No real news other than the winds will kick in around midnight - landfall about 6:00am. We set a tent up in the house for the kids to sleep in (no reason other than to amuse them). They played with the flashlights so much we had to threaten them within inches of their lives to go to sleep. They wanted to set the tent up outside but we convinced them it wasn't the best idea.
On an interesting note, I made sure the ham radio worked. All the repeaters had traffic helping people find best routes to where they were going etc. Lots of people giving reports. Nice to have a helpful hobby community when it comes to a disaster. Rhianna was asking why I had a "talking radio" instead of one that played music. She thought it was pretty neat.
Unlike previous storms they have many gas stations with fuel. The grocery stores looked like they had been wiped out though. They have 20,000 people sleeping in the Super Dome.
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