Hmm. Apparently you can hardly get into the grocery store and if you do, there’s nothing left. I assume Austin is fairly safe, otherwise evacuees from elsewhere wouldn’t be coming here. All the evacuee centres are full up. People are coming here to shop because other towns are empty, though. But we can expect terrible weather in the next few days and, living in a little wooden house, maybe damage. Power will probably go out some time. Luckily I have lots of IKEA tea-lights. Hmm again.

So, hopefully a big tree won’t come through a window and kill us Saturday night, and I guess we’re going out soon to try and buy a few things to eat and drink in case we’re hiding indoors a couple of days, which I imagine will be tins of Mexican beans and the flavour of fizzy pop that nobody likes.

I was wondering why people build these little wooden houses that turn to matchsticks in a storm, in places where there are storms. Then I realised it’s because they’re cheap to replace. Very comforting.

Update: the grocery store was fine, I don’t know what all the fuss was about. There wasn’t much bottled water but I bought Mexican fizzy pop anyway. Did you know it comes in guava and tamarind? How cool is that?