And Life Will Go On on Monday

[omorka]

She's still choosing her landing spot. She won't be as strong on landing as had been feared. If she sucks up more of the hot dry air that's over us now, she'll soften even further. Still going to be a bumpy ride, especially if she comes in over Baytown.

We have batteries, water, and non-perishable food for a few days. Unless it strikes us directly, I think we'll be fine. And if it strikes us directly we wouldn't have been fine no matter what.

Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on.

There will be school on Monday. I have grading I need to do.

Comments

[greeneyes-rpi.livejournal.com]

Unless the power is out, I assume?

[omorka.livejournal.com]

If the grid goes down, sure. But the school is far enough west that they may well have power even if central Houston does not.

[fynarra.livejournal.com]

It's projected to hit Monday morning last time I was at NOAA...

Flooding's going to be bad, so unless people are packing school-boats...

((CNN had this java thing: HERE () (don't know if the link will work) ))

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Weather Channel, Weatherunderground.com, and all the rest of the local forecasters say she's scheduled to come ashore in the wee hours of Saturday morning.

And she's most likely coming in east of here, somewhere around Port Arthur. Not to be Polyannaish, because a tropical storm will still cause street flooding and broken windows, but it looks like we'll only be getting tropical-storm-level wind and rain, not the full hurricane force.

If the power grid doesn't collapse, I expect the storm sewer pumps to have most of the water cleared out by the end of the day Sunday. (If the grid goes down, all bets are off, of course.)