well then. we are getting some lovely little effects from tropical storm, i mean, hurricane claudette, which is making its way towards landfall a little ways down the coast from houston. it’s raining and it’s really freaking windy. yup, that’s what a hurricane will do. i don’t think we have hurricane strength winds outside yet, but it’s blowing hard enough to wake me up at 4 a.m. and again at 6:30. and the bayou is filling up; i think the water level back there is higher than i’ve ever seen it before. luckily, it’ll have to rise at least 10 feet more to pose a threat. which probably won’t happen.
(10:00 a.m.)
well, i think it’s actually less nasty outside now than it was when the wind kept waking me up last night/this morning. i drove to work and there were some branches down and lots of leafy plant debris, but other than the fact that the rain sometimes appeared to be coming in sideways, things calmed down a bit. i dunno if the wind will pick back up again or not. the eye is supposed to come ashore a hundred miles or so down the coast, between here and corpus christi.
wind and rain, wind and rain. that’s all it is, wind and rain.
i am sleepy. storms don’t do much for my ability to sleep soundly at night. though it did make for some excitement, sitting on my couch watching the wind whip up little whitecaps in the bayou. i’m glad it shifted north, and avoided drenching katie in reynosa.
