Ike will be here in about 24 hours….

Yes, we are “hunkering down” aka: “sheltering in place” for hurricane IKE. The hurricane looks like it will come in near Freeport, Texas some time in the wee morning hours of Saturday morning…..We should feel the affects of the storm as early as noon tomorrow….wait a minute, that’s noon today….Where did the time go?

We are as prepared as we can be. Today I went to Home Depot to buy 13 – 50lb. bags of sand and I made sand bags for our back patio area. Water tries to come in our back door for just a bad rain storm, what’s it going to do in a hurricane? We are protected from that now. Last Tuesday night I hired some men to come cut down a big limb that was hanging over our house. The last thing we need is a hole in our roof from a limb banging on it. We purchased lots of bottled water. We have extra bread and food that you can eat when the power is out. TF made sure that all of the cars were topped off with gas. He filled up all of our little gas cans to use with his generator if the need should arise. All of the lawn furniture has been put up and there should not be anything in the yard that can blow thru a window. I have the flashlights and lanterns ready to go and our little TV is charging right now and should be ready for use when the power is out. TF has filled our ice chest up with ice and has put bottled water and Dr. Peppers in there to chill down. I hope I haven’t forgotten anything. I found this awesome website to track the storm. Check it out.

Our ham radio club has been having practice nets and we are in the process of the real thing now, no more practicing…. I hope we can be of help to others when there is no other way to communicate. This should be an interesting “trial by fire”.

This afternoon, about 4 o’clock, Jennifer called to say that she was taking Jocelyne, my three year old granddaughter, to the hospital. She had a 104 degree fever and was acting really strange. By the time she had arrived at the hospital it had gone up to 105! I dashed down there in time to hear the doctor say that she has pneumonia. My poor sweet princess was lying in the bed with an IV in her arm and a bewildered look on her face. She was very happy to see me but she was in no mood to talk. They wanted to transfer her down to Texas Children’s Hospital but because of the hurricane they decided that she would do better at home. They got her fever down and Jennifer and Jocelyne should be getting home right about now. I hope Jen is able to handle a sick child and a hurricane…. This day has been a real roller coaster……

Pray for us everyone! Keep your fingers crossed………