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Here it comes. Also, see some nifty models that have borne steadily worsening news for Victoria.

We're still three days from landfall and that's both a lot of time and yet nowhere near enough. However, the show is going to go on as long as possible, which means until headquarters mandates a halt in operations. The only problem is that we can't exactly stop operations on a dime. For instance, we have every intention of engaging in pre-job preparations first thing tomorrow morning for a job that should go the next day. We need to mobilize equipment and cement to location prior to the call-out of the job. Tomorrow afternoon is supposed to be the decision point on whether or not we evacuate but we can't wait that long to prepare for some jobs. Of course, we can move equipment to districts that are further inland and work from there, but that's less than ideal. Some clients near the coast have shut down, but others are further inland and expect the hurricane to have weakened considerably by the time it pushes 100 miles inland.

We've already started to secure the yard and will push quite aggressively tomorrow to finish what is possible this early in the process. Most of it is basic yard clean-up putting things inside, etc. The aggravating part will come when we start to move physical files, lots and lots of paper to interior rooms for protection. Oh the joy.