Ivan-a Go Away
We're starting to feel the effects of Hurricane Ivan here in Columbus. It was very cloudy all day, and it rained on and off most of the day, though never very hard. Really, we're all pretty thankful that he's hitting further west than the original models showed. On Sunday, everyone was expecting Ivan to make landfall somewhere near Panama City, only about 175 miles away.
He's expected to hit in the next few hours, somewhere between Mobile and Pensacola. Already it's much windier around here, and if you look at a map, you can see that the nasty rain is only about 20 miles from us right now.
Its kind of weird to look at our local weather radar. Usually when you watch a weather forecast, you can see the weather moving from west to east. Not during a hurricane. The weather is moving from the southeast to the northwest. Very strange.
I spent much of the day today trying to hunt down hurricane provisions. I figure, we're supposed to get much, much worse weather than Hurricane Frances brought us, so the odds of losing power again are pretty good. The stores today were packed with people loading up on batteries and bottled water. Forget about flashlights. Everyone was already sold out late on Tuesday. I managed to find a couple cheapie ones at the Dollar Tree. They're pretty poor quality, but good enough to keep in the bathroom so we don't trip over anything.
Our chief meterologist says that we'll have winds from about 20-30 mph tomorrow... with gusts as high as 55 mph. The Weather Channel says gusts up to 70 mph. Either way, not good. That's why I thought I'd better blog tonight. Who knows if I'll have a working computer in the next few days.
So, as you flip past the weather channel this weekend, think of us.
We're starting to feel the effects of Hurricane Ivan here in Columbus. It was very cloudy all day, and it rained on and off most of the day, though never very hard. Really, we're all pretty thankful that he's hitting further west than the original models showed. On Sunday, everyone was expecting Ivan to make landfall somewhere near Panama City, only about 175 miles away.
He's expected to hit in the next few hours, somewhere between Mobile and Pensacola. Already it's much windier around here, and if you look at a map, you can see that the nasty rain is only about 20 miles from us right now.
Its kind of weird to look at our local weather radar. Usually when you watch a weather forecast, you can see the weather moving from west to east. Not during a hurricane. The weather is moving from the southeast to the northwest. Very strange.
I spent much of the day today trying to hunt down hurricane provisions. I figure, we're supposed to get much, much worse weather than Hurricane Frances brought us, so the odds of losing power again are pretty good. The stores today were packed with people loading up on batteries and bottled water. Forget about flashlights. Everyone was already sold out late on Tuesday. I managed to find a couple cheapie ones at the Dollar Tree. They're pretty poor quality, but good enough to keep in the bathroom so we don't trip over anything.
Our chief meterologist says that we'll have winds from about 20-30 mph tomorrow... with gusts as high as 55 mph. The Weather Channel says gusts up to 70 mph. Either way, not good. That's why I thought I'd better blog tonight. Who knows if I'll have a working computer in the next few days.
So, as you flip past the weather channel this weekend, think of us.
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