When I left work yesterday the sky overhead looked exactly like it did six years ago when Allison dropped 39" of rain on Houston in a 24-hour period. I kept on eye on the tv all night until I went to bed at 10:30pm and even then they were saying it'd move over Houston as just a tropical storm with heavy rain and winds about 45 mph. Sometime late at night it swerved east, keeping over the water and blew up to a class 1 in a very short amount of time.

Most hurricanes are at sea for for a week or more before they hit. Three days ago this was just a blob of low pressure and wasn't considered a threat. It just goes to show how quickly these things can pop up! You need to stock up before hurricane season starts (which I did).

On the downside, I was hoping for heavy rains to make it easier to pull out a bunch of shrubs. Oh well.

-Blast