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Hurricane Ike is scheduled for landfall tomorrow night or early Saturday morning. We are boarded up, but do not plan to leave unless our area looks like it's going to take a direct hit (we're right on Galveston Bay, neah Kemah). A lot of our neighbors have decided the same thing.

During Hurricane Rita, there was mass panic, stoked by the news channels and local authorities. One and a half millions residents took to the roads under mandatory evacuations and faced horrendous conditions for 36 hours on gridlocked freeways. We waited until the last minute to leave after boarding up our house and moving everything up to the second floor (that nasty storm surge, you see). And it turned out to be a big non-event for the Houston area, as Rita turned sharply north on the day before landfall.

Not so for the Beaumont area, where Elizabeth and her family were displaced for a month due to a ton of wind damage and lack of utilities. They headed up to stay with family in Wisconsin, and and on their way again now ahead of Ike.

We have family on the west side of Houston, and will head out about 12 hours ahead of Ike if it looks like we'll take a direct hit. If Ike jogs north, like Rita did, then we'll stay put.

Needless to say...baseball practice was cancelled for tonight and Saturday. Bummer, huh?

Here are some photos of Jonathan helping his dad board up the house. It sure is convenient having two full-grown men in the house to do the heavy lfiting - now I don't have to do it. During Rita Jonathan was still a little too young to be of much help, but today he can do everything his dad can do. Very helpful!