So we are at Karens house this morning with 2 chickens and 2 cats and a lot of bags. Mom and nick decided to run back to the house this morning to grab a few things we forgot and to move the little red car into the Boeing parking lot. The news showed the water in Galveston to already be at the top of the seawall and they are still forcasting it to hit southern Galveston which would mean Galveston bay will have a huge storm surge. It sounds like this storm still hasn't formed completly and probably won't before landfall which means the eyewall isn't formed perfectly and thus the storm won't get winds high enough to put it in a cat 3 or 4. But other then the winds it's still a very strong storm. The worst part of a hurricane is the storm surge, which only happens to the right of the eye. Thus if the storm swings north a bit, we should be fine. We still aren't expecting it to hit till tonight and it's supposed to move past us pretty fast once it hits, so hopefully Houston won't flood that badly.
Anyway, sorry no pictures this time- im posting this from my iPod :)
EDIT - Mom and Nick are back, so check out these pics they took down in Seabrook.
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O.K. Keldon. That’s the most I've learned about hurricanes in, like, forever.
I hope your dad didn’t have to endure your Cat2 evacuation to Houston with
2 chickens on his lap. That’s just too much to ask of The Colonel.
As far as the new house is concerned, I’m thinking long legs, like an AT-AT
from StarWars (w/laser cannon) or else build it around 30ft pilings with
a giant floatation ring, so’s it can just rise up like a floating dock.
Yes Keldon, thank you so much for the meteorology lesson this morning! I saw pictures of Galveston Island on CNN, flooded neighborhoods already. It sounds like you are well prepared, taking higher ground at Karen's house. Definitely keep us posted throughout the storm. Take care, I'll be thinking about ya'll :-)
Kelden,
There are no hurricanes @ CU Boulder (thank goodness). We hope to CU soon!
Love,
Uncle Marshall
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