Waiting Game
It’s a waiting game now. Waiting for Hurricane Ivan. As far inland as we are (we’re about 200 miles from the coast), people here have been going nuts. Lowe’s ran out of plywood yesterday. But there were folks from the coast getting it here, because they ran out earlier. Also yesterday, almost every store in this area was out of batteries, flashlights and bottled water. People are having to drive to nearby towns just to get the supplies. We had trouble getting water containers so we could fill them up with water since we have a high risk of flood in this area.
We just got a webcam and set it up to allow family and friends monitor the conditions at our house. The link will be in the sidebar. Of course the webcam will only last till we lose power. If we’re lucky, we’ll keep power till sometime tomorrow. Just to remind everyone, we are in Montgomery, AL, just to the east of the forecasted path.
Anyone reading this in the storm’s path? How are things in your area? How are you doing? I’ll try to post updates as long as I can. Currently, newsfolk are saying we’ll be feeling tropical storm winds…50 to 75mph tomorrow. If Ivan strengthens, we may feel some hurricane winds before its all over. But fortunately, we’re inland enough that we won’t get the worst of it. We are already in tornado watch, flood watch and high wind watch.
