FRED, Watch out, Ike is coming for you

[Romans922]

Fred,
Because I love you, I must warn you (and anyone else) that Hurricane Ike is coming for you (Houston, TX), predicted to be H2 to H3 when it gets to you.

If you need a place to stay come to Tchula!!!

http://www.stormpulse.com/

 

[fredtgreco]

Thanks for the warning. Hurricanes are strange storms. This morning it was coming right at us. By now (8PM CT) it is headed south of us, toward San Antonio.

 

[Ivan]

This time I don't like Ike.

 

[Romans922]

Seems like it is going further south now (centered on Corpus Christi).

 

[Romans922]

Fred,

It changed again, it is coming right for you...

What do you do in these situations Fred?

Track Hurricane Ike / Stormpulse / Hurricane tracking, mapping

 

[fredtgreco]

Andrew,

We are canceling services on Sunday. We have to on Sunday morning, because the school district is closing our facility (the high school). We are not sure about Sunday PM, but don't want people traveling in bad weather. There may also be damage to assess. We hope and pray that everything will be fine, but with it hard to get gas (many stations have run out) we don't want to cause more problems for people.

I may take an old (Tchula!) sermon and post it on the web for people to listen to in family worship on Sunday. I appreciate your prayers. Please give Jim, Phil, Sam and all the rest my regards.

 

[Scott1]

I may take an old (Tchula!) sermon and post it on the web for people to listen to in family worship on Sunday.

Now that is real sabbath and hurricane preparation!

 

[Herald]

This time I don't like Ike.

Ivan, so would you rather Hurricane Adlai?

 

[fredtgreco]

I would appreciate your prayers. Ike is bearing down on us more than we thought. It is stronger than we thought. We are expecting flooding, winds, and power outages.

 

[NaphtaliPress]

 

[ServantofGod]

I will be praying...

 

[Solus Christus]

 

[kalawine]

 

[Athaleyah]

 

[ww]

 

[BlueEyedU2Fan]

It is getting bad down here. Please keep the prayers coming.

 

[VictorBravo]

God preserve you all.

 

[fredtgreco]

Thanks for your prayers. Curfew has been called for almost the whole Houston area.

 

[turmeric]

Aren't you supposed to leave? They think it will level Galveston. Praying for you all. When is landfall?

 

[fredtgreco]

Aren't you supposed to leave? They think it will level Galveston. Praying for you all. When is landfall?

No evacuation for Houston, nor for Katy (which is West Houston). Landfall for Galveston is about 2 hours, I think. We will get bad winds, and likely lose power. I don't think much else.

After having lived through many a blizzard (including the famous Buffalo Blizzard of '77) it's weird to think this is my second major hurricane in 3 years.

 

[BJClark]

Praying for you all..

 

[Ivan]

Praying...

 

[Pilgrim]

Ike is a huge storm. It won't hit southeast Louisiana at all except for maybe some outer bands, but surge from Ike has caused flooding in a good number of low lying coastal areas, apparently worse than Gustav in some places. This is evidence of the coastal erosion (of marshland, barrier islands, etc.) that we keep hearing about since some of these areas have either never flooded before like this, or certainly not just from storm surge from a storm that is not making landfall here.

Other areas along the coast have flooded as well. I saw reports of flooding as far east as Destin.

 

[LawrenceU]

This thing's impact is amazing. In our area low lying areas have been flooded for two days. Roads are closed. Businesses and houses flooded. A lot of water and Ike just passed south of us in the Gulf.

I pray for those in the direct path.

 

[Backwoods Presbyterian]

They were showing the waves hitting the gulf coast in Florida and it looked as if the hurricane was hitting Florida.

 

[turmeric]

Are you okay, Fred?

 

[FrielWatcher]

Praying for you folk in Texas. Ike is messin' with Texas...

 

[BJClark]

Storm surge, hmm, why not call it what it is? A title wave hitting the coast lands.

 

[Ron]

Fred,

I was thinking of you this past week as I was in Houston and the Freeport area. I got out Friday morning, first thing, to head back to dry ground. Glad to see you're surviving! I wish you were closer to the beltway. There are a few people I'd recommend your church to if it were only closer. One family just moved into the area. The husband is now a professor at Houston Baptist University and apparently there's a shortage of calvinistic Baptist churches down his way, which of course would not be a bad thing if there was a glut of solidly covenantal churches in the area.

Blessings,

Ron

 

[fredtgreco]

Hello all,

We weathered the storm just fine. The Lord was gracious. Our congregation only had one family (that I know of) that had home damage (a branch fell through a kitchen window). Several of our families actually still have power. I am actually sitting in my office, which has power, while my wife does Spanish vocabulary with the kids. Having light and air conditioning is a real blessing.

Our house had a couple of shingles blow off, and some tree branches, but nothing serious. We did not even have any damaged fencing (probably because we are in the middle of the neighborhood, not on a corner. There were some trees in the neighborhood, even some big ones, that were snapped. I imagine that cleanup will take some time, but not as bad as feared.