Evacuated

We have left our home because of IKE headed our direction. We are at my parents house here in San Antonio. Our house should be Okay, but it's scary all the same. I am watching the news report that IKE is currently creating waves that are 38 feet high out in the gulf right now. That is really hard to try and envision. Our area is expecting winds in excess of 100 mph.

The important things, my husband and my kids are with me. My pets are with me. Not as important, but not replaceable, little momentos of our past are with me. Everything else is just stuff. Right? (Remind me of that if we have damage.)

We were able to get out without too much traffic. We only hit a little bit of traffic leaving Houston. This kind of traffic only last about 19 miles.
While we were heading out of town as quickly as possible, there were many folks heading into the storm.  We tried to photograph these convoys, but it was really more impressive than what's in the photos because it was usually about 20-30 of these vehicles at a time going down to the coast.



This was a cool sight to see, and this picture really does nothing for it--but, this is part of a line of state troopers, about 50 of them, lights flashing, heading to Houston area:


Flashlight TV-perhaps one of the best Christmas gifts ever given to us...we were able to watch the news as we were on our way out.  These are the zip codes that were being asked to evacuate as we were traveling through Houston:

Stephen's brain got mushy watching "Handy Manny" on DVD:


Joshua proved to be a pretty good little traveler. He did take two naps! And we ended up not having to pull over at all.

Time enjoying kids while "vacationing" to the Grandparent's house:


Such a cute baby!