More fun with the weatherpeople!
Only in hurricane forecasting can you be off by 150 miles (or points, as I like to call them) and still be "accurate". I think my college should take a page from that book. Hey, if I'm within 150 points of 100, I should get an A!
And not content to tell us "we're not sure where it's going to land, but you should prepare and check back to see if that high pressure system over Florida/Georgia has moved and that northern front has come down just yet," they've pulled out the storm surge stuff from Rita--at least the graphics look eerily familiar. (Let's be glad they didn't bring out the 34 foot storm surge models where we'll all be wishing we'd built arks and gathered up two of every beast and critter!) Tomorrow we'll have weatherpeople standing on the beaches with sticks in the sand and talking about how we're all going to be blown away, or get wet. (and not in a good way!)
The kids' school district has canceled classes until Monday. Given that part of the district is close to the Gulf, and lies further south toward where they're now estimating landfall, I can't blame them. However, the University of Houston has decided not to cancel classes on Thursday and take a "wait & see" approach to Friday. (Because apparently I can't even get a day off when my kids do!)
The county in which I live has called for a mandatory evacuation of all residents, starting at 8am. Granted, we're at the far northwestern part of the county (literally two miles from Harris County and Ft. Bend County). What does this mean? Well, if Ft. Bend and Harris County were being mandatorily evacuated, I'd be more worried. Our mayor hasn't called for a mandatory evacuation. (Of course, he's in his 70's, bless his heart...I don't think he gets e-mail, so maybe he doesn't know about the storm? Or maybe since Pearland is in three different counties, we don't have to follow the rules!)
Normally it wouldn't be a big deal to go to school and come home and prepare with probably less than 24 hours. But we have one of those goshawful ginormous trampolines. I think we're going to need to disassemble it if we're going to get Cat 2 or 3 winds. The upside is that since CP will have to be in the office (and thus CP's car will be in the parking garage there), I think we could store it in the other half of the garage. The downside is that if CP has to be in the office, I'm going to have to try to slay the monster with the help of two teenage-ish boys.
I haven't even been to the store--I'm afraid to go and see how decimated everything is. It was rough enough at the gas station...I'm sure they'll all be out of gas tomorrow afternoon.
And not content to tell us "we're not sure where it's going to land, but you should prepare and check back to see if that high pressure system over Florida/Georgia has moved and that northern front has come down just yet," they've pulled out the storm surge stuff from Rita--at least the graphics look eerily familiar. (Let's be glad they didn't bring out the 34 foot storm surge models where we'll all be wishing we'd built arks and gathered up two of every beast and critter!) Tomorrow we'll have weatherpeople standing on the beaches with sticks in the sand and talking about how we're all going to be blown away, or get wet. (and not in a good way!)
The kids' school district has canceled classes until Monday. Given that part of the district is close to the Gulf, and lies further south toward where they're now estimating landfall, I can't blame them. However, the University of Houston has decided not to cancel classes on Thursday and take a "wait & see" approach to Friday. (Because apparently I can't even get a day off when my kids do!)
The county in which I live has called for a mandatory evacuation of all residents, starting at 8am. Granted, we're at the far northwestern part of the county (literally two miles from Harris County and Ft. Bend County). What does this mean? Well, if Ft. Bend and Harris County were being mandatorily evacuated, I'd be more worried. Our mayor hasn't called for a mandatory evacuation. (Of course, he's in his 70's, bless his heart...I don't think he gets e-mail, so maybe he doesn't know about the storm? Or maybe since Pearland is in three different counties, we don't have to follow the rules!)
Normally it wouldn't be a big deal to go to school and come home and prepare with probably less than 24 hours. But we have one of those goshawful ginormous trampolines. I think we're going to need to disassemble it if we're going to get Cat 2 or 3 winds. The upside is that since CP will have to be in the office (and thus CP's car will be in the parking garage there), I think we could store it in the other half of the garage. The downside is that if CP has to be in the office, I'm going to have to try to slay the monster with the help of two teenage-ish boys.
I haven't even been to the store--I'm afraid to go and see how decimated everything is. It was rough enough at the gas station...I'm sure they'll all be out of gas tomorrow afternoon.