Pre-Hurricane Madness

Like any good host, we went out today to prepare for Ike's visit. There were groceries to be purchased, cars to be filled with gasoline, blah, blah blah. After all, this is our first hurricane and we want to do it right.

It is a mad-house out there! The highways were bumper-to-bumper at noon with cars heading north. The gas stations were reminiscent of the 1970's with lines of cars idling gallons of gas waiting to pump more in. There was still bottled water everywhere, but the isle of canned foods in Wal-Mart looked like the candy isle on Halloween night. Nada! I have never seen anything like it. You would have a better chance of finding a bag of ice in the Sahara.

Thank goodness Walgreens was still stocked. They even had sales going, go figure.

So with our hard found provisions, we dug out our camping equipment from the mountain of boxes in the garage. Here we struck gold: Flashlights, propane stove, ice chests, first aid kit and more!

This girl is shopped-out! But I think that we are ready. (I hope)

-From Hurricane Central, Amy Sue reporting