Well, they flipped the switch on the Large Hadron Collider last night in France and I woke up this morning to find that the earth was not swallowed by a black hole and we are, in fact, still here. So that’s nice.
What’s not nice is a stupid old storm called Hurricane Ike. It can’t quite decide where it’d like to make landfall, and keeps inching closer and closer to me. And I just moved from a second floor apartment to the first floor. And I’m now in Evacuation Zone A instead of Zone B. And Clear Lake is now 100 feet from my apartment. (Wow. When I say it like that, it seems sort of stupid to have moved there.) So I’m just super excited about hurricanes.
The interesting thing is that Ike’s current predicted track is very much like that of Hurricane Rita three years ago. And we all evacuated for that, in part due to the recent memory of Katrina. But no one seemed to be too worried about Ike until today — and it’s supposed to be here Friday night. I think there’s a pretty decent chance I’ll find myself at Gavin’s parent’s house in Conroe again this weekend, just like three years ago.
If only the rest of Houston could remain rational. We’ll see. I’ve got class tonight, but now I’m wondering if I should skip it in favor of getting my stuff in order for a potential evacuation tomorrow morning. (Making things more complicated is that my stuff is currently split between two apartments.)
Hurricanes are stupid.
The end.
you know i hate the media and the panic that ensues…but i must admit…this time…im a bit worried myself…
thankfully i am 4 stories up…but then again this place has been here since the mid 1800’s and its still standing…and even though I am right on the bayou, Allison didnt do a thing to it as far as flooding..
hurricanes ARE stupid.
make the wise choice…get ahead of the curve.
2 of my SILs called this evening to see if we had clean sheets on the beds for their impending arrival (the ones that live down your way).
We normally have plenty of stuff on hand anyway…toilet paper, canned goods, etc. But with a minimum of 5 extra people (and maybe more than that) headed our way as early as tomorrow afternoon, we stocked up on extras this evening.
The lines at Kroger’s weren’t nearly as long as the lines at the gas stations though.
I’m coming home to the hysteria tomorrow evening. I’m fortunate that I’m 85 miles from Galveston though too.
Well, maybe we’ll do a bootleg Run The Woodlands if Luke’s decides to cancel like they did three years ago during Rita (even though they let the string go last year because it conflicted with Ten For Texas.)
Stay safe Sarah! I’m probably not too terribly far from where you’ll be. 🙂 I was here during Alicia in the 80’s and lived about 15 miles further south than I do now and we weathered the storm just fine (although we had no power for 14 days!!!), so Conroe should be far enough!