Ike's a Coming

We're in the more or less direct path of Hurricane Ike, though several hundred miles inland. By the time it gets here we should see sustained winds of 40 - 60 MPH, from the north I expect, and 1 to 4 inches of rain in a 24 hours - a "good Texas thunderstorm" :). That's IF Ike passes to the east of us, which is apparently the weaker side, but there's no telling until it's closer. Most of them have so far.

Plus, it's massive. On the Weather Underground site, Dr. Jeff Masters argues that calling it a Category 1 or 2 hurricane is underselling it's potential for damage - most especially because of the storm surge, which is supposed to be GREATER than Katrina. He predicts the largest and longest power outage in Texas history, though he thinks Dallas will be on the fringes and not suffer major outages. (He's in Ann Arbor.) I highly recommend you read the posting.

If anyone's interested, I've got my weather station up and running, and it posts local data to http://www.deuby.com/weather/usa.htm every 5 minutes.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go mow the back yard and put some construction adhesive under shingles on a section of the roof where they keep blowing off...

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