Hurricane Ike Options

[Hartmann]

Really surprised that no one has brought this up. They are telling us to expect up to two weeks without power... This is going to be a fun one to ride out.

impala, were you in the evacuation zone?

[impala454]

I updated my site again, we still had no power as of about 4PM in deer park. we had about 5 gallons of generator gas left so decided to just pack up and head here to oklahoma to visit my sister. JSC already said they're closed the rest of the week so I'll just consider this a quick little vacation. we got some roof damage, but mostly just shingles. unfortunately several of them hit my truck on the way down though and left a few minor scratches . Also had a fair amount of water come in under the window sills in one spot but not too terrible.

We just got sick of sitting around without AC and all knew our jobs wouldn't be back up until at least friday or later, so said wth and left. there were lines literally a half mile long to get gas, in HUNTSVILLE. i had enough gas to make it to fairfield, and even there i had to wait 10 mins to fill up ($3.85/gal, if anyone is curious). also just driving around some in my area yesterday and earlier this morning (sun morning) this thing really did a lot of damage, I'd venture to say 30% of all wooden fences were destroyed, along with a large number of trees & power poles snapped in half or uprooted. my neighbor across the street had a 3 foot diameter tree nail his SUV. anyways I'm mega tired, got like 5 hrs of sleep since friday night, just drove 8 hrs, and have a nice, cool, comfy bed waiting for me that I'm not going to drench with sweat after 10 mins. I'll check back with you guys tomorrow.

btw billy, where are you and what time did you get power? I drove through almost all of pasadena (west of deer park) yesterday and only saw a few in the most extreme western parts that had it. la porte (east of deer park) is still telling their residents not even to return. we also got as far north as the woodlands on our way out of town and still saw widespread people with no power, and lots of standing water on feeder roads and such. crazy.