There's a tropical storm in the Gulf, and we in the Houston area know what that means: buy lots of gas; descend like locusts upon your local supermarket/Home Depot/Wal-Mart for water/batteries/candles/shotgun shells; move the pets into the attic; and prepare for widespread looting, vandalism, and cannnibalism.
Edouard will apparently make landfall tomorrow morning as a strong tropical storm or a minimal Category 1 hurricane. Unlike the case of the Rita debacle, I don't think many area residents apart from those on the coast are going to be bugging out. Here are some links for those who, like me, go into Obsessive Storm Tracker mode every time this shit starts up:
Eric Berger's SciGuy blog
Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog
KPRC's hurricane page - I tend to loathe the local news and their usual panic-mode histrionics, but Frank Billingsley is consistently levelheaded. And he has great hair.
My own "hurricane porn" blog entry - Which, in an abject failure of self-promotion, I failed to repost this year
I'd suggest a hurricane party, but I probably have to be at work Wednesday.