Where we sit in League City, which is midway between Houston and Galveston, we are in a Cat.4 storm surge evacuation area. Fortunately conditions right now are not favorable for rapid growth and it looks like the storms movement will be fast enough so we might not get that strong of a storm. Katrina and Rita were both plowing through the islands as hurricanes and Ernesto is not. We rode out Alicia in '83 in this house with just duct tape on the windows and did'nt leave for Rita last year. We got the boards cut for the windows (so at least those are ready) and were making the final preparations to leave while keeping tabs on the massive traffic jam of the evacuation. We decided to stay one more day while watching the storm track and with it tracking a bit more to the east with each advisory we deicided to board up some of the windows that would be facing the wind and stayed put. We are ready and we are going to wait until the last minute to leave if we need to.
