I've received several phone calls over the past couple of days from people concerned about us and the impact Hurricane Ike is having on us. We are fine, thank you all for your concern. Three days ago we were smack dab in the center of Ike's projected path and we were preparing for high winds and lots of rain. By preparing I mean I turned off the sprinklers and toasted to a free lawn watering. On Thursday, when I saw Ike put his right turn signal on and head more towards Galveston and Houston, I made a prediction: we wouldn't see anything but sunny skies and the hottest temperatures we've had all summer.
Typically the wrath of a hurricane is unleashed on the eastern side of the storm while the western side is almost sedate by comparison. When Hurricane Rita struck the Texas coast back in 2005, San Antonians cleared out the shelves at the supermarket and drained the pumps of every gas station in the city. The impact to us: sunny skies and warmer temperatures (and higher gas prices). So although I took meteorology pass/fail and the professionals still have the little rain icon in our forecast for the day, it turns out that my prediction was correct; the only water we're seeing is coming from my misters on the back porch. There's a few clouds floating about in the sky, but my thermometer just hit 100.7 degrees, the highest I've seen it all summer. Tomorrow morning my sprinklers will go on, no free lawn watering this weekend. And the only hurricanes at our parties this weekend will be served in a glass.
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