A busy 12 hours
09/12/2008 07:33 p.m.
We have placed boards across windows, taped other windows, moved furniture inside the house (away from windows), moved all of the potted plants into the garage, filled a 30 gallon garbage can with water (for toilet flushing),gathered up all of our candles, filled two ice chests, etc., in preparation for this storm (IKE). The strm surge is probably the worst that's been experienced here in my lifetime. Two houses on the coast have already been knocked off of their supports and foundations and have been swept away by the water (Please Lord, I hope the evacuated when they were told to!) A child was also killed in the coastal/bay area when a tree fell on him/her (Where were the parents, why was the child outside?!)

We got some last minute things earlier, the lines at the store were long, and they were out of some stuff (bread, ice, bananas) but they were staying open until 2 pm.

The news reports of there being plenty of gasoline...not true. There isn't gas around us and many gas stations didn't even bother opening today, and the storms haven't started here yet....

I've not worried about storms like this for a long time. I don't live in a flood prone area, I'm not in an evcuation zone, but... they have recently cleared a lot of the woods around my neighborhood, so we've lost a windbreak, and I didn't have an infant in the house.I pray I didn't make a mistake, but I really didn't see the need to evacuate and tie the traffic up even more than it was yesterday.

It's supposedly 9 1/2 hours before we'll begin feeling the storm surge where I am. Oh boy, I'm getting ready for a long night.
I am currently Tired