So "Rita"s on its way to Houston, and is expected to be a CAT 4 by the time it hits... i.e. comparable to Katrina. Obviously it won't inflict as much damage as it did to New Orleans, the primary reason being that our city is above sea level....... but still.
i filled up the gas tank of both cars today, my parents are doing the same with their cars. we're parking in an empty parking lot on friday night onward, cause our neighborhood has too many trees and such. in addition i'm filling up our hot tub to have enough water to flush toilets, cause when Allison came through a few years ago, we went without electricity for 2 weeks plus, and that didn't even do noticeable damage to our neighborhood! because all the power lines here are above ground, it just takes one tree to fall over...
also, we're filling up everything we have with water. our water comes from a well, so when electricity goes out, so does our water supply. big chance they may call to evacuate, and if they do, we're in serious trouble. for one, we've still got thousands and thousands of refugees from Katrina's destruction (mostly people from New Orleans) in our city, a lot of them still in the Astrodome...
i'm kind of panicking. i'm giving all of senior management (they're all evacuating to different places over the weekend) an external hard drive, sealed in a thick plastic bag, with all the company's data and information on it (encrypted), just in case. i'm also covering all the servers with a tarp, bringing in everyone's PCs to the server room, and covering them too.
so yeah. i'm praying that it'll turn its course.
