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Yikes! So much for Ike...

So we waited all week, monitored the weather, and tracked the hurricane. Ike was ripping up Cuba and appeared to be on a beeline to Corpus Christi and then headed up 35 to Austin. So a couple of days ago, the powers that be in Austin put their heads together and cancelled the UT football game. We prepared for evacuees and stocked the shelves. And then Ike decided to check out Galveston and the sites and sounds of Houston. So rather than a category 1 hurricane with 60 mile per hour winds it looks like we will have about an inch of rain and some stiff breezes.

I am very thankful that we will miss the worst of the weather, and our prayers are with our family and friends in Houston. And hey, I got the yard mowed and put away everything in the backyard that wasn't tied down. That can't hurt, right? No stray projectiles here. But all in all... I would rather be tailgating with my friends and watching the horns beat up on the hogs!

Be safe Houston! The piggies from bubbaville will have to wait.

Comments

Anonymous said…
I keep hoping for at least a little bit of rain here in Round Rock!! We would take some of it from Galveston Island but don't want as much as they have!!
Nathan G Hall said…
I know who The Buds are, and I can tell you how to get to Cow-town, but bubbaville? You've stumped this Canuck :)

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