Well, here we go. The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season 2010.
Living here on the Texas gulf coast, I pretty much have weather.com opened up on my computer screens daily during hurricane season. Yes, I am a Weather channel junkie too.
I watch the storms closely. At some point we have to make the decision to ride it out or evacuate. Danny and I have a plan for both instances. If we evacuate, we know what is going with us and what to do to the house to prepare. If we stay, we have a stock of water and supplies as well as a generator and gas to run it. And we have good wind storm insurance and flood insurance!
Making the decision whether or not to evacuate depends on many factors like the category of the hurricane, whether we just don't feel like making the drive to the in-laws in Arkansas, etc. The category of the storm is a pretty big deciding factor but we've had mere tropical storms here that did much worse damage than a hurricane.
So for now, we sit and wait and watch.
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