What a freaking tease! Ike had us in his sights for quite a while, but in the last 36 hours before landfall made a pretty significant move. It only shifted about 100 miles up the coast, but because of the way it hit and immediately moved northward instead of continuing west it left us with a windy night, but not much more. As of now (noon central time on Saturday) we haven't even seen a drop of rain. They keep telling us to expect some hellish thunderstorms to be spun off the hurricane later today but I just don't see it.
Obviously the folks a little up the coast didn't make out quite so well. Honestly I wish the thing had kept it's path down this way. It would have devastated the shrimping industry and the bulk of the fishing community on the coast, but the rest would have been ranch and ag land vs. the 4th largest city in the country. Not to mention, it's a heck of a lot easier to evacuate the 70,000 people that live in the 3 or 4 counties down this way compared to the millions up there.
Anyway, nothing can be done now! We're just waiting to hear from co-workers whose homes and workplaces were in the direct path of the storm to see what kind of help they need. We'll probably be heading up to East Texas on Monday or so to help our folks up there cut their way into their homes in the pineywoods area of Texas. They are still getting hammered pretty hard right now and the whole area still looks like pick-up sticks from the last few storms.
Anyway, thanks for the phone calls and text messages, etc. Much appreciated!!!
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Glad you are OK!!
Looks like the tables turned! How are YOU doing? For the most part it looks like the midwest saw higher winds and more rain than we did just an hour or so down the road!
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