Looks like Ike is taking a slight more east turn...we may be on the west side of the eye....not at the center of the eye ,as we were in Alicia...

we just ggot all outside furniture piled between the fence and the garage...plants in the garage with the bird...
my car is left at my office in the conc. garage...my wifes car is in our neighbors garage...my son is going ut west to visit a friends rach...taking the dog...wife is baking sme 'beer bread'...and Im thawing out some tenderloins to grill tonite....bought some extra wine, beer and water yesterday....we`ll be ok, I think..plus we are "high" for Housto , at 65' abv sealevel...downtown is at 45'

my worries is about our OLD, HUGE oak trees ,that drop limbs even on a good day! hopefully none will go thru the roof...

When Alicia came thru we lost power ,but were the ONLY on our block/neighbor hood ,so it was 3 weeks before we got it back, since they fix the 'big problems' first..it wsnt bad, we had 16 extyension cords from our neighbors garage to our fridge, cooked on my camper stove in the garage...worst was having a 10 mo old baby and no a/c...