So here we are in Denver while a hurricane bears down on Houston. I should have thought to bag and box up important papers and take really important papers to Chris for the duration of my trip, but i didn’t.
We have neighbors, of course, who are taking care of the place, but if something catastrophic happens, it is so much better for the home owner to be there. So Luke went. He flew out early this morning, Friday. He said the plane was full. I tried to find a flight yesterday but they were all out of reasonably priced tickets. Why are all these people going to Houston??? Do they all live there or have elderly relatives to care for?
Last night as we were packing and arranging for someone to pick him up at the airport, we learned that our neighbor sent his son and another teenager over to put the wood up on the windows. That was fine, but then we learned that they gave our leftover clips to a neighbor who had not been able to buy any because the store was out. We should not have had any left over clips! Perhaps it is a good thing Luke will be there in time to go over things.
As i sit here, watching the weather channel, i wish i was there too, but i know Luke is glad to have me away.
Pat called yesterday morning. He said the tide is several feet high and the waves in the panhandle of Florida were 13 feet high, higher then they have ever been, and were tearing up bridges. Amazing when the storm is closing in on Texas for it to be doing so much damage all along the gulf coast. Fortunately it has not strengthened like they said it might.
Preparing for the worst and hoping for the best…. I would like for my trees and roof and shed and carpet to survive. Perhaps i should be worried about my husband, but he is so competent it is hard to think of him as being in danger. At least we are not right on the coast. According to the weather channel, the coast is already under water.
Bad RRS reader for not telling me there was a new post!
Ike wasn’t a super strong storm, it was just *big*. I heard the number ‘40%’ cloud coverage of the Gulf of Mexico from Ike at one point. Not suprised it was pushing up water everywhere.
Since this was the ‘peak’ of the season, I’m hoping we only have two or three more storms (incl tropical storms in that).
Maybe we’ll actually get some rain out of one of the next ones up here in Austin. (really, we didn’t get anything from Ike. )
Fortunately for us Ike kept moving east. For a while it looked like it was going to hit us. Had it been 50 miles, or even 30 miles west, we would probably have been damaged. As it is, we lost all the loose twigs and leaves out of our trees, and one branch that broke but did not fall; it had to be cut. Some in town had power outages and roof and fence damage.
The coast and a path inland got hit pretty bad. For those areas, the only good thing is that the storm moved thru quickly.
Hard to believe you didn’t even get rain out of it.