Head Injury & A Hurricane

Today my son sustained a head injury while out playing at daycare. It wasn't terrible, but it was bad enough that he had to go to the ER and they glued the wound shut to stop the bleeding and help it heal. It was pretty deep, but not very wide thank goodness. He apparently tripped and fell on the playground, hitting his head on a concrete slab with an exposed edge. He also had several bruises where he hit the concrete and the rocks that are around it. He is doing pretty well and it definitely could have been worse.

Apparently Hurricane Ike is bearing down on us here in Texas. Fortunately for those of us in Austin, we are fairly far inland; however, it appears the storm is going to hit as a category 4 storm. It will devastate the coast near Corpus Christi if that's the case and it will likely come up through San Antonio as a category 2 in that scenario and probably a category 1 through Austin. I figure that we will likely have either a cat 1 hurricane or a tropical storm here in Austin this weekend. I'm not really panicked about it because I don't think it will cause enough damage here in our area to shut down the entire city and all the suburbs for any extended period of time, though I do think it is possible that we could be without power for a short time. I am waiting to see how many people completely panic and go out and buy up all the bread, water, batteries, canned goods, etc. in anticipation of the storm. I don't think it hurts to buy SOME stuff just in case for any temporary power outage, but I just don't see it being a catastrophic event in Austin. It will; however, be catastrophic to the coast if it hits at that strength. We shall see. There is still enough time for the path of the storm to alter considerably before it hits. But don't panic people!!!! Paranoia and panic will not save you. Oh...and this is a very neat storm tracking site called stormpulse.