Pre-Mandatory Evacuations

Well, the order has been given - we are to evacuate.  We kind of knew this was coming since we live right on the water (picture evidence to follow) so it wasn't a big deal.  We were ready!  One of Jake's Navy friends offered to let us stay with them for a few days while the worst of it blows through.

We found out yesterday afternoon that we would have to evacuate so we packed the car up and then planned for all possible scenarios and then watched some TV, played some computer games, and went to sleep.  This morning, Jake had to go to work so Jaden and I just hung out, and then when he went down for his nap I started putting together some clothes and toiletries.  When Jake gets home in a few minutes we'll roll up some of our rugs, put some trash bags around the TV, maybe put the couches up on chairs, pack up more food and games, and head out.  It's a very gradual evacuation - nothing like in the movies! :)

Here are our pre-evacuation pictures of some of our house:

 Yep - that's the water.  We live on an island, so the water here is technically an Intracoastal Waterway, it will still be affected by storm surge.

Those tall buildings in the background are the condos on the beach, so at least that is a mile away.

Basically we are in danger of flooding and not much else, but back in June we got 14 inches of water in a day and everywhere in Pensacola was crazy flooded but our house was fine except for a little water in the garage.  We are sandbagging in front of the garage and everything in the garage is in water proof containers.  Gotta go roll up some rugs!