I had to laugh... because I can totally relate!

My family (mom, dad, and 5 siblings) made it safely through Hurricane Ike. They are a bit traumatized, their house is badly damaged... a window blew in my parents bedroom, the roof blew off so they had a waterfall coming in on the second story, and pouring through to the first. Their entire covered back porch is now in the front yard, the water was leaking down around the fireplace too. There's more, but this is what they thought to tell me about at the moment. My brothers are currently using their fishing boat to check on the neighbors. They also cleared the storm drain of debris to help the flood waters recede. I was up basically all night watching the storm on doppler and texting with them about how Ike was moving. They live on the SE side of Houston, so the eye of the storm never passed over them. It was HOURS of constant high winds and rain... all night long. I'm just glad none of them were hurt. I'm thinking of starting a collection to help them out. God I'm glad they are all safe.

edit: I'm still really worried about my grandmother, aunt, uncle and cousin. They live in a mandatory evacuation zone (closer to the Gulf of Mexico), but didn't evacuate like idiots. No one has been able to reach them by phone.

My family is fucking crazy. As of right now they are going to "ride Ike out".
I'm kinda pissed... I mean what the hell is wrong with them? This could be pretty traumatic for my younger siblings. I guess at least my brother got his babies out of there... I'm going to go cry now.

Two (of MANY) things I do not miss about living in Houston Texas.
1. Humid heat from hell
2. Hurricanes
I do however miss my family. They live South East of Houston... right in the line of fire for Ike. My brother and his family live in the mandatory evacuation zone, so they are going to stay with grandma about 90 miles away. I really hope my parents and siblings don't try to ride this one out. They evacuated for Rita and sat in their cars stopped on the highways for hours... Rita did no damage to Houston so my dad sort of felt it was a waste. God I hope they get out of there!

Well.. I was going to write something here, but the sleeping little guy must have felt me leave the bedroom. He's now fussing. LOL So I'm off to my motherly duties.

My landlord is a giant idiot.

I tell her my dryer isn't working right, (it takes 3 60 min cycles to dry a small load) that I'm cloth diapering, and only have enough dipes for 2 days. So PLEASE call someone.

She basically says "not my problem" and LEAVES TOWN!