Hunkering Down Waiting for Hurricane Ike

Well, it’s just after ten o’clock in the evening in East Texas and we are hunkering down, waiting for Hurricane Ike. 

Missed scrapbooking tonight and napped instead. All day we have been running errands, doing laundry, stuff you do when you think you might not have power or land phone service. 

At eight o’clock we drove up to the drug store and then swung around to buy lotto tickets. One gas station/variety store was closed; possibly they were out of gas. There are 4,000 evacuees in our area. 

The TV station is keeping us posted live and my friend has gone back to be there tonight while her family hunkers down at home. Our granddaughter was called out. Our representative, Louis Gohmert, is home from Washington. Everyone is at the ready. 

They are saying we are better prepared than we have been in the past and it looks as though we are. That, of course, depends upon how bad it gets. 

Our neighbors across seemed to have gone up to their church which would be an Evacuee Center. The folks directly across are going to sit up and wait and the folks at the corner have all their friends in for shelter and fellowship or as some call it, a Hurricane Party! 

Everyone has been calling to see if we are home and okay and our son was a little perturbed that we were not here when he called! It is always annoying when you cannot quickly locate the parents, isn’t it? 

Hopefully, we won’t have any damage, especially since I badgered Hubby to board up a side window. If you go back through my blog posts, you’ll find that we are hopefully just going to have another luxurious vacation!