Hurricane Ike Update #2

I've seen some places near me that have boarded up. That makes me a little worried. The forcasts are for possibly 96mph wind where we are at. Our place doesn't have any southern exposed windows, but the windows to my bedroom and the doors to the other room face the east, which is probably the second most vulnerable. At this point, its probably too late to think about boarding up. I've got a closet that I might put my TV in to keep it safer.

It seems people are taking this seriously. The grocery store parking lot was completely full and there were quite a few people out driving around. Most people must be off work, and a lot are buying supplies.

The evacuation is going well, but the roads are starting to back up. I get why they want to stagger the evacuations, but it doesn't seem like they did a very good job. The toll roads are free, and too many people are excited to use them. The south beltway is getting backed up even though 610 looks good. The picture below must be old because I-45 over the bridge from Galveston is stop and go, and they said it would take better than 2 hours to get from Galveston to downtown (usually an hour or better drive).

Ike Traffic 2PM Thur

Preparations:

Doing laundry - hey got to have clean undies

Cleaned bathroom - something that had to be done

Clean dishes

Grocery Store - (water, beer, canned goods)

Start filling cooler with ice

Vacuum room

Clean out pantry - (smells like something died)

Lift weights

Find somewhere with drink specials for tonight

The "preparations" I've listed look a little goofy, but if I were to watch the hurricane coverage for another 48 hours until the storm passed, I'd go crazy. The weathermen would fly away if they flapped their arms any harder. And there's only so many times you can hear that mobile homes will be destroyed.