Post by jimfromtexas on Sept 12, 2008 15:13:20 GMT -5
I just finished emailing Missy about my current predicament and though to myself, “Well heck, since there is nothing really going on with the Princess – oh sorry, I mean Lara – I’ll also post it here. I hope you don’t mind.
For anyone that might be interested,
With Hurricane Ike bearing down on my part of Texas I just want you to know that;
I’m OK. With the way it is tracking right now the eye of the hurricane will past about thirty miles to the east of where I am. That will put me in the hurricane itself but I will be on what is called the clean side. With Ike that means only tropical storm conditions; wind speed of only fifty to seventy miles an hour and six to ten inches of rain. It’s the dirty side of the hurricane that is going to get clobbered with hundred plus mile an hour winds and a foot storm surge of up to eighteen feet. Just so you know; the sea wall surrounding the City of Galveston – where the eye of the storm is expected to hit land – is only sixteen feet above sea level. Now those folks are in some serious trouble. Although, if the public officials have done there jobs right, there shouldn’t be any folks left in Galveston.
We spent all of morning boarding up the duplex I live in and my parent’s house. Then moved all of the plants in the yard of my Mom’s plant nursery – which is actually the other side of the duplex I live in – to sheltered locations.
I should be plenty prepared; extra food, extra water, batteries and flash light. Now I’m just hunkered down (hurricane lingo for sheltering in place) and waiting for the big blow to start - which should be in three to four hours from now. The actual eye of the storm is predicted to hit land around 2 am Saturday morning so by lunch tomorrow it should be all over except for the clean up. Which, being on the clean side, is all we should have to deal with since most of the disastrous damage occurs on the dirty side of a hurricane.
To be perfectly honest; if you are properly prepared, keep you wits about yourself and it’s not a big monster of a storm – which Ike is just average – going through a hurricane can be rather exciting… in that, I have to say, wish you were here
After I poke my head out when the storm passes I’ll get back with you and let know how things turned out in my part of Texas
BigBlowJim
For anyone that might be interested,
With Hurricane Ike bearing down on my part of Texas I just want you to know that;
I’m OK. With the way it is tracking right now the eye of the hurricane will past about thirty miles to the east of where I am. That will put me in the hurricane itself but I will be on what is called the clean side. With Ike that means only tropical storm conditions; wind speed of only fifty to seventy miles an hour and six to ten inches of rain. It’s the dirty side of the hurricane that is going to get clobbered with hundred plus mile an hour winds and a foot storm surge of up to eighteen feet. Just so you know; the sea wall surrounding the City of Galveston – where the eye of the storm is expected to hit land – is only sixteen feet above sea level. Now those folks are in some serious trouble. Although, if the public officials have done there jobs right, there shouldn’t be any folks left in Galveston.
We spent all of morning boarding up the duplex I live in and my parent’s house. Then moved all of the plants in the yard of my Mom’s plant nursery – which is actually the other side of the duplex I live in – to sheltered locations.
I should be plenty prepared; extra food, extra water, batteries and flash light. Now I’m just hunkered down (hurricane lingo for sheltering in place) and waiting for the big blow to start - which should be in three to four hours from now. The actual eye of the storm is predicted to hit land around 2 am Saturday morning so by lunch tomorrow it should be all over except for the clean up. Which, being on the clean side, is all we should have to deal with since most of the disastrous damage occurs on the dirty side of a hurricane.
To be perfectly honest; if you are properly prepared, keep you wits about yourself and it’s not a big monster of a storm – which Ike is just average – going through a hurricane can be rather exciting… in that, I have to say, wish you were here
After I poke my head out when the storm passes I’ll get back with you and let know how things turned out in my part of Texas
BigBlowJim