Well, we were evacuated due to Hurricane Ike that should be hitting the Galveston area pretty soon.  Dan’s parents live right on the water, the ship channel, in Baytown and we were part of the mandatory evacuation area.  We left late last night, around midnight, and headed to Dallas to stay with Dan’s cousin.

This storm is looking pretty bad.  As of right now, the eye looks like it’s going to go pretty much right over Dan’s parents’ house.  They’re calling for a storm surge of 15-20′…..and since the house sits about 12′ above the water that’s very much NOT GOOD.  We got a lot of stuff out of the house and packed it up into three trailers, two of which are stored at Dan’s dad’s work north of where they live…but now we’re getting a little concerned that the storm surge could affect those, and we’d lose pretty much everything we brought down here to Houston with us.  We only brought a couple changes of clothes with us to his cousin’s house, along with our laptops, camera gear and some toys for Anna.  We do still have a good majority of our stuff in a big storage unit in Seattle, but most of our everyday stuff is either in those trailers or still in the house.

This storm is so big that we’ve got tropical storm warnings all the way up here in Dallas and they’re saying we could still lose power way up here.  Ugh.  This is just all so stressful.  I just want it over so that we know what the damage is and can figure out what we have to do.

Anyway, if you’re the praying type…please pray.