The Ingys and Ike-11:40 A.M.

We've made all our hurricane preparations. We've put all our outside things in the garage, I've washed all the clothes, and everybody has taken a shower...we want to make sure we look our best for the TV cameras when they rescue us from the roof of our house! I'm kidding about the last part, if our house floods, then all of Houston will be underwater. Their forecasting we'll have to deal with 70-100 mile an hour winds and 4-8 inches of rain here in town. Of course the storm is supposed to hit around midnight, so we won't be able to see what's coming at us. The water is already over the Seawall in Galveston. For you non-Texans: The seawall was built in 1902 after the 1900 hurricane that killed between 6,000-12,000 people and is 17 feet high and 16 feet thick. Here's another picture from Chanel 2 showing the waves hitting The Seawall.

As you can see from the picture above, and our pictures, it's still not raining...not even cloudy. Here are pictures from our preparations this morning. JR's swing-set with no swings, our empty back porch, and Jason and JR working on clearing our front porch.