Re: Look out Mr and Ms Ladyfish
Our SIL came by yesterday afternoon and he and Mr LF worked till dark boarding up the house. My daughter's house will be boarded up today, she lives about 7 miles from us in town. My sister lives across the bay from us will also be evacuating. She will have to go to College Station according to the evacuation route and they have us going to Huntsville. Our daughter and her family have a place to go in Houston at my SIL Aun'ts house. Rod and I have no idea where we will end up. <br /><br />We are going to try and leave before the mandatory evacuation order is in place so we don't have to go to Huntsville. Once its in place, the will have all lanes of I-45 going northbound, you won't be able to exit the freeway until you get to Huntsville.<br /><br />Since we have the dog, we don't want to be a burden to anyone, so we are going to try and head west and north of the storm and find a place to camp.<br /><br />I'll spend the rest of the day getting ready, taking pictures of the house, inside and out for insurance purposes and putting all our important stuff together.<br /><br />Mr. LF and I will be traveling in two separate vehicles since we can't take the chance of leaving either one of them here. I'll trailer the boat and he'll have the dog and the rest of the stuff. It'll be difficult to stay together so I'm in hopes we don't have any trouble finding eachother one we get to a safe destination.<br /><br />Right now they have the storm going a little more westerly than yesterday, more toward Matagorda Bay. However, they were sure to state that anyone within a 250 radius of where she makes landfall will have hurricane force winds, high tides and rain in a Category 3.<br /><br />If the storm comes in anywhere to our south, it'll be the absolute worst possible scenario for us as far as our property goes. <br /><br />Wish us luck, and we'll catch you on the flip side. <br /><br />Thanks again for your concern.