I'm going to be posting a lot, while electricity lasts...

[redneckgaijin]

... just had, briefly, the first rain shower of the day.

Alone in the house now, watching weather reports and awaiting the worst.

Comments

[silussa.livejournal.com]

I know you've been here before with Rita...but still, kinda weird, isn't it?

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

I didn't ride out Rita. I had a convention that weekend and was in Dallas when Rita made landfall.

[silussa.livejournal.com]

You may wish before it was over your con this weekend didn't get cancelled, then. I've ridden out a few hurricanes....it's really not fun.

[duane-kc.livejournal.com]

Line of thunderstorms and touch-and-go tornadoes going over my house right now, so I can sympathize.

Ike and the like.

[kyllein.livejournal.com]

Look on the positive side: no storm surge. From what I've seen on television; you may get lucky, the Hurricane has changed track slightly.
If your house has a central hall; that's probably the safest place to be, since there are no windows to blow glass on you and central hallways are about the best protected (by the rest of the structure) parts of the house.
Stay safe!

Re: Ike and the like.

[silussa.livejournal.com]

The lack of a storm surge is definitely a major positive. USA Today has pictures of Galveston awash BEHIND the tidal wall, and the levees in Louisiana already have four breaches.

Re: Ike and the like.

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

The house began as a 1970s trailer home; add-ons have about doubled it in size.

The safest rooms in the place are probably my bedroom and (overloaded) workroom, but there's only one way in and out of them if something happens. I'm riding it out in the living room, which has a lot of large glass windows (that I've mostly boarded up) but isn't in the trailer section (where the glass is both thinner and less accessible from the outside).

Re: Ike and the like.

[silussa.livejournal.com]

Trailers can actually be fairly safe, IF they are secured to the ground properly.