Ike

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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Note to self- soonwarren.com

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Well, after getting annoyed that for some reason my anti-hotlinking script wasn't working on a Youtube profile that was hotlinking the ubiquitous Renji pic, I revamped my .htaccess file and now it automagically blocks anyone unless the URL is on an allowed list (which includes LJ, DA, and several other journaling sites).

So you may now revel in the gloriousness that is Kenpachi-chan on the Youtube profile.

Ike report

Of the Houston folks I know and have info on,and who a few people here might know: tprjones is having rain (he's got a webcam up and is giving reports via phone on his LJ if you're interested) and power flickers. myrialux, on the west side (near the Loop and I-10), is just having wind, and the Taskers, farther southeast, are without power. None of them live in mandatory evacuation zones (the zones most likely to flood).

ETA: Hurrican tracker. I'm up in Fort Worth, and the predicted hurricane track right now is veering to the east and avoiding Dallas/Fort Worth, so probably lots of rain but not huge storms for me.