Yeah, I know you already guessed it!
"WE GOT POWER"
When I came home from work yesterday we surprisingly had power 10 days after "IKE! Shocker! I couldn't believe it! Finally! I feel sorry for the people who are still without power! The cool front has moved on and it's heating up here!
Can I just say....
"I'm wore out"
Last night after work Mr. "S" and I took a truck and trailer load of stuff up to the lake house! Which consisted of a king size bed, a couch, love seat, some framed art, bathroom stuff and kitchen stuff! Let me just say we haven't put a dent in our packing!
Tonight we are staying at the apartment to pack, pack, pack!
September 23, 2008
September 22, 2008
Still ~ NO POWER! =( UGH!
I don't get it? Everyone around us has power? Why don't we have power? This is soooooooooo not cool!
A weekend recap! The lake house coming along! We have the floors almost completely installed and it looks GREAT! We love it!
We stayed the night at the house last night so this morning was our VERY first drive into work! It wasn't to bad! At least not as bad as I thought it would be! I had anxiety all night long and couldn't sleep! I kept waking up thinking we over slept! Thank goodness we didn't! Mr. "S" dropped me off at the apartment this morning so I could pick up my vehicle. I still had an hour before I had to be at work so I went in and started packing in the dark! I have about half the kitchen packed! Woo-Who! Go me! Yeah, okay...whatever!
We are going to haul some things up to the lake house tonight! There is no point and staying at the apartment if we don't have power! So you know what this means? We still have a TON of stuff to pack and it HAS to be PACKED by SATURDAY! We are stressing! Our life is so in shambles right now! Moving and trying to finish remodeling a house is ENOUGH...wouldn't you think? Well, we have to add "NO POWER" to that equation! Let's just make a stressful situation even more stressful!
I'm still using my bosses "turtle slow" wireless card so I can't post pictures! I still want to show yall my "IKE" pictures and I wanted to show yall the hardwood floor pictures! Dang it!
Well, I want yall all to know we are surviving and things are slowly getting back to normal! Sorry I can't visit your blogs! I hope yall understand! I promise I will be back once I get Internet and power! Bare with me! I can't wait to watch some tv and surf the net! It's the little things in life!!! HA!
(((HUGS)))
A weekend recap! The lake house coming along! We have the floors almost completely installed and it looks GREAT! We love it!
We stayed the night at the house last night so this morning was our VERY first drive into work! It wasn't to bad! At least not as bad as I thought it would be! I had anxiety all night long and couldn't sleep! I kept waking up thinking we over slept! Thank goodness we didn't! Mr. "S" dropped me off at the apartment this morning so I could pick up my vehicle. I still had an hour before I had to be at work so I went in and started packing in the dark! I have about half the kitchen packed! Woo-Who! Go me! Yeah, okay...whatever!
We are going to haul some things up to the lake house tonight! There is no point and staying at the apartment if we don't have power! So you know what this means? We still have a TON of stuff to pack and it HAS to be PACKED by SATURDAY! We are stressing! Our life is so in shambles right now! Moving and trying to finish remodeling a house is ENOUGH...wouldn't you think? Well, we have to add "NO POWER" to that equation! Let's just make a stressful situation even more stressful!
I'm still using my bosses "turtle slow" wireless card so I can't post pictures! I still want to show yall my "IKE" pictures and I wanted to show yall the hardwood floor pictures! Dang it!
Well, I want yall all to know we are surviving and things are slowly getting back to normal! Sorry I can't visit your blogs! I hope yall understand! I promise I will be back once I get Internet and power! Bare with me! I can't wait to watch some tv and surf the net! It's the little things in life!!! HA!
(((HUGS)))
September 18, 2008
After "IKE"
I'm using a wireless card and it's very very s-l-o-w! I just wanted to give all my wonderful loyal readers an update!
We are okay! We made it through "Ike"! I think the aftermath is worse than "Ike" itself! I will say that "Ike" packed a punch with some strong winds but it could have been so much worse!
