Here we go...

The sun is going down, and the wind is starting to pick up. It's gusting to 40 or 45 mph now, maybe higher. We're just sort of hanging out, watching the news on TV. We went out in the front yard a little while ago and visited with some neighbors. It looks like no one on our block scrammed from the storm, so we've got plenty of company if we all get wiped out.

One neat website that the City of Houston has running is http://www.houstonhidefromthewind.org/. We're zip 77064. Looks like 81mph winds expected as of right now.

Time to get dinner wrapped up and get the kids bathed and ready for bed. I'll try to post again later if the power (and cable internet) holds out.