Besides, they were probably too busy debating whether Sarah Palin is the pig or the lipstick to pay attention to something so trivial as a potential mini-tsunami along the Texas coast…

They can’t help themselves. Your candidate goes on Letterman, and you have to use the clip. That didn’t take any effort. Explaining the notion of Ike’s IKE is too much trouble for Journalism majors, who probably think Calculus is a Greek god.

A “mere Cat 2″ hurricane can’t possibly be bigger news than that, at least until they can figure out a way that the dead people who refused to evacuate are somehow FEMA’s (and therefore McSame’s) fault.

So revised plans are to include charged up power tools in our central hall supplies, along with a few of the gallons and gallons of water in the fridge/freezer. I doubt it will get over our heads in our house, but at least we’ll have a dry place to store our stuff (assuming our roof isn’t ripped off, but like I posted earlier, this house has been through Alicia and Carla, that’s somewhat reassuring).

Most coastal people have evac’d already, and now the surge has covered some roads too much to evac from some locations. Since the evac was mandatory, rescue personal is relieved of any liability of those that chose not to evac.

That’s the phrase being used today on CNN and whatnot.

We’ll be turning off power before water comes in the house to avoid a fire from electrical shorts — a house burned down one street away from me during TS Allison, and a mother and son were electrocuted putting their TV to higher ground further north in Houston.

I set up and tested twitter to receive text messages, but who knows if it will work after the storm. At least my family and friends might be able to hear how we fared a little sooner, once we get through. I’m Shreela at twitter, I unfollowed everyone so only my tweets show.

If it goes cat4, I might consider worry-nagging hubby to evac to a shelter, if they’re not full. Staying at a shelter unnerves me almost as much as hurricanes, so it would have to be a really bad hurricane.

Gotta go put more water and supplies in containers. Seeya in a few days/weeks 8^)

http://www.galveston.com/webcams

Also, dead dumb-asses are difficult for searchers but dead dumb-asses with kids tied to their belt are real hard on the men and women who have to haul the bodies in their trucks. The kids didn’t have a choice.

If your not going to leave, do the searchers a favor and send the kids inland. Notice, I didn’t say rescuers. By the time the the SAR teams can get in after the water recedes, it will be search and recovery, no rescue, no CNN, just pulling the bodies from the trees and attics.