Status Report

Hello everyone, we made it through Ike, the house is a-ok, we lost power at about 2AM and just got it back a few hours ago. It was not the most comfortable day, but we were grateful that that was the extent of our Ike experience.

When we could not take the heat any longer we went to Charlie's model house to power up our rechargables, catch some news and some AC - the Orgerons and the Diluzios joined us - as they lost power too - and we were happy for their company, the past couple days had us a little rattled.

CR kept us busy, entertaining us with his tentative and mostly inadvertent attempts to walk (!), and alternately with his teething which is in full gear, his poor little gums are a mess - and he is not shy to let you know all about it. One item of note, if music plays on the TV, radio, or his toys, CR is DANCING TO IT, his dancing is a combination of bouncing up and down and hand waving, and laughing - and it is just my most favorite thing right now.

Daycare is closed till the schools are back in, but that kind of works out as my building - the one on TV in downtown Houston with the glass all blown out - is closed till at least Wednesday. (It turns out the damage is on the opposite side from our offices.)

We have our fingers crossed that our friends and associates in other parts of Houston fared well through the storm.

Yikes - it's IKE!

This is just a post to keep everyone updated on what's going on here with the IKE situation. Houston is getting into hunker down mode today and I will be home tomorrow through the rest of the weekend. We are out in Katy which per the SciGuy at the Houston Chronicle (who is the local authority on the hurricanes) 'a well built house in Katy is one of the safest places you can be in Houston' in the event of a hurricane. So there's that. My only real fear right now is losing electricity for an extended period of time which will be miserable.

Got gas this morning (one station was out of gas already, and the station I did go to was out of unleaded, ugh), and we will be bringing in everything from the yard tonight. Saffron broke out in her seasonal allergies and we are hoping she can make the vet to get the 'anti-itching' shot before everything closes down.

Will send updates via the blog and I set up a Twitter account too (called 'TheRussos') if you have Twitter and want to follow us that way. If we lose electricity I will send updates to Twitter from the phone. [As a disclaimer I am not a huge fan of the Twitter but I see it could be useful in a case like this.]