takes about 2 and half hours to get to Austin from Houston. People drove for 11 hours and still they dint get to Austin!!

Due to the mad rush of vehicles getting out of Houston, cars were moving at less than a mile an hour. It took 12 hours to travel some 40 miles.

My school which is College Station, 90 miles from Houston was closed on Friday!!! I enjoyed coz i had one extra day off. But finally what happened, there wasn't even a storm. In College Station we din't even have any strong winds. People here were so panicked and started buying stuff that Sam's Club and Wal-Mart ran out of water!!

Probably there was so much tension because it hasn't been too long since Katrina destroyed the entire city of New Orleans.

What is happening to this world? Natural disasters evrywhere!!

Interesting Facts (A little silly though!!)

• The first kind of pencil was a bunch of graphite sticks held together by string. Then someone decided it would be better to push the graphite into the inside of a hollow wooden stick. Joseph Rechendorfer was the first person to think of putting a piece of rubber onto the top of a pencil which makes it real easy to rub out mistakes.

• The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil

• The alarm clock was not invented by the Marquis de Sade, as some suspect, but rather by a man named Levi Hutchins of Concord, New Hampshire, in 1787. Perversity, though, characterized his invention from the beginning. The alarm on his clock could ring only at 4 am. Rumor has it that Hutchins was murdered by his wife at 4:05 am

• “Fan” is an abbreviation for the word “fanatic”. Toward the turn of the 19th century, various media referred to football enthusiasts first as “football fanatics”, and later as a “football fan”

• There are only four words in the English language which end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

• Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula”

Rise and rise.. Will it ever come down??

Gas prices are shooting up like crazy.
Everyday as I pass the Shell Gas Station, I make it a point to look at the gas price.
For the past 10 days or so, it hasn’t gone below $2.89/gallon for regular gasoline.

In Boston, the gas price some 2 days back was around $3.25. At this rate, people will start using their bikes (cycles) or resort to the cheapest & oldest means of transportation (by foot)

Due to the price hike in gas, even the airlines and other means of transportation have increased their rates. This is becoming a major problem bcoz not many people can afford these prices.

I hope the gas prices will come down soon. I guess the rise in prices is mainly due to the damage caused by Katrina.

Hopefully everything will get back to normal in due course of time.

Feeling Just Great!!

Things cannot get better than this... I finally got an assistantship!! Hurray :)
It feels soooo good. I have started working already. Classes have begun and my schedule is pretty hectic. I sometimes feel like I have been hit by a truck!
But I am sure that I am going to get used to all this work and bustling around.

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Indian Restaurants

There are so many of Indian eat outs at Houston and at Austin. Unfortunately there is only one at College Station and it is very bad. So none of us venture going to that place.

I guess the US is now so populated with Indians that there aren’t many states which don’t have Indian Khana places.

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Friday Nights

College Station is a university town. So Friday nights are generally chill out times. There is this place called Northgate where you have lots of pubs and clubs. This place doesn’t have discs but it is a very nice place to hang out with friends.

There is this place called Martini where on Fridays you have Salsa dancing. There are a lot of country clubs and live music. It is very different from the usual. It is pretty good.


SO FAR SO GOOD!!!