Hunker Down

For those who have watched the coverage of Hurricane Ike from outside of Texas, I thought I'd provide a definition of the words hunker down. It seems this is the phrase most used to describe the action taken by those who have stayed in Houston.

Googling the term it means:

squat: sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the ...

take shelter; "During the sandstorm, they hunkered down in a small hut"

hold stubbornly to a position; "The wife hunkered down and the husband's resistance began to break down"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

We plan on hunkering down here in Mansfield where the forcast is for tropical storm winds and 2-4 inches of rain. The hurricane force winds will be about 75 miles south and east of us.

Tomorrow should be great for flying a kite. ;-D