I Feel Like I Am In A Cave

Well, Ike will be here by tomorrow afternoon/evening and all the windows are boarded up. It's kind of depressing when you are in a pitch black house and you know there is sun on the other side of the windows! We have gotten a few calls and emails about whether or not we are evacuating. We are not in a low lying area and we are about 60-70 miles from the coast but it is expected that we will have winds in our area of 75-110 miles per hour and the eye is expected to whip straight over us. The Houston mayor has advised all those in sound structures who are not in an evacuation area or areas prone to flooding to stay put. His exact words in true Texas fashion were to "hunker down!" So that's what we are doing, and so are the majority of our neighbors. The hardest thing to figure out though is where to put our dog Mustard. He is an outside only dog and has only been inside our home once for a few minutes just after a bath and a vet visit. He chews everything he can get his mouth around so we are not sure what will be good. In the morning he is going on the front porch so he is a protected area, has access to use the facilities as needed and we have easy access to him. Maybe we can block him off in the kitchen somehow. Not sure but it should be fun. The cat is already in the garage and will stay there until Saturday afternoon. Charles actually has to go to work tomorrow but will hopefully get home really early. Then we will all be stuck in the house for at least 24 hours and not even able to look out the windows. Oh well. I am expecting to not have any electricity for possibly a week. When I get it back I will blog on the experience. It should be interesting!

My only pet peeve about the preparations is how unprepared people are. We have known it was heading to Texas for about 5 days and people were scrambling around today to buy everything they could including gas and water. Then they get upset that everything was gone. Hello people!!! Although I must confess, that I did go to the grocery store today. I discovered this morning that we only had two rolls of toilet paper in the house. I can live without electricity for a while but toilet paper?!! One can only take so much...