Thursday, September 11, 2008

...can be traced to an easterly wave leaving western Sudan

...on August 19. As of today, this wave, now known as Hurricane Ike looks like this:

Key:
1. Small boot shaped line: The state I live in.
2. Big red mark as big as the Gulf of Mexico: Hurricane Ike (former wave)
Our weather already started today. This storm is projected to land approximately 220 miles west of us and we could have almost a 20% chance of hurricane force winds. We have a 60% chance of tropical storm winds. Towns to our south west of us have evacuated due to "life threatening inundation.” It is amazing how big these storms can be. Don't worry about us though, we should be safe and hunkered down at home.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think you guys will be okay. Even I would stay in LFT for this one. Hope you have plenty of prepared food to eat in case you lose power and can't cook for a couple of days.

Will be thinking of you this weekend! Glad you're not going to Texas!

Unknown said...

Ooops. No preparations of this sort have been made. Damn.

Anonymous said...

Hint: Don't bother buying frozen pizzas.

Unknown said...

That frozen pizza comment from pele _was_pretty funny.