Hurricane Ike!

On the early morning of September 13th, Hurricane Ike hit the Gulf Coast of Houston. As they say here, we "hunkered" down at David's parents house with their 3 cats and our 2 cats and our dog. After the storm, we went home to assess the damage. We were afraid that the giant pine tree in our neighbors yard would fall on our house, but we were lucky. We had minimal damage, our back fence fell and our mailbox. It was bound to happen from all the times that David has weed whacked the pole.

We stayed at David's parents house until Saturday, one week after the hurricane hit. We were on generator power from Saturday till about Wednesday morning at 3:45 AM. The generator kept the refigerator cold and the fan going. We were also able to watch t.v. Our power was restored on Saturday at about 11:30 AM. Our animals were so happy to go home and Alex was excited to play in her room. It was nice to have somewhere we could stay cool and have food to eat. You really appreciate all you have when these things happen.




Our front tree had some branches down, but really we were lucky. Our neighbors had both trees fall and toward their house. Our neighborhood is about 30 years old and has old trees, and a lot of them fell on houses here.

We are now going to work on getting our fence put back up, so Roxy won't go find a new place to live. David put up a new pretty mailbox on Sunday, now we won't have to go wait in line at the post office.

All-in-all, we have been blessed by the limited damage and a lot of great people around us for support.