Hurricane Laura
I'm from Southeast Texas in the States. I was hoping for some prayers and positive thoughts for our area and others along the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Laura is bearing down on us right now. It should be making landfall around midnight central-standard time and (hopefully) clear out about 10 AM. She's a category 4 right now, but we're praying she'll drop back down to a 3 before she lands. Either way, we're looking at wind gusts of 120-150 mph for our area. The included image shows the current projected path of the storm. I've made a yellow dot in the area of where our house is. It might be hard to see, but it is along the coast of Texas, right near the Louisiana border, and inside the red "cone" of the storm.
We've boarded up the house as best we could, packed up the little bit we could carry, and have taken ourselves and the three dogs up north four hours away. I brought only the sentimental family items from my collection with me, about three other albums of flat/paper items, and the firearms. That's really all that would fit. Even then, some of the bigger family stuff had to stay too.
My biggest concern is my 95 year old grandma. She is staying in the area with my uncle to ride out the storm. She has very bad dementia and there was much concern that she wouldn't have made the drive out, especially with the way evacuation traffic is. She's a tough one though...in her lifetime she's survived wartime England, was a "lifer's" military wife, raised three sons, has gone through countless hurricanes already and one fire. She most definitely has the British "stiff upper lip," even with her dementia.
Anyway, just pray for the Gulf Coast right now. Our area alone in the past 15 years has already gone through Hurricanes Rita, Ike, Harvey, and Imelda...and that's just the big-name storms.
Many thanks,
Robyn
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by Larry C
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