Yes, I'm still alive
Sep. 20th, 2005 07:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
queenrileyI know it's been forever since I posted. I'm still alive. Not comfortable, not happy, not allowed to do ANYTHING but sit here and do, well, nothing... but I am still alive.
Baby is due in 2 weeks. I expect him to arrive this weekend, however. Why, you might ask?
Well it appears Mother Nature hates the Gulf Coast, as we're looking at getting yet another hurricane. Rita is expected to be a Catagory 3 by the time it hits the Texas coast and most models are having it head towards Galveston/Houston. New Orleans has been re-evacuated, Galveston is being evacuated as we speak, and Houston is bracing itself for a Catagory 3 Hurricane to hit it.
THAT, my dears, is how I know I will have this baby this weekend, when Rita hits. I'm so close to being due, showing so many signs of having him early (contracting rather painfully quite a lot, which makes my doctor nervous, but things are holding up okay in order to keep him in a little longer and not warrant an immediate c-section... we'll see what he says about how I'm holding up Thursday). I have Hurricane babies, apparently.
Alex was born during Tropical Storm Allison. Okay, so technically it wasn't a hurricane, it was a tropical storm, but it devestated Houston. It did millions of dollars worth of damage (about $5 million, to be exact). It was deadlier than Hurricane Alicia which hit in 1983 and killed 21 people. Allison did TWICE as much damage to Houston as Alicia did. It dropped almost 40 inches of rain on Houston alone. In some parts of the area I live, you can STILL, 4 years later, see signs of the damage Allison did. Most of Houston, including downtown and the northeast area (in which I live), spent that weekend under water.
How did I spend the weekend? In the hospital! Having Alex. Allison hit and did the most damage on June 8, 2001. Alex was born on June 8, 2001. I was in labor watching the storm roll in. She came out, via c-section, as the storm raged. Visitors that night were flooded out. Some had to stay in the hospital, others were able to get hotels. Very few people were lucky enough to make it home that night, through the rain and floodwaters. But me? I was safe and sound locked up in about the only hospital in the area that was actually able to keep power.
So. What do we have heading for us? What do we have expected to hit this Friday/Saturday, one week before I'm due with my second child? Hurricane Rita. Another hurricane. Another flood producing, damange inducing, millions-of-dollars recovery project inducing storm.
I feel bad for the people of New Orleans. They just went through this with their own city. Their new home city, Houston, is now about to get hit by a hurricane. These people just can't seem to win this hurricane season. I think we should all just evacuate the Gulf Coast and come back when hurricane season is over. Mother Nature obviously has it in for us like she did for Florida last year.
So yeah, I expect this baby will be born this weekend.
Baby is due in 2 weeks. I expect him to arrive this weekend, however. Why, you might ask?
Well it appears Mother Nature hates the Gulf Coast, as we're looking at getting yet another hurricane. Rita is expected to be a Catagory 3 by the time it hits the Texas coast and most models are having it head towards Galveston/Houston. New Orleans has been re-evacuated, Galveston is being evacuated as we speak, and Houston is bracing itself for a Catagory 3 Hurricane to hit it.
THAT, my dears, is how I know I will have this baby this weekend, when Rita hits. I'm so close to being due, showing so many signs of having him early (contracting rather painfully quite a lot, which makes my doctor nervous, but things are holding up okay in order to keep him in a little longer and not warrant an immediate c-section... we'll see what he says about how I'm holding up Thursday). I have Hurricane babies, apparently.
Alex was born during Tropical Storm Allison. Okay, so technically it wasn't a hurricane, it was a tropical storm, but it devestated Houston. It did millions of dollars worth of damage (about $5 million, to be exact). It was deadlier than Hurricane Alicia which hit in 1983 and killed 21 people. Allison did TWICE as much damage to Houston as Alicia did. It dropped almost 40 inches of rain on Houston alone. In some parts of the area I live, you can STILL, 4 years later, see signs of the damage Allison did. Most of Houston, including downtown and the northeast area (in which I live), spent that weekend under water.
How did I spend the weekend? In the hospital! Having Alex. Allison hit and did the most damage on June 8, 2001. Alex was born on June 8, 2001. I was in labor watching the storm roll in. She came out, via c-section, as the storm raged. Visitors that night were flooded out. Some had to stay in the hospital, others were able to get hotels. Very few people were lucky enough to make it home that night, through the rain and floodwaters. But me? I was safe and sound locked up in about the only hospital in the area that was actually able to keep power.
So. What do we have heading for us? What do we have expected to hit this Friday/Saturday, one week before I'm due with my second child? Hurricane Rita. Another hurricane. Another flood producing, damange inducing, millions-of-dollars recovery project inducing storm.
I feel bad for the people of New Orleans. They just went through this with their own city. Their new home city, Houston, is now about to get hit by a hurricane. These people just can't seem to win this hurricane season. I think we should all just evacuate the Gulf Coast and come back when hurricane season is over. Mother Nature obviously has it in for us like she did for Florida last year.
So yeah, I expect this baby will be born this weekend.