We went to the lake house on Sunday ~ it's fine! Mr. "S" dad wasn't as lucky! He had a tree that hit his boat, garage, his work trailer and back fence.
My dad's house suffered some damage! He lives in a mobile home on 15 acres. The room that “use” to be my bedroom was damaged! A tree that was outside my room was up-rooter and it picked up the corner of the house, tore back the siding and bent the beam that runs under the house. It's pretty major! You can see through the floor and the roof of my old closet! YIKES! Dad put a big tarp up to cover the holes! I'm hoping dad will just "build" a new house ~ he so deserves it!
My mom is okay and her house suffered no damage! She is very lucky! Her subdivision looks like a war zone! We actually had to drive on the wrong side of the road to get to her house!
As far as a power update....We just heard there is power at our lake house! HOLY MOLY ~ We are so EXCITED to hear that!
Our apartment still does not have power! UGH! Another cold shower tonight! The radio said we could get power by Monday! Fingers Crossed!
Mom doesn't have power!
Dad does not have power BUT he is running two generators! One generator is hooked up to the washer and drier and the other is hooked up to his house running lights, fans, refrigerator and two deep freezers! So he is good to go! We have been eating good! Cleaning out his freezers! lol =)
Today is Mr. "S" and my first day back to work! We have been going out to dads each day to help him clean up the trees and limbs! I think as of yesterday we had seven HUGE burn piles! I'm sore, beat up with scratches and bruises! It makes me feel good to know we can give back to dad and help him ~ he has done sooooooooooooooooooooo much to help us with our lake house!
Friday night after work we will be heading up to the lake house to install the flooring! We have to get it installed by this weekend! We are moving in next weekend!!!
I'm sorry I couldn't stop by and visit your blogs =( this wireless connection is just so so so so so very slow!!!! I'm hoping to be back up and running by next week!!!
Thanks again for all your thoughts and prayers!!! I miss yall!!!
We are okay! We made it through "Ike"! I think the aftermath is worse than "Ike" itself! I will say that "Ike" packed a punch with some strong winds but it could have been so much worse!
We went to the lake house on Sunday ~ it's fine! Mr. "S" dad wasn't as lucky! He had a tree that hit his boat, garage, his work trailer and back fence.
My dad's house suffered some damage! He lives in a mobile home on 15 acres. The room that “use” to be my bedroom was damaged! A tree that was outside my room was up-rooter and it picked up the corner of the house, tore back the siding and bent the beam that runs under the house. It's pretty major! You can see through the floor and the roof of my old closet! YIKES! Dad put a big tarp up to cover the holes! I'm hoping dad will just "build" a new house ~ he so deserves it!
My mom is okay and her house suffered no damage! She is very lucky! Her subdivision looks like a war zone! We actually had to drive on the wrong side of the road to get to her house!
As far as a power update....We just heard there is power at our lake house! HOLY MOLY ~ We are so EXCITED to hear that!
Our apartment still does not have power! UGH! Another cold shower tonight! The radio said we could get power by Monday! Fingers Crossed!
Mom doesn't have power!
Dad does not have power BUT he is running two generators! One generator is hooked up to the washer and drier and the other is hooked up to his house running lights, fans, refrigerator and two deep freezers! So he is good to go! We have been eating good! Cleaning out his freezers! lol =)
Today is Mr. "S" and my first day back to work! We have been going out to dads each day to help him clean up the trees and limbs! I think as of yesterday we had seven HUGE burn piles! I'm sore, beat up with scratches and bruises! It makes me feel good to know we can give back to dad and help him ~ he has done sooooooooooooooooooooo much to help us with our lake house!
Friday night after work we will be heading up to the lake house to install the flooring! We have to get it installed by this weekend! We are moving in next weekend!!!
I'm sorry I couldn't stop by and visit your blogs =( this wireless connection is just so so so so so very slow!!!! I'm hoping to be back up and running by next week!!!
Thanks again for all your thoughts and prayers!!! I miss yall!!!
September 12, 2008
Pictures From Our Apartment Patio
This pictures have been taking the last past hour from our apartment patio!
