We finally woke the kids up and moved over. The temporary quarters are more than adequate. The house is beautiful, but not near the water. I suppose that's the idea when you're trying to avoid a hurricane.
I took a ride back to the house when I got up this morning to find that D.I.P.D. was camped out at the bottom of our street. The main road, Bienville, has washed over in a few places to the west and they don't want any rubberneckin' down there if they can avoid it.
Our house was fine, the water had receded from last night. Here's what it looked like at 7:30.
That fence is our back yard. So the water only got about 30 feet from the house. I just found that we have a much slower connection at this house so Im not going to put pictures up right now.
On the way out of the house, I stopped to talk to the copper on the corner. He said that they have put the LCSF plan in place. That stands for Lowest Common Sissy Factor. He said that the PD has to fly into action whenever there is enough water on the road for the tourists to get their hubcaps wet.
So in summary, the hurricane is supposed to come ashore sometime this afternoon and some where near Mobile. We are in between the storm and Mobile so that's just peachy. However, it seems as if the forecast is better...some of the models are now calling for the storm to be downgraded to a tropical storm before it gets here. We shall see. We are hopeful that we can get back into the other house in the next day or two. The weather is supposed to be sunny and warm for the rest of the week as soon as this storm goes through.
We aren't too worried, the grammar school on the island is open today, and that is one mile from where the road is closed. So that would seem to be a positive sign.
Otherwise it's all good. We are having fun with our friends, the food is good and we have another memorable Dauphin Island trip in progress....more later.
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