We Survived Ike!

It has been a long couple of weeks but we are getting closer to being normal again. Hurricane Ike hit with a fury early on the morning of September 13th. We weathered the storm at the house with Laura. It was a long night and it was really scary. We lost power about 1 AM and we were without power for 11 days. We lost about 6 trees, one falling on the house. Luckily it did not fall into the home and within an hour the wind had blown it off the house. We have some roof damage, but it will hold until we can get someone to fix it. As you can imagine, contractors are in really high demand right now. The eye passed directly over us, an odd calm in such a scary night. Half of our front fence was blown into the swimming pool, two trees fell on the storage shed, and two more trees fell on our back fence and the power lines. In the grand scheme of things, we were very fortunate. We are all safe and our home is liveable. Many others lost so much more. We have power again and we are working to get our home in order again. Thanks for your concern during this difficult time for us. Below are some photos of our once beautiful yard.

Waiting on Ike!

Hello Family and Friends:

As I am sure many of you know, Hurricane Ike is headed straight towards Galveston and Houston. We are expecting tropical storm force winds as of tomorrow afternoon and then hurricane force winds as of tomorrow night. The hurricane is expected to make landfall by 1 AM Saturday morning. In our area, we are expecting winds of 90 - 120 miles per hour as well as 5-10 inches of rain. We have all of our supplies and we plan to ride out the storm at home. We will most definitely lose power so we will not have internet access or regular phone connections. If you need to call us, our cell phones are the best option. We will send an update as soon as we can.