Ike Ike, Baby.
Y’all. We fixin’ to get Tina Turner’d up in this bitch. Ike’s on his way. He gonna slap-a-ho all over Houston.
Our company is closed tomorrow and people are heading out. I think they finally got a decent evac procedure working now. The Mayor and county disaster officials are all on the same page this time. Manditory evac is only for coastal areas where they feel storm surge will flood. Everyone else should stay in and ride out, leaving only if you can’t stand the power outages and so on.
It’s been 25 years since Houston has been hit with a major hurricane. Alicia back in 1983 had people out of power on the Northside of town for upwards of 9 days. That is what is gonna suck ass the most. It’s going to be so ridiculously hot.
If we’re out for days on end, I’m packing up and heading for Breaux Bridge. Eff all that business. I have a laptop. I can work from anywhere.
So, don’t worry too much about us. We have 25 gallons of water because Ozarka keeps delivering bottles even when we don’t drink all that we already have. We have plenty of food and we can always go to my Momma’s for anything else.
We have lots of liquor, too.
My house was built in 1932 and survived all the major hurricanes and tropical storms just fine, so I’m sure we’ll be A-OK. I’m just hoping Ike blows down my back fence since it’s falling apart. 
All in all, I think we’ll be fine. Mike will experience his first Gulf Coast hurricane and we will play lots of games and have some quality (albeit HOT) time together.
Now, today is also 9/11. We drove by ground zero a few weeks ago when we were in the city for Mike’s friend’s wedding. It was eerie… still so desolate. When didn’t realize we were going to pass it until we were right there. It gave me chills and was just so… sad.
Never Forgot.
And for a bit of lagniappe, click this.
Enjoying the calm before the storm
-Ali
Stay safe and keep in touch to let me know that everyone is okay. I’ll be praying that Ike decides not to take on FOF and back off.
Ground zero is amazingly eerie, even all these years later. I know there’ll be a day when it’ll be a bustling part of the the busy city again, but those who know what stood there for 30 years, and the evil that brought it down will never feel the same way about that site ever again. The city, the country and the world changed that day – for everyone – and it’s a shame that a lot of people fail to acknowledge that.
Way to pimp yo “Thriller” dance. Now maybe if you did some “Proud Mary” up in there, Ike will reconsider. LOVE YOU!
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Here we are, rock us like a hurricane.
*fade out*
Ali:
Am starting to suspect we’re related in some way, what with those funky-fresh dance moves and the sashay shantay!. Thanks for that eightiestastic lagniappe, cher!
We’re riding it out too. We got water, Doritos, and booze. What what.