Any contigency plans for the annual... or is it like a no-hitter and it's bad luck to say anything?

Tina Turner not scheduled to play in Galveston is she? I know, I know bad joke....

A.P., bandleader of A.P. and the Lesser Includeds, has said that the band will play "Come hell or high water".

That's good enough for me.

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Things don't look good!

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Originally posted by AgProsecutor:
Any contigency plans for the annual...?

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Prayer.

We will update the front page of the website as events develop.

That's right, Greg.
If the Annual gets rained out next week, everybody just come up to the house. I'll tie the dogs up and unlatch the screen door. Walk-ins welcome.
Exit only, at 2854 & I-45.

I wish I could add to everyone's optimism, but I am too busy calling my homeowners/flood/windstorm insurance people!

Because we are getting inundated with calls about this, I will add the following:

Ike is scheduled to make landfall several days before the Annual. If it hits Galveston (or near it), the status of the conference will be based upon the situation at that time -- we will not speculate beforehand.

Basically, unless the bridge is down or the island has been evacuated, the show will go on. We will not jeopardize the safety of our staff or attendees, but we also cannot cancel a 1,000-person conference just because a hurricane is in the gulf. Hurricanes are always in the gulf in September.

Of course, I suppose we could avoid such threats by just holding all future Annual Updates in the Panhandle ...

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Originally posted by Shannon Edmonds:
but we also cannot cancel a 1,000-person conference just because a hurricane is in the gulf. Hurricanes are _always_ in the gulf in September.

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Yeah, it's not like it's something serious like Tom Brady going out for the season with a knee injury.

I recall the speaker gift at the last conference that was interrupted by a hurricane was a TDCAA Umbrella. Perhaps the speaker gift for this year�s conference could be a TDCAA weather radio or a barometer?

Georgetown is a wonderful vacation spot. We can put you up in the Holiday Inn Express (or at least some of you), buy you dinner at The Monument Cafe and take you swimming at Blue Hole (if they have fixed it since the last flood).

So, what does your jurisdiction have to offer that would be right for the Annual?

Y'all could come up to Gilmer for the Yamboree and dine at Doc's Hot Links.

Banjo player.

Like the weather in the Gulf, this thread has suddenly taken an ugly turn.

Hey, Shannon, in regard to hurricanes in the gulf, we have never had a hurricane in Wichita Falls if you're looking for a safe haven.

Ed Lane

And come up to Vernon. We have a brand new Holiday Inn Express and some of the best dove hunting in the great State of Texas!

Our restaurant selections include mexican, tex-mex, mex-tex, and hamburgers.

Wichita Falls has an actual falls, although it is not a natural falls, having been built to match the city's name. More importantly, for tourists, though, is the opportunity to view the world's smallest skyscraper.

In year 2008 hurricane named for famous warrior and general of armies comes ashore near villages at mouth of Great River separating peoples known as Texicans from peoples known as protectorates of the Sun God.

It is so written.

(That's Brownsville, for the unenlightened.)

Amarillo, Texas: Home to almost 200,000 friendly folk and probably twice as many head of cattle in the greater metropolitan area (including Hereford); no hurricanes -- not even any tornadoes (this time of year); very near a really big hole in the ground (the second largest in these here United States); just a few miles from where the majority of our country's outdated newcyeluhr arsenal is disassembled (and a good chunk of it is assembled); near a large lake with well over a sixth of its water still remaining; the Cadillac Ranch and the Big Texan (you know a bunch of you wanna try to knock down the 72 oz. steak dinner in less than an hour in order to get it au gratis); home of the ULB (independent minor league baseball) champeeen Amarillo Dillas; an actual 31-story building (though I can't speak to its occupancy); dozens of hotel rooms and Stanley Marsh 3. Saaaa-lute!

I've always admired the Cadillac Ranch and took my kids by there on a trip to Palo Duro Canyon. So Texas to have a bunch of cars with their noses in the ground in the middle of a corn field.

And, Amarillo is home to the world's only elected County Attorney who knows all the words to "Jenny 867-5309" and can scream them on key, while playing bar chords with one broken string in the dark on a borrowed guitar during a heat wave amid the scrutiny of two girl singers and a few old guys on lesser instruments.