Hurricane Ike

My sister evacuated for the last hurricane and got nothing! No rain wind or anything because they were on the "good" side of the storm. This time they are not so lucky. They live in Port Arthur, Texas which is in Jefferson county. If you are watching the weather channel they are mentioning them very often. Not really a good thing if you are in the path of a hurricane. My sister and her family got here yesterday evening and are completely exhausted mentally and physically. They were just hit a few years ago by Rita pretty hard with a tree landing on their house and since then have had to evacuate numerous times. If you are keeping up with the hurricane you will hear that Port Arthur's seawall is built to withstand a 16 foot surge. It has not been tested for that so they don't know if it would hold up. Well with this storm they are predicting a 20 foot surge. You do the math. To top it off. Some genius in Bridge City thought they didn't need a seawall so they don't have one! They are also in the 20 foot surge zone. So Bridge City is really not going to fair well. Here is a link from the weather channel.

My husband has been put on standby to respond after the storm moves through. He didn't go with Katrina so he wants to go this time. We hope it is not that bad and he doesn't have to go for the people's sake down there. With the last hurricane he was on standby but didn't have to go so we hope for them it will be like that again.