Thursday, September 11, 2008

Leaving

The order came across this morning for our zip code to evacuate beginning at noon today.  We will spend the morning gathering our belongings and securing our house.  The plan is to meet at TR/PC's house at 2 pm ready to go.  At that time we will check out the storm track plus the traffic situation and choose a direction.  Right now we are leaning towards Lafayette because there will be more room for us there, the flooding potential is less and the location we plan on staying is in town.  Our housing option in Austin is much further out of town and space is limited.  

So, that is the plan for now.  Thanks for all the phone calls and emails this morning.  Know that we are safe and we have a good plan.  I'll catch you all up when I can.

Big hugs all around!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You know you can bypass all traffic and fly to DC! Usually the airports are pretty scarce.

cebarnes said...

I was up with the baby at 1am and caught the repeat of AC 360, where they reported that Ike had turned and was heading toward Houston. I immediately thought of your email last week that said you had a bad feeling about this storm. Perhaps you should have been a meteorologist? :)

Thinking of you as you deal with this. I hope the evacuation goes as smoothly as one can go and that your property does not incur much damage.