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Counting down...

Counting down the moments until we lose power, unfortunately we don't know when that will be.

The building next to me has been out for 3 hours now. I just heard 12 houses are on fire in Galveston and they can't do anything about it. I put a glow necklace on Scout so we can find her when the power does go out. We have the AC cranked all the way down and the freezer and fridge are set the same. Bored out of our minds right now, but probably not for long.

This storm has the exact same timing as Rita did. We did lose power in Rita around 8 and the storm really started hitting at midnight and the hard stuff lasted until 5 or 6, by 8 we weren't too scared to look outside anymore, and by noon we were walking around outside. I'm not looking forward to the next 15 hours or so if they are going to be like Rita.

Text messages will hopefully last longer than phone calls, but I'm not sure we will even have those after a while.

Galveston doesn't look so hot. Seriously. Apparently as many as 40% of the residents stayed. It is under water and on fire. How many people are going to survive that?

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greyhound said…
Still pretty minimal up here in Spring. www.hurricaneikeblog.blogspot.com



Ck with me if you totally lose power. If we still have it you can just come on out.
September 12, 2008 at 9:35 PM
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