It's 6:20pm and so far the only thing we've had to contend with is boredom :) The wind is starting to pick up with little gusts in between dead calm. It's still very warm out and considerably darker than it usually is this time of night.
We've been watching the news - all channels are broadcasting live hurricane coverage and will for the remainder of the night into tomorrow morning. Officials are saying that 40% of Galveston Island residents are still there (about 84,000 people), despite a mandatory evacuation order and at the time of broadcast, the island was about 4 feet under water. There have been many fires there caused by broken gas lines that the fire department can't get to due to flooding.
According to the meteorologists, pertaining to The Woodlands, the eye of Ike will pass over us at around 11am tomorrow morning. We have been told to expect hurricane force winds beginning around dusk today with high winds into tomorrow. Additionally we are told to expect between 6-15 inches of rain. By tomorrow evening the hurricane should be well past us and we will be left to deal with the remnants of whatever Ike brings but in the meantime we're just hanging out playing Uno (Ben and Audra are addicted!) and trying to finish a foam art piece with a zillion pieces, lol.
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