Hold on to the Ollies!!!!

I just hope the high winds dont put all the corn on the ground, we are about 2 weeks from chopping and that would really suck to have all the corn go down.

Looks like she is supposed to cross the mountains and be here tomorrow about 5pm. We got a lot of work to do this evening and I am leaving work early to get back to the farm and keep battening down, so I will talk to all you guys after the storm.

Anyone whos in the path Hang on!!!!

• The Big lady's path....

I have to hand it to you coast people; I always wanted to move to somewhare more exotic, but hurricanes from Texas to New York, and the west coast always jiggling like a bowl of jello, I think I'll spend what's left of my life here in northern IL., put up with the lousy winters and take my chances with a tornado every now and then!

Any chance you can steer Isable to Wisconsin and Minnesota?

We have been in a swamp most of the summer, getting about an inch a week most of the time. Lot of our early corn flooded out, then the snails got some of it. What did come up now looks really good, but we havent got it in the silos yet. Our hay has been rained on all summer, and if you didnt wet wrap it, it just didnt get dry. We have tracked up fields and gotten tractors stuck all summer, I am sick of pulling tractors out of the mud this year. Our ground is saturated pretty good now, and here comes the hurricane. If we get hit like we are supposed to it will be huge flooding around here. There is just no where for the water to go anymore. Weather guessers are calling for 6 to 10 inches of rain tomorrow night and 30 to 40 MPH winds into and most of the day friday.

Main thing I am worred about is power failure. I really hate running generators all night. The two generators are PTO tractor powered so two of the Ollies will have to be out in the storm cranking out the power if it fails. I am going to try to get the generators hooked up tonight and ready to roll at a moments notice should we have a failure.

Well, Im running out to the farm, thanks for the thoughts, Im sure we will be fine, we have had plenty of time to prepare for this one. Just have to hold on and ride this one out.

Later guys