Ike

[telophase]

I blame Ike for the headache I've had since yesterday (which is more probably hormonal, but the pressure changes are not going to help it; at least it's not migraine-status yet). We had a short email round about emergency procedures in case the library is forced to close early, so this weekend I get to remain alert and on-call to ... update the website to let people know we're closed if we happen to close early. Whee. (We might get high winds along with the rain, and the library has a tendency to flood in places if there's severe rain. But the library is one of the campus' designated storm shelters, so we herd kids down to the basement if there's a tornado warning.)

That and making sure my umbrella is in my car is the extent of my hurricane preparedness. And I'm making a trip to Hobby Lobby at lunchtime to get supplies for more kanzashi stuff so I don't have to do it in the rain this weekend.

But Ike is large enough that although the eye of the storm is 500 miles away, if you look to the southeast from where I am you can see a high band of clouds, the harbingers of the storm. :D


(Why do I have a desire to reread John Barnes' Mother of Storms?)

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[selenite.livejournal.com]

(Why do I have a desire to reread John Barnes' Mother of Storms?)

Um . . . you've forgotten the sado-pedo-necrophilia subplots? The meteorology was fascinating but I think that's one of two books I've thrown out for anything other major water damage.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

As a matter of fact, I *had* forgotten about those. Maybe I skipped those section to get back to the storm sections?

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Hopefully. I wish I had.

[riofriotex.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wasn't feeling so hot today but felt I needed to come in as my office has flooded in the past (not since I got here 2+ years ago, luckily) and I have some stuff on the floor that I need to get picked up and out of harm's way.

I did notice the maintenance dudes clearing debris out of drains around campus yesterday - so that should help.

At home, all I think I'll do is move most of my potted plants that out on the patios so they won't become projectiles.

[rachel-renee.livejournal.com]

We live on the northwest side of houston, and we are gonna stay here. Our area has never flooded (even when we had Allison and all the rain). The biggest concern we have is the wind and the forcast is saying that the heaviest winds will be south and east of us.

And since tropical waves begin as storms in the Sahara Desert, I've decided that I'm allergic to Africa. I have had terrible allergies for the last 2 days.

[estara.livejournal.com]

Be safe!

Re: Ike

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i have friends in galveston and corpus christi, so whenever a hurricane comes through, i check out the local coverage.

i am watching the waves inundate the seawall in galveston, cresting over the edge with every surge; it's destroyed the fishing pier already -- and the eye of storm is still 12 hours away. i've never seen it this bad; i think this will be worse than people expect.

hope you'll be safe.