Put all of your personal papers in a water tight container.

Be sure you have a life vest and/or other floatation device.

If you have family and friends that are with you, they need to have floatation devices too. Also, a rope is a good thing to have on hand as you may want to use it to keep everyone connected, a life line as you try to get out of the surge.

Put some dry clothing for everyone and some blankets in a sealed bag or container and put them in the attic (this can be used as a floation device).

Put the floatation device(s), the rope, the container with your papers, some food and water, your container/bag with your dry clothing in your attic. Oh, don't forget your crank radio and your flashlights (I only buy flashlights that float now.)

Make sure your entrance to your attic is accessible. Also put an ax or a shotgun in your attic, you may need one of them to shot/chop a hole in your roof to get out of if the water keeps rising.

Ike's surge is affecting the MS Gulf Coast and has been for two days now. The storm is over 300 miles to our SW and it is being felt here.

Take it from a Katrina Survivor that had to fight the surge to save family members - you need to be prepared and ready for anything. You cannot know what the surge will do and until you experience a surge like what Ike appears to be packing, you can't imagine how scarey and dangerous it is. Think of a huge bulldozer pushing the water to you, that is what you have with Ike.

I'm not making this shit up - Katrina surge videos I took

From the second floor window
http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e338/det...

Inside the house
http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e338/det...

GET OUT IF YOU CAN - If you can't, be prepared for the worse and then after the storm you can come back and make fun of me for being such a ninny.