Pictures of the trees by our apartment! Lots of them...huh?
The sun it getting ready to set
The clouds are doing CRAZY things!
The sky is pretty for now!
See the clouds coming in! These are the outer feeder bans!
We are still okay! We did lose power around 4:30pm for about 30 minutes but it came back up! I don't know how long it will last!
I will keep intouch as long as I can!
(((HUGS)))
Ike - Due in tonight!
I don't even know what to post about at this point! Ike is coming and he will be here late tonight or early tomorrow morning! UGH!
I've received a few emails asking if I was at work today...."HECK NO!" We got off work at noon yesterday!
Mayor Bill White held a news conference yesterday this was a topic he touched on:
Emergency management officials are asking that all employers dismiss non-essential employees from reporting to work on Thursday and Friday. However, certain essential businesses, including banks, gasoline stations, pharmacies, hardware stores and grocery stores should remain open as long as prudently possible to help Houstonians prepare for the hurricane's potential arrival. Officials are asking all schools to close on Thursday and Friday.
I found a website that had some web cams! Here is a pic of Galveston! This is where we go to load the ferry! Remember me showing you the pics from June our trip to Galveston click HERE!!!!!
This just FREAKS me out!
This is a web cam picture from Moody Gardens! This is already flooding too!
If you want more info on the storm! You can actually watch a live stream with our local news at Click 2 News!
Galveston Seawall! I've never seen anything like this! Look at the waves crashing over! The storm is still 12 + hours away!
September 11, 2008
Being told to "HUNKER" down
Info I found on the Weather Channel website:
Texas prepares for a gigantic Hurricane Ike
By MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press WriterThursday, September 11, 2008
HOUSTON -- Cars and trucks streamed inland and chemical companies buttoned up their plants Thursday as a gigantic Hurricane Ike took aim at the heart of the U.S. refining industry and threatened to send a wall of water crashing toward Houston.
Nearly 1 million people along the Texas coast were ordered to evacuate ahead of the storm, which was expected to strike late Friday or early Saturday. But in a calculated risk aimed at avoiding total gridlock, authorities told most people in the nation's fourth-largest city to just hunker down.
Ike was steering almost directly for Galveston and, beyond that, Houston, where gleaming skyscrapers, the nation's biggest refinery and NASA's Johnson Space Center lie in areas vulnerable to wind and floodwaters. Forecasters said the storm was likely to come ashore as a Category 3, with winds up to 130 mph.
But the storm was so big, it could inflict a punishing blow even in those areas that do not get a direct hit. Forecasters warned that because of Ike's size and the state's shallow coastal waters, it could produce a surge, or wall of water, 20 feet high, and waves of perhaps 50 feet. It could also dump 10 inches or more of rain.
"It's a big storm," Texas Gov. Rick Perry said. "I cannot overemphasize the danger that is facing us. It's going to do some substantial damage. It's going to knock out power. It's going to cause massive flooding."
Most of the evacuations were limited to sections of Harris County outside Houston, as well as nearby bayous and Galveston Bay. But the 2 million residents of the city itself and 1 million in other areas of the county were asked to remain at home.
"We are still saying: Please shelter in place, or to use the Texas expression, hunker down," said Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, the county's chief administrator. "For the vast majority of people who live in our area, stay where you are. The winds will blow and they'll howl and we'll get a lot of rain, but if you lose power and need to leave, you can do that later."
So that is that! We are staying put as told by our government officials! I hope they know what they are talking about! I hope we will all be okay after "HUNKERING" down?!?! I'm sure yall are ready for Ike to come and go so I will stop doing blog post about him! Sorry! I just want to document this bad boy! Bare with me!
Mr. "S" mom called to check in! She is really worried about us! They just don't deal with storms like this in Ohio! She said if we don't call or if we don't answer our phones on Saturday she is sending the National Guard to come knock on our doors! =)
I've got my camera charging! I will try and take pics (in hope they turn out)!
