Hurricane Ike

Well, we made it through the storm unscathed. I wish I could say the same for our fence! We watched 24 hour hurricane coverage for a day and a half waiting for Ike to make landfall. We lost electricity at our house at 5 AM on Friday. There were loud bumps and Jeff said he heard sounds like our window was about to break on the left side of our house. This makes sense because that is the side were the fence was demolished. I slept on and off throughout the night, but Jeff was up most of the time. We left the house yesterday afternoon to drive around our neighborhood and see what was open and what damage was done. We saw that many people had fence damage and down tree limbs like us. Then we drove to my parents house to check on them. They also had a portion of their fence down and no electricity. There neighborhood has a lot of mature trees and many of the large branches were broken off and some were uprooted completely.

We returned back to our house, ate some cold left offers and hunkered down again for another night without electricity. At 8 PM we were surprised when the lights and air conditioner came on! We were SO excited, but very aware we were one of the only 115,000 people in the Houston area with power. We were even more aware when we called my parents and there's still was not restored. It still isn't and so it has been a day and a half since they have had air conditioning. My mom, as many of you know, is in a battery operated wheel chair and suffers from MS. MS patients can easily over heat and it can cause exasperations. We are waiting for them to come over here for some reprieve and to recharge my mom's chair, but are praying that their electricity is restored quickly. We simply don't have what she needs (ie: hospital bed and widened door ways) that she needs to stay here. Thanks for all of your continued prayers!