Hey guys just want to share with all of you that I may not be on line for a while due to the hurricane that is comming. I do not live on the coast but I live in East Texas. The eye wall of the storm is going to be passing over the county I live in.

We are going to be getting 4 - 10 inches of rain. 40 to 50 mile winds and also I work for a energy company and I will be reporting power outages for people. I am also in the Civil Air Patrol and my unit might get activated.But I can't be sure on that.


I just wanted to let everyone that,so if anyone askes why I have not been on line for a while. If I get a chance I will give you a play by play of the storm.

Hurricane Ike will make land fall Saturday morning on the Texas coast.

Talk at ya later guys.

Yikes! Stay safe, Sheila, please? And let us know that you're all right.

Hurricane Yikes!

Stay safe, Shelia! We'll be thinking about you and hoping everyone comes through okay.

Stay Safe, and don't go playing Hero...

Yes, keep safe Sheila. Hopefully it dies down enough so that it causes very little or preferably no damage to people and property.

It is worrisome. I have a grandmother in San Antonio, Texas, which is farther inland, but still disconcerting.

My family and I have been watching all of the hurricanes very close on the news, because were an east coast state. Even though were not targeted by Ike, we've been watching it we've been praying for everyone in its path. Connect as soon as you can when it's over to tell us you're okay! Stay safe! Please!

PS I've heard that duck tape on the windows can keep them from shattering during a hurricane. Maybe some MacGyver ingenuity can help keep you safer?

Just saw on the news three peoples got killed already.

And than Indy says: I like Ike.

I hope all our members in that area are safe and well.

We had a couple of back-to-back hurricanes rip through this part of the world a few weeks back, so I can certainly sympathize with whats going on there.

No matter how clever mankind gets, we can't thwart mother nature... especially when she's a in a grumpy mood.

Not much will help when a solid object is thrown through your window at 100 miles per hour -- that's why people have hurricane shutters. A solid sheet of steel does a lot more than duct tape. And there's always plenty of warning when a hurricane is on the way, which gives people time to get the shutters up. (It also makes it hard to understand why people in the path of a storm 600 miles across think they're somehow going to be immune.)

My partner lives in southern Florida: her house got whumped by both Katrina and Rita back in 2005. Fortunately, her shutters held. But we had several bad days earlier when it looks as if Ike was going to hit Florida.

*anxiously waitiing till Sheila checks in again safe!*

Ok guys I'm still here. My husband and I are safe and my family are all safe. I can tell you that the storm it self was very unreal. The eye of the storm passed right over my town in East Texas. We had about 30-40 mile winds and wind gust. My husband and I are kinda weather geeks so we were driving around in the storm to check ever thing out.

I have to tell you also we had no storm damage at our house. My family did not have any eaither. We were very blessed that nothing happend. My Civil Air Partol unit did not get activated. But it is still early.

I do have many friends that live in Houston. My sisters best friend lives in Houston and they did rev minor damage.They have been without power since the storm came in.

I also work for a energy company that reports power outages for Houston. I think as of right now we have 2 MILLION people with out power in Houston. It will be a very long week. So I may not get to go online that much.

As far as the duck tape on the windows I did not have to use it.I did think about it thought.

Thanks to those who were thinking about me and thank you for the prayers. Many wonderful thanks you my MacGyver buds.
Will try to resond soon.

Whew! Thanks for checking in!

Yes I'm glad I made it throught the storm. Many thanks again for everyone for thinking of me.

Glad to hear you made it through OK. Some of the reports and photos we are getting here in Australia are pretty horrifying.