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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Hurricane Ike from our house

Where to begin? Last Thursday morning I was sitting on the couch glued to the Hurricane Ike coverage on the news. You could tell it was serious because they had interrupted all regular programming to cover the storm on all the local channels. I was concerned for my Friend Addie who lives in Corpus and sent over a text to let her know she could stay with us if she needed to. By the afternoon the hurricane track had updated and it was inching closer and closer to the Galveston area.










The news was telling our area to hunker down with enough supplies to last 3-5 days in case of power outages. I had compiled a list of stuff we needed but had resistance to go buy it. In the middle of the night Thursday, I got out of bed to pack our bags. I couldn't sleep and decided it was better to drive up to Dallas now rather than after our power was out.


We watched the storm on Fox News Channel from Ricky's parent's house. The next day we woke up to see the damage and heard of all the power outages. It took a day to get a hold of our neighbor to find out what our neighborhood was like and if we had power. Our neighborhood was hit harder than I imagined it could being an hour and a half from the coast. Blue tarps line the roof tops up and down every street. Every other house has their carpet ripped out and on the curb. There are fences down everywhere, trees, and tons of debris. The pictures I took were taken six days after the storm, after most everything was cleaned up.


We were very lucky compared to our neighbors. Our only damage was the fence, which we are waiting for the insurance to come out and look at and minimal flooding to our master bedroom and bathroom.


It is all so surreal looking at the pictures on the news of all of the devastation. Many people are still without power (803, 000 people to be exact.) The news stations here are still doing continuous coverage of the impact and what to do now.


My heart goes out to all of those people who lost their homes and to those who lost family members. You don't think about how something like this has such a huge impact on lives until you see it first hand.












































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