In other world news today (as if there is anything else going on out there other than Ike) is a day I will never forget ~ 9/11! One of my blog buds La Vie De Laurie did a short little post talking about 9/11 ~ Never Forget 9/11! I left here this comment:
"I’m like you! I will NEVER forget! I will never forget what I saw on TV, heard on the radio or looked at on the computer! All the sad emails and videos…over and over and over again! I will always remember where I was that day and what I was doing! It was nothing special…I wouldn’t have remembered that day for any other reason!!!!! I was at work, it was a normal day! Then I get a phone call from a co-worker telling me to turn on the radio! She goes on to tell me what she is watching on TV. I was in total shock! I think I just sat there in disbelief! This couldn’t be real! This couldn't be happening in the USA! Our home, Our Country!"
I hope this is something that our government can prevent from every happening again!
Texas prepares for a gigantic Hurricane Ike
By MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press WriterThursday, September 11, 2008
HOUSTON -- Cars and trucks streamed inland and chemical companies buttoned up their plants Thursday as a gigantic Hurricane Ike took aim at the heart of the U.S. refining industry and threatened to send a wall of water crashing toward Houston.
Nearly 1 million people along the Texas coast were ordered to evacuate ahead of the storm, which was expected to strike late Friday or early Saturday. But in a calculated risk aimed at avoiding total gridlock, authorities told most people in the nation's fourth-largest city to just hunker down.
Ike was steering almost directly for Galveston and, beyond that, Houston, where gleaming skyscrapers, the nation's biggest refinery and NASA's Johnson Space Center lie in areas vulnerable to wind and floodwaters. Forecasters said the storm was likely to come ashore as a Category 3, with winds up to 130 mph.
But the storm was so big, it could inflict a punishing blow even in those areas that do not get a direct hit. Forecasters warned that because of Ike's size and the state's shallow coastal waters, it could produce a surge, or wall of water, 20 feet high, and waves of perhaps 50 feet. It could also dump 10 inches or more of rain.
"It's a big storm," Texas Gov. Rick Perry said. "I cannot overemphasize the danger that is facing us. It's going to do some substantial damage. It's going to knock out power. It's going to cause massive flooding."
Most of the evacuations were limited to sections of Harris County outside Houston, as well as nearby bayous and Galveston Bay. But the 2 million residents of the city itself and 1 million in other areas of the county were asked to remain at home.
"We are still saying: Please shelter in place, or to use the Texas expression, hunker down," said Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, the county's chief administrator. "For the vast majority of people who live in our area, stay where you are. The winds will blow and they'll howl and we'll get a lot of rain, but if you lose power and need to leave, you can do that later."
So that is that! We are staying put as told by our government officials! I hope they know what they are talking about! I hope we will all be okay after "HUNKERING" down?!?! I'm sure yall are ready for Ike to come and go so I will stop doing blog post about him! Sorry! I just want to document this bad boy! Bare with me!
Mr. "S" mom called to check in! She is really worried about us! They just don't deal with storms like this in Ohio! She said if we don't call or if we don't answer our phones on Saturday she is sending the National Guard to come knock on our doors! =)
I've got my camera charging! I will try and take pics (in hope they turn out)!
In other world news today (as if there is anything else going on out there other than Ike) is a day I will never forget ~ 9/11! One of my blog buds La Vie De Laurie did a short little post talking about 9/11 ~ Never Forget 9/11! I left here this comment:
"I’m like you! I will NEVER forget! I will never forget what I saw on TV, heard on the radio or looked at on the computer! All the sad emails and videos…over and over and over again! I will always remember where I was that day and what I was doing! It was nothing special…I wouldn’t have remembered that day for any other reason!!!!! I was at work, it was a normal day! Then I get a phone call from a co-worker telling me to turn on the radio! She goes on to tell me what she is watching on TV. I was in total shock! I think I just sat there in disbelief! This couldn’t be real! This couldn't be happening in the USA! Our home, Our Country!"
I hope this is something that our government can prevent from every happening again!
Harris County Orders Mandatory Evacuation For Some Areas
HELLO ~ We live in Harris County? I'm freaking!
