Due to the probable proximity of Hurricane Ike at landfall, Steve Bates of Yellow Doggerel Democrat [as well as Stella and the cats] are looking for somewhere else to ride out the storm.
If that happens he will probably do any posting on the YDD Annex rather than his regular site.
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Thanks for the notice, Bryan. We won’t know until sometime Thursday afternoon or evening… where Ike is going, whether we’re leaving home for a couple of days, etc. (Well, Stella has to go to work tomorrow; no rest for the weary.) If I have power and an unrestricted net connection somewhere, I can keep posting at the YDD from the laptop. Otherwise, it’ll be on the YDD Annex, as you noted. Again, thanks.
It is looking more to the South this morning, but it is the timing on the low dropping down that will be the determining factor. The models are clustering just North of Corpus Christi [Matagorda Bay?], but the surge is going to be a problem for everyone North of landfall. We were 200 miles away from Katrina and got an 8 foot surge. We are already getting major waves off-shore and experiencing some beach erosion.
Bryan, it’s a quirky storm, if you can believe the forecasters. Yes, the forecast is a bit to the south of us, but the forecasters all keep appending little notes to the discussions about not taking the predicted landfall point seriously. Believe me… we don’t.
I put up another update on the main YDD site. I still don’t know whether we’re evacuating, or exactly when we would do so. Obviously it’s no later than tomorrow morning. I won’t be doing Friday cat blogging this week!
The actual landfall is a matter of wind, but the real danger is the storm surge, and the ship channel is going to funnel that inland to Houston. After the 4PM update I’ll post about what it is doing locally, because we are feeling the effects all the way over here.
My thoughts are with ya, Steve – keep us posted….
With luck the storm will continue the trend to the North, but that just means someone else gets blasted.