No one’s going to answer,” Port Arthur Mayor Thurman Bartie told reporters. HOUSTON - As Hurricane Laura churned toward his city, the mayor of Port Arthur, Texas, urged residents to evacuate while they still can. We don’t know if we are going to go back to anything or not.” We don’t know if we are going to go back to anything or not. and said they had been waiting in line for four hours. Ronnie Boyd, 28, was in a car with his sister Ashlee Love, 31 and her 12-year-old son. I’m hoping we can get a gas voucher so we can have some transportation,” said Warnell, who said he earns money doing odd jobs and his wife is disabled. They arrived Tuesday night and went to a hotel, but waited in their car in the line while temperatures hit the mid 90s. Gerald Warnell, 59, and his wife Helen, 56, from Orange, Texas, followed buses that were transporting evacuees out of the Gulf Coast to San Antonio. Greg Abbott had said that the large number of evacuees could signifying that people are taking the hurricane warnings seriously. In a news conference Wednesday in Austin, Texas Gov. Tuesday, but Arrington said because “we got way more people than we expected overnight” people were given a one-night stay in a hotel room Tuesday night and told to return Wednesday for what will likely be five- to seven-night stays.Īrrington explained people go through the welcome center for accountability purposes so if someone is looking for a loved one after the storm there is a good record. The help center had been open since 3 p.m. Suzanne Gamboa / NBC Newsīecause of the pandemic, the state had contracted for hotel rooms rather than set up large shelters. Richard Thomas, 30, of Beaumont, with Maya Matthews, age 1, waited in a line of cars in San Antonio to get assigned hotel rooms where he and his family will wait out Hurricane Laura, on Aug. He said he had stayed in Beaumont during Hurricane Harvey in 2017 due to work, but recently became unemployed because of the coronavirus, he said. "I just wanted to get my family safe," Thomas said. Wednesday, 2,103 had come to the help center to get hotel accommodations assigned to them. San Antonio had expected 300 evacuees Tuesday night but 1,400 arrived by the end of the night, said Joe Arrington, San Antonio Fire Department spokesman. He and six others were in his car including three children and a pregnant woman. He came with several family members packed in two cars whom he had gathered to get away from the storm. “We’re praying we don’t run out of gas,” said Richard Thomas, 30, who said he had been waiting in line more than three hours. The long line in San Antonino, Texas to get in a parking area to get hotel vouchers on Aug. Under the hot sun, people who said they were waiting between two to four hours tried staying cool in their car air conditioning. WeatherTracker monitors the PAR light available and records it as moles/day.SAN ANTONIO - A long line of cars stretched through a large parking area and spilled down the street as Hurricane Laura evacuees lined up to get hotel vouchers Wednesday afternoon. The arrow keys allow you to scroll through the sensor readings, Degree Day/Chill Hour calculations, as well as set your temperature ranges. The station also calculates Chill Hours, which is the total amount of hours during which temperatures have been below a specified low temperature. For example, one counter can be activated at planting while another can track the development of insects. The internal electronics calculate Growing Degree Days (GDD) for up to three degree day counters. One-button review of 30 days of values and 12 months of summaries LCD display (updates every 20 seconds) with easy-to-use keypad 9V battery with 8-month life memory protection in case of power loss. Three user-activated degree-day memories and one chill hour memory. Greenhouse Light WeatherTracker calculates Growing Degree Days The 305 is a comprehensive tool to assess physiological maturity of your plants. The WeatherTracker 305 includes a quantum light to measure your plants' light exposure over time (in moles/day). Also tracks degree days and chill hour data. Measure your plants' most important inputs: light exposure and temperature.