OK, the numbers have been crunched, models updated, forecasts made...

and it officially looks like we're going to take a pretty direct hit from Hurricane Ike.  The 10 AM CDT update map looks like this:

We're just east of the 7 AM Saturday location...the ugly side of the storm.  In case it doesn't go without saying, we'll probably loose power here, which will put a damper on cooking, watching TV, and blogging.

I plan on taking pictures regularly and posting them on my Tumblr blog, but we'll see how long I'm able to do that.  I may be posting them after the fact!