Looks like Ike has turned tail and is running away to Houston. THAT’S WHAT I THOUGHT IKE! WHAT? WHAT?!?! YEAH! –flexing–

So umm… yeah… I umm… I guess I’ll go return the 36 bottles of water I bought… and the shotgun shells… and the generator… and the life jacket…

…but I’m keeping the floaties!

Well, according to the experts Hurricane Ike should be hitting late Friday and it’s currently aimed more or less in the general direction of San Antonio, but not directly at us. Now we’re far enough inland that it will lose quite a bit of power before it ever got close to us. On top of this it’s only expected to be a category 3 hurricane when it does it hit land fall; strong, but not strong enough to send that letter to your mother finally admitting it was you who ate the goldfish. Add to all of this that San Antonio isn’t below sea level, and has the infrastructure to handle yearly flash floods.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that although Ike is coming, it probably won’t mean too much… unless you’re Darius in which case you can’t go mountain biking for a few days. But don’t think that stopped the San Antonio masses from descending upon the grocery store with a level of hysteria that would make your granddad shake his head even though he built that bomb shelter in the backyard back in the 50’s. Luckily for me I got to enjoy the experience first hand as I went to buy milk, cereal, peanut butter, and tuna fish.

It was just silly. I mean there was almost ZERO water left, the bread aisle had been victimized, and the line at the front of the store was obnoxiously long. Ike is coming, and the fine citizens of this Texas town are ready for the onslaught it will bring. It’s quite possible that some of us may go like 4 hours or more without power if the worst happens! Interestingly enough as I walked through the frozen food aisle I noticed that the grocery store was still full of the “White Castle Frozen Burgers”, yet it was almost completely emptied of the “White Castle Frozen Cheeseburgers”. In an emergency, go ahead and treat yourself to the extra cheese.

But don’t worry about yours truly. I’ve got a generator, tons of fuel, a shotgun, and one of those keychain, LED flash lights.