When Fido looks at you and see's you dont have any dog food, and the kids dont see Eggo for breakfast, and your wife opens the refrigerator door to that 'wonderful' smell after the electricity has been off... , they will need more than pizza to keep em happy...

The hurricane should be on top of you, hope everyone is ok....

This one is slowing down so that means more time in the middle of the storm, that is not good...........

"..Hurricane Dolly has made landfall over South Padre Island at Category 2 strength with sustained 100 mph winds.

The AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center reports that at noon CDT, the eye of Dolly was located over South Padre Island, about 35 miles northeast of Brownsville, Texas. The Category 2 storm has virtually come to a virtual stop. The eye is expected to move over the South Texas mainland early this afternoon.

Maximum sustained winds are still around 100 mph with higher gusts. An unofficial gust of 119 mph has been recorded east of Matamoros, Mexico, while an 80 mph gust has been reported in the town of South Padre Island.

Hurricane-force winds extend up to 25 miles from the storm's center, and tropical storm-force winds extend up to 140 miles..."

Well the lights keep going on and off here. Two major cities east of us have lost power. We are in Mercedes.

Hey, Shane, I thought of you this morning when I was checking the weather. We have a partner store in Brownsville. They aren't answering the phone today for some reason. Keep us posted.

We called our neighbor and she said the power has been off on our block for 3 hours. Here in my office we haven't lost power yet. Wind is blowing hard. I hope there isn't too much damage at home.

Shane, be sure to drop in every once in a while to let us know you haven't been blown away. Hope all is well at home. Let us know what you find.

Stay safe, Shane....And let us know when you are out of danger....

We are feeling quite blessed. There is no wind-damage to speak of to our home. Our neighber to the east lost a number of shingles from his home and the neighbor to the west lost his entire roof. Everything inside has been destroyed. He will have to gut the house and completely remodel.

That said, the entire subdivision is under water. The police and fire department came evacuating everyone. I got a picture of them in their boat. I will update my website later with the pictures. I live in a mobile home with a built-on addition that I built myself. It is all on top of a concrete foundation with anchors cast into the concrete (which I also did myself) and the home has brick skirting (which, of course, I did myself). The mobile home is 36" above the slab and the addition is 24" above the slab. The top of the slab is itself 16" above the top of the curb. So my house is dry although there is about 30" of water covering the street at the edge.

We are now going to be staying with a Mexican pastor who lives here in Texas but whose district is in Mexico. Hopefully the water goes down within a week and we can move back into our home. There are so many people that have lost so much, many right around me, I just really feel like God either protected us or is rewarding me for building stuff the way it is suppose to be built. I was really concerned about my rafters coming off my roof because I wasn't sure about the way I tied them onto the structure. The hurricane stalled just north of our home so we were hit with hurricane-force winds for eight or ten hours.

What a horrible experience. Do you have insurance? Will FEMA help you?