Planning for Ike!

Greetings from the Gulf Coast! Just a word to let you know that unless Ike really ramps up to say a Cat 4 we'll be staying at home and riding it out. We've got plywood and are ready to use some of it! I boarded the entire house for Rita and learned all the new windows we put in when we bought the house are guaranteed hurricane proof. So, we may board up a few but not many. My neighbor had a couple of guys boarding her house up till after midnight last night. We have a least one couple who are already planning to stay at the church building so, if it gets really rough and the house doesn't seem like a good place, we'll bug out to our church building which has withstood every big storm since 1954. (Secretly we hope it gets blown down and we could build a new building with the insurance money) We bought a generator and gas for Gustav along with the other necessary items which we didn't use, so we're ready to stay and prepared to be without power for a few days. My cameras are charging in case we want to take pictures or video. Our home phone is internet based so it could be out. Cell phones will be charged. Pray for a hit somewhere other than metro Houston while you're down there praying.

Here's a cool website one friend sent me. It's called stormpulse.com

Here's a video for your enjoyment, while you're waiting for Ike. The sound is not very good but it is the Eagles.

Here's to Ike,
de & ke