The downside of living on the coast
looks like we may be about to have an unwelcome visitor!! Been there and done that, not wanting to do it again 
, This time we will be heading out sooner than later, last time we got one of these we opted to ride it out. Big mistake. Looks like we will be going north to Austin to stay w/ family. Hopefully it will make a detour somewhere along the way. I don't wish this on anyone, but just not us again. Being around Beaumont we are somewhere in the middle of it all. Late arti
, we didn't even get a rain shower or any wind. The storm skirted the TX Louisiana border and then moved north thru Louisianan. I can tell you from previous experience that hurricanes are not fun!! We stayed thru hurricane Rita three years ago. We had 17 people in our house ranging from 2 to 72 yrs old and even one that was pregnant. Most of those were from further south, thinking that evacuating to our house which at the time was around 120 miles from the coast, was far enough. We had 2 trees fall in on our 3000sq ft home. It was almost demolished. Our insurance payed for all the damages totaling it at around 155,000 for the house and another 45,000 for the contents in the house. We sold the house "as is" and bought a new house closer to our jobs. 
, later arti
this is getting ridiculous, I just spent over $600 on leaving for Gustav, I will not be so eager to leave on this one. Also spent another $350 on groceries that we had to replace, the insurance companies are telling us that if we leave and there is food in the fridge that spoils and it ruins the fridge, they will not replace the fridge or the food 
we threw out almost everything in ours last time!! I packed up 4 huge ice coolers and the rest went into the garbage. For nothing!! I could have fed an army off of what was thrown away.