Waiting for Ike to arrive

The past couple of days we've been busy fighting the crowds of people and searching from store to store to gather all of our hurricane supplies. I think we are as ready as can be. It will be our first true hurricane. After the horrible experience with Hurricane Rita, we decided not to try plowing through the mass evacuation traffic to leave. So as Jason would say, "We're "hunkerin' down"!".

Here are the boys sitting on the front porch waiting for the storm to roll in.

Here is Hudson saying "Hi!" from Jeff's golf cart.



This is today (Friday) around 1pm. It's a typical slightly overcast hot day. No wind. Yet, Galveston, is already underwater just from the storm surge. Only a couple houses up here have actually boarded up their windows. We don't have too many big trees close to us to worry about. We have a few pines but hopefully they'll stay put!



This is around 5:30pm. We are just starting to get a few good gusts but for the most part its still pretty calm. The worst is supposed to hit us in the middle of the night. I'm not much of a night owl so Jason has the night watch. All of the neighbors are hanging out on their front porches or cruising around in their carts watching the storm blow in.

***oops! having a hard time getting this video to upload-I'll keep trying!***

It's about 9pm now and Jason just went for a cruise around the 'hood to see what's happening out there. As long as we have power I will continue to post updates and pictures. I'm pretty sure we will be out of power for a while though according to the predictions. : ( Looks like we'll be having some smelly game nights together!