Awaiting Ike

Jared and I just finished boarding up the entire house. Boy it was way faster than doing it all myself, like I did for Rita. Wasn't going to do it but this is a really big storm. It's finally cloudy here. Been sunny most of the day. We have a light breeze and a few raindrops fell a moment ago. All pretty quiet for the time being. The waters up some in the back yard but I'm confident we'll remain dry in the house. We're as ready as we can be, gotta generator, a 110 AC window unit for after the fact, extra ice, bottled water, food, gas, can't think of much else. Kims' been busy filling up every container in sight with water for necessities later. Gonna take a shower now, go by the church to get some more ice, see how things are there, come back here, check in on the weather and then maybe a nap. Not sure I'll blog again but if you don't hear anything, its cause the phones and internet will probably be out for a few days. Pray for us, I know you will.

Take a hike Ike!
de, ke, & jre