Just an update on "IKE"! We will be meeting him face to face sometime tomorrow night or early Saturday morning!
Look at the above map...do you see Houston on the map? That is where I am! Also you see where it says Lufkin on the top of the map ~ our lake house it between there and Houston!
I took the following info from our local news channel website:
HOUSTON -- Harris County ordered a mandatory evacuation Thursday for some areas as residents along the southeast Texas coast head to higher ground as the models predicting Hurricane Ike's path indicate it could devastate the area, KPRC Local 2 reported.
"Friday is when we'll really start to feel some effects here in Houston, some of those outer rain bands," KPRC Local 2 meteorologist Anthony Yanez said. "You'll also notice some of those tropical storm force winds tomorrow (Friday) morning along the coast. Today (Thursday) is the calm before the storm."
Hurricane force winds extend 115 miles from Ike's center and tropical storm force winds extend 255 miles.
"About 1 a.m. Saturday it's going to begin to make landfall as a Category 3 -- it wouldn't surprise me at all if it's a Category 4," Yanez said. "It is going to spend much of Saturday moving out of here."
Houston and Harris County officials asked employers to only require essential employees go to work on Friday to ease traffic for those who need to evacuate.
Twenty-five years ago, Hurricane Alicia, a Category 3 storm, devastated our area, turning houses into kindling and knocking out power and water for weeks.
I was here for Alicia ~ I was a kid but I remember it ~ all of it! It was devastating! We were without power for over two weeks! My mom and dad have 10 acres of land we lost over 100 trees! I don't know how our house didn't get hit and torn to pieces?!?!? I hope and pray for all my friends, family, co-workers and any other person facing this fierce storm are okay!
I went to the store and stocked up on junk food yesterday! Bread, lunch meat, chips, bean dip, cookies, etc! I will say that Mr. "S" and I will NOT go hungry! My dad has a generator at his house so once the storm goes through we will go out to his house for lights, tv, bbq pit and ac! I won't be able to get on the Internet though! I really think Mr. "S" and I will be safe! Our apartments are 3 stories high and we live on the bottom floor! We should have plenty of shelter from the other apartments above and around us! At least I feel like we will be safe!
Please keep all of us in your prayers!!!!
If I receive more news updates I will do another post!
Look at the map above and also the maps below and see how much IKE has moved into the Houston area!!!
September 10, 2008
I think IKE is coming to Houston!
This is a NEW tracking map on weather.com! It has moved more into Houston from my below map this morning! I know "IKE" is coming our way!!! =(
I'm freaking out........
As most of you know I'm not a fan of storms! So you must know I'm in total panic mode with "IKE"!
On a lighter note here is a little funny...
Top Ten Reasons Hurricane Season Is Like Christmas
#10: Decorating the house (with plywood)
#9: Dragging out boxes that haven't been used since last season
#8: Last minute shopping in crowded stores (I will be doing this today after work)
#7: Regular TV shows pre-empted for 'Specials'
#6: Family coming to stay with you
#5: Family and friends from out of state calling you (Mr. "S" family is already calling us)
#4: Buying food you don't normally buy and in LARGE quantities
#3: Days off from work (YIPPEE)
#2: Candles (this could be romantic)
And the Number One reason Hurricane Season is like Christmas: At some point you're probably going to have a tree in your house!
September 8, 2008
Menu Plan Monday ~ September 8th
I'm only doing a dinner menu this week! =(
In the past I've added breakfast, lunch and a nightly activity! I'm just not very organized this week! I'm so wore out from our busy weekend up at the lake house! I just don't have it in me! So here is what I have:
Monday - Left Over's from my dad's- Roast and Potato's
Tuesday - Chicken & Buttermilk Biscuits
Wednesday - Taco Night Old El Paso Stand N Stuff Taco Kit
Saturday - Grilling Hamburgers (If "IKE" the storm doesn't come this way)
Sunday - Who knows? I do know that I'm cooking a big breakfast! Maybe we'll eat so much that we won't be hungry for dinner! HA! I doubt it!
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