[GreenKeys] Fwd: Our man in Houston...

[Don Robert House]

Greenkeyers,

Please hold the best thoughts and prayers for Robert and Susan as  
they prepare for the worst..

Don
K9TTY


Begin forwarded message:

Don,

Thanks for the thoughts.  We are currently planning to hunker down  
and ride it out.  However, the 22:00 update was not good, to say the  
least.  I spent the day hauling stuff back to one of my storage  
buildings, getting petrol, removing missile items, etc.  Tomorrow we  
have to finish the missile removal, figure out what's wrong with our  
little generator, and get our paid eBay items to the PO so that at  
least they will get out of town.  And a few other items.  The storage  
buildings are all fairly well situated in that none have large empty  
areas around them.  The main one is a steel structure and should be  
OK.  The two smaller ones are corrugated steel over wood frame, and  
less secure.

Here at the house, we have some trees around that may cause  
problems.  Never know.  We are otherwise doing the best we can to  
batten down.  We have adequate supplies of food, water and fuel for  
several days.  Although water could get into the house if a tree gets  
blown over onto it, otherwise we are in no danger of getting wet.  I  
have a large (overstock) supply of the lightweight 8x10 tarpaulins  
that I normally use as a lean-to roof in front of one of the garage  
overhead doors.  I plan to spread some of them out over the boxes in  
the attic in which my TM collection is stored.  So if a tree goes  
through the roof, the manuals will have some protection from the rain  
until I can get a patch over the roof.

Fotunately, for the most part, the hardware can withstand a fresh  
water washdown for a few days.  So I'm not terribly concerned about  
most of it.

If the forecasts worsen (if the projected landfall shifts further  
east toward Houston), we may bug out.  But probably won't make that  
decision until Friday morning.  In which case we will probably head  
east into Louisiana before turning north and heading for my mother's  
place in north Louisiana.  At least tonight, with all of the  
mandatory evacuations from the coastal cities going on, they are all  
going north.  I-10 east traffic is relatively light.

So, we'll see.

Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
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