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Thursday: Been watching Stormpulse.com all day to stay current on the storm. We weren't really afraid of the wind, but being so close to the water was a major concern. My house is 20 ft above sea level and the surge was predicted to be around 15 ft. We didn't really want to mess around with 5 ft of wiggle room. Start boarding up the house around noon and leave by that night. Now, being us, yankees, we didn't really know how to board up the windows. We had some ideas, and the finished product, yet not perfect was fairly fast and easy. We only boarded up the back side because we felt it was fairly vulnerable. Got done around 5 p.m.
After admiring our job well done my sister and I walked down to the dock in our neighberhood that flows out into Clearlake. Already the water was RIGHT below the dock. Sometimes when the water is low enough we can get a row boat under this dock just to give you an idea that this wasn't all that common. We had 5 cars to fill up to make sure that we had enough gasoline to get through the week. 3 cars came on the convoy to North Houston and 2 stayed in the garage.
Left for the Sheraton just down the street from Bush international thinking we would be a huge distance from the surge, but would have to deal with wind, and subsequent power loss.
Left my house at 8 p.m arrived at the hotel at 10 p.m.