OMG!!!!!1 Hurricane! It
Entered: 2008-09-11
Edited: 2008-09-11
Type: journal

This is a live image on the NHC's site so at some point this will change and look silly in the archives. Deal.

On the bright side... I don't live in a storm surge zone, don't have to evacuate and don't have much to worry about. Ike is looking like it it'll make landfall as a Cat2 now, and while we might get some 80mph winds (and some 100mph gusts) that's not really enough to do more than minor damage to the house. Only thing I'm worried about at this point is losing power and my friends and family in AK getting worried about me. Oh and losing the A/C would suck but the cars are all gassed up and we can charge cellphones and laptops in them while taking an A/C break if it comes to that.

Also I don't have to go to work tomorrow! Since we got out early today Becca and I have already finished getting supplies and doing what prep to the house we can. While waiting for the hurricane show to start tomorrow I get to hang out in the shop working on this:



The top to my new workbench - a 120#, two foot by six foot slab of solid Ash. It's going to be an 18th century, French style workbench, as discussed in Andre Roubo's L'ART DU MENUISIER (THE ART OF THE JOINER)

Being an inveterate handtool user I can keep working even if we lose power. Hell I can work by lamplight if I need to ;-)




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