Pre Rita

[sereneorange]

We have been very busy today. I have done all laundry, nailed a cover to my window, cleaned. Karen has stored away all the kitchen appliances, and put somewhat of a cover on the downstairs Easterly window. Connor has been so much help. He hauled the giant laundry basket downstairs and moved most of the plants outside out of the way of wind. He filled the plastic jugs with pool water, and then a neighbor decided to take about half without asking. Fine..I hope she drinks it, those jugs were green inside. I folded a load of laundry by the pool and let Con swim, and he is being rewarded with a giant bowl of ice cream tonight also. He came upstairs and crawled into a tight spot and nailed the cover to the window where I didn't have room to manuever myself. He is upstairs vaccuming my sister's room right now. I still need to put away laundry, but it is 80 degrees in here, and all I feel like doing is sitting. The cats have slept all day. It is like our exertion has exhausted them. Poor little babies.

I was doing my laundry and thinking of clothes to pack, not knowing how much and having limited space, and realized, all the clothes I like I am leaving here. What if it is blown down and all I have are ugly clothes that I just wear around the house, and never go out in public with. That sucks. On the upside, I like new clothes.

I am really hoping that everything stays okay and dry here. There are things we just cannot take with us: all the photos, yearbooks, all of Con's toys, and the 5 bookshelves overflowing with books. In addition, I am really lazy and don't feel like cleaning up after a hurricane. It was a pain enough to clean up after Allison in 2001.
My sister is cooking up a delicious pasta meal and made a badass Hurricane Salad. That is where you use all of the amazingly scrumptious organic tomatoes we have in the kitchen and a lot of Feta cheese because it is just going to all go bad while we are gone.

I have taken a few photos for Pre Rita here and am kind enough to put behind a cut.







Pre Rita Sky. No Hurricane clouds yet. We will not see the sun after about noon tomorrow.


Here is the cell phone tower I hope doesn't fall foward onto our roof. It is packed full of birds this evening. They are incredibly chatty, too. I yelled for them to get out, but they don't seem to care that there is a storm-a-brewin'



Management did send someone over to drain the pool some. This is what drained into my apt when Allison hit in 2001. This should help.



The window on the right is my bedroom wall. Currently, all windows are intact. Lets hope it stays that way.




Earlier, when I went out for about 30 minutes, there was maybe 100 cars on the road. Unusual for a city with over 5 million people. I am pretty sure these people are headed to the only open store about a mile down the road. CVS will be open till 8 pm.

Comments

[antigone-ks.livejournal.com]

*HUGS* Be safe.

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

working on it

[(Anonymous)]

I know (hope) you've left already, but if you haven't-- the roads toward Waco are much less congested that 45. My uncle got to Dallas via Waco in just under 8 hours, instead of the 15 that people are spending on I-45. I know that's not the direction you wanted to head, but getting out faster is better, right?

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

Haven't gone anywhere. Staying put.

[antigone-ks.livejournal.com]

Bugger. That was me with the anonymous. Forgot to sign in.

[bubukity.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the storm. We are in Spring. Staying put with 13 people in one house. Funny the only one I want to kill right now is my hubby who some how broke after the twins were born.

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

13? wow..yeah. that is a bit much to handle in the sweltering heat

[damocles-tongue.livejournal.com]

will be thinking of you and thinking safe thoughts

x

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

Thanks, sweets

[alichick2004.livejournal.com]

That's great Con was such a helper today.

Hope you are not affected by Rita. hugs.

[billzy.livejournal.com]

Hey! I was thinking about you last night when on the news they mentioned Houston. Your pictures are nice. You should do the same shots after the hurricane to see the difference... I hope there wont be much and your place escape all of the damage....

That mobile mast is very close... Dont you worry about the health concerns over it...

Anyways... good luck for the next fews days and i will keep an eye on the news....

[omegaxl.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling....just stay safe & you're all in my thoughts & prayers

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

everything is good so far. Midnight was supposed to be when all hell broke loose here, but we seem to be dodging the bullet. Just windy. I would guess maybe gusts of 30 mph