Take a Hike Ike

This is a slogan I saw (on tv). written on a boarded up window in the hurricane region. The Browning-Klingman clan (Klingman=Meme and Poppy) have spent the day glued to the TV watching the events in the gulf unfold. My sister and her family live in Friendswood,Tx which is certainly in the path of this destructive storm. The children (Rachel and Stephen (my niece and nephew) have gone inland to stay with their Dad near downtown but my sister and her husband John have decided to stay in Friendswood. Friendswood is in Galveston county. Actually, it is cut in half and half lies in Harris county, but she is in the Galveston County side. They are one block away from the area that had mandatory evacuation orders. This is the same sister who convinced us back in 1994 to evacuate from our vaction in Destin,Fla, for a tropical storm. I just can't imagine her thinking it would be fun to ride out this major hurricane At this moment, Ike is 110 mph, just 1 small mph from a category 3 storm. Yikes, not fun to me. We are praying for the safety of our family and I ask that if you read this, please join us in praying for the safety of all the people in the path of this storm. Stay tuned....my sister said she was going to try to post some pics of the storm and video clips on her blog site. There is a link to her site to the left, it says "MA's blog or Mary Austin's blog (I can't remember which. )