“Whoops, here it is!” and “Hunker Down!”

I’ve heard some pretty bad Texas lingo in my time but you know you’re in Texas when the people, our government officials and media, who are supposedly educated say things like “Whoops, here it is!” and “Hunker down.” One of the head TxDot guys said on the news this afternoon that we made plans for it to hit the Southern Texas coast but then it began heading East and now “Whoops, here it is!” We had a good laugh about that one. And we keep hearing the weather reporters saying “hunker down”. Our friends that we're staying with in Tomball said that even the grocery store clerk told him "Thanks for shopping at Kleins and hunker down!" That’s so silly but so Texan. It will probably be even worse when we start seeing the interviews. There is always some classic Texas verbiage then.

The latest track shows Ike headed further east now, up to Galveston and maybe Louisiana. Who really knows until it hits land.

I got this storm map from my brother-in-law the other day. I thought it was funny.