It’s Thursday morning and I’m holed up at my girlfriends place in Spring. Weather here in Houston is forecast at 90F for the next couple of days, with the rain starting on Friday night.

TxDOT have started opening both sides of the freeways out of town since so many people are evacuating. The gulf coast around Houston is largely under mandatory evacuation, so a constant stream of traffic is stuck on the freeways. Many cars are overheating and running out of gas due to the slow speeds, so that may become a worse problem as more gas stations in Houston run low on gasolene supplies.

We just went round the garden and moved stuff into the garage to try and minimize the chances of plant pots, tables etc coming in through the windows. At this point, I don’t really want to evacuate since I think that would add even more risk. As far North as we are in Spring, it’s going to get very wet and windy, but unless we get a direct hit on the house from a tornado, we should be ok.