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Rockin’ N Rollin’
Posted by Will_TX on 9/13/2008, 3:37 am
It is gettin’ it...I am on the 6th floor in my office of St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital. Hurricane Force winds have arrived. Lucky for downtown and West Houston Metro we are just enough on the left side that we are being spared the worst of this storm. It is not over by any stretch. But... The wind is doing a number on the buildings. St. Luke’s is in the middle of several buiding that have 26 stories plus. We have a lot of construction going on right now. ninety percent of all the boom cranes arwe down in the Texas Medical Center (many major hospitals. Would like to go to sleep...I am afraid I will miss something... Anyway...will be interesting to see how much rain we get. Our bayou system and Harris County gully have no where to drain for the next few hours.
Holy (expletive deleted)! The new 5-day tracking map shows Ike’s path is heading all the way to Lake Erie! I have family in both Erie, PA and western NY State between Buffalo and Rochester, so this really blows my mind!
OK, I have to force myself to log off and sleep now. The reason I’ve been staying awake is the tornado warnings. I feel so guilty that when the big storm finally came at 5:30 am two days after Gustav, I just couldn’t get off the mattress because I was completely exhausted. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I peeped out my bedroom window, when I saw how much water had accumulated in just the 90 minutes that I had been sleeping before the sitter called to tell me her neighborhood was flooded and I couldn’t bring my daughter over. Let’s hope things stay quiet around Rapides Parish for the next few hours, though I kinda doubt it.
Night, y’all — prayers to everyone in Ike’s path!!