Help! Hurricane Rita Prep

[Must4ng s4lly]

OK I am in Houston and about ready to experience my third and worst hurricane ever! I have 14 fish tanks and need to keep these going. I have batteries and battery operated airators. I will be doing a huge cleaning tonight and tomorrow with no feeding.

I have a generator too. my question is this: HOW MUCH HYDROGEN PEROXIDE PER GALLON SHOULD I USE IF I HAVE TO AND IS THIS ADVISABLE FOR OXYGEN PRODUCTION???

Thank you very much for your help! Please pray for us! 200,000 people from New Orleans are here too. Pray for safely for everyone!

[Larissa]

Hi, Mustang Sally! I'm assuming you're staying and not evacuating? I'm about 60 mi. N of Houston and you should see what a madhouse our Wal-Mart was today. All of the bottled water was gone! I should think that if you have battery-powered aerators you should be fine(I don't even have those, so I'm hoping we don't lose power all the way up here, although we hear that we could). I don't know anything about the peroxide. I'd personally be scared to use it myself. Good luck and we'll be praying for you.

[cyberbeer65]

God bless both of you guys and your families.I sure hope the storm disipates before it makes landfall.As for the hydrogen peroxide question,I'm sorry i can't help with that,but i can say a prayer.

[Matak]

Hi Sally, sorry to hear about what you are going through, I will be praying for you and your fish.

Clayt101 just wrote about what he went through in New Orleans with his tanks. Here is the thread. (http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57248&highlight=orleans) Perhaps you could PM him for info on the subject.

[Swimfins]

Prayers going out your way.

[OrionGirl]

1-2 teaspoons of hydrogen peroxide can be used. Make sure to mix it in with some water AWAY from any fish (if you can net them off, add the peroxide, then remove the net and stir, it will be better. I'd use this as an absolute last resort, since hydrogen peroxide will not be friendly to anything in the tank. Stirring the tank, top to bottom with a ladle, will be better for the fish.

Oh, and if it gets bad, please, do leave. The tanks are not worth your health and safety!

[judgemax]

good luck to you two and family and friends! ...I as well know nothing about the peroxide, but i went through a week long outage with my tanks because of a winter storm, and battery powered helped alot, since you have a generater, you should fair well, just don't forget extra fuel, hopefully you wont need it, blankets to cover tanks, help with temps, and keep debri from cracking tanks, if you are sure your not gonna get water, ie , to far inland ,,,maybe set the tanks down, incase the winds get pretty bad, limbs are viscious! ..good luck to you again, and my prayers are with you!

[flyingfish]

I will definately be praying for you. My family is scattered from Galveston to CollegeStation/Bryan, Dallas and Amarillo. I think my Aunt, Uncle and cousins are leaving Galveston for Dallas.

Most of all, take care of you and your family's safety first.

[Must4ng s4lly]

Thank you very much for the suggestions and prayers! I have cleaned all 14 tanks and everyone seems fine. We have boarded up as well. Now I just gotta stake the trees. I think now we will get the cleaner side of the storm so not as bad, I guess.... I feel bad for all the people stuck out on the freeways now. Yipes! I have never been in a traffic jam like that one!

[Larissa]

I feel bad for all the people stuck out on the freeways now. Yipes! I have never been in a traffic jam like that one!
My husband had to work in Galveston yesterday. He left Galveston this morning and he's still stuck in traffic. It's really unbelievable. All of the major hiways have been changed so that everyone is going one way. Don't know if that makes sense. For example, I-10 and I-45 (both sides) are now out-going. You cannot go east or south on the roads at all. It's amazing, I've never seen such a thing before. People are running out of gas on the freeway or getting heat exhaustion from the heat (the high was 101 today). Houston is the third largest city in the U.S. (only L.A. and NYC are bigger), imagine how many people are trying to leave right now.

[Watcher74]

Good luck Sally!

FEMA expects fatalities in my city. I moved back home to Tx from Va in the belief that I wouldn't have to experience hurricanes anymore. Now we are swamped with people leaving Houston and the stores are decimated of supplies.

Time to keep our heads down and hope for the best.

:help:

[Larissa]

hey watcher, where are you at? I saw on the news a few minutes ago that the storm has shifted west again. I'm not really sure where it's going to hit land. Good luck to you and stay safe.

[flyingfish]

Take care Watcher.

Yes, the traffic is terrible. My Aunt and her DIL took 20 hours to get from Galveston to Dallas. My Uncle and cousin were still boarding things up for people so they finally left at 9am Thursday. We haven't heard back from them yet, but if they can just make it to College Station(1 hour north of Houston) they'll have a place to stay.

Did you hear about the bus that caught fire south of Dallas? Horrors, it was full of elderly on oxygen, so it exploded. Only about half the people on the bus escaped, the driver going back in many times to rescue people. The bus was from a place in Houston.

[Larissa]

It took my husband 14 hours to get from Galveston to Brenham (160) mi.

[Marala]

My thoughts and prayers are with you all. I am safe in Pa, but ww still have huge gass prices to deal with. I just heard on the news that it might get as high as $5 a gallon. I still remember when we only paid one!

[Must4ng s4lly]

Whew! We are OK, but all those people on the TX / LA border really got the bad side of the storm. Yuk! how awful!

Larissa, I hope your husband is OK. That traffic thing wwas HORRIBLE!! 45 and 59 are woefully inadequate.

Watcher, How are you??? I hope all is well???!!

[Larissa]

yes, sally, my husband made it home safe and sound. took a long time, though. we ended up not getting anything where we are except a little wind. good for us, bad for jasper and beaumont, etc. yes, watcher I hope y'all are okay. Glad y'all are okay, Sally.