Hurrican Ike- September 13 2008

Here are some pics from the hurricane. I will say that I don't think John is going to be excited anymore if a hurricane is ever headed our way again. I am planning on doing one of those blog books so I kinda wanted to just memo (for my own sake what happened)

September 12th....I was in bed and at 12:54am talking to my parents who were in Alaska telling them it really wasn't that bad and that the little tree in our front yard was barely moving.

1:30am my parents told me goodnight and I sat up in bed watching t.v. waiting for Ike to "bring it on."

3:00am I had no more t.v. because of the weather, but the little tree in front was still doing ok.

3:34am our power went out. I got up to look at the tree and it was going around in circles nearly touching the ground. I went back to bed and sat there and just listened. I remember hearing the wind and the awful sounds it made. Awful comes to mind because I was terrified. (What is a tornado comes....my daughter and husband are in other rooms.....how am I going to get them both into the closet in time.....how can I keep my family safe.)

4:00am I went and woke John up (yes he was sleeping) and told him how scared I was and made him get out of bed.

5:00am I finally told him I was ok and I went to bed.

7:00am I woke up and John, Addy and I went out to see the damage. Yes....we were that curious. Plus we had to go to my parents house to fix the roof because a tree was in their bedroom.

All in all I feel we were extremely blessed in this situation. We went without power for 1 week and 1 day, but had a generator and a window a/c unit. It really wasn't that bad. We just pray that people who were less fortunate will be back on their feet in no time.

We didn't pose her for this. I love the candid photos.

On the way to check out the store.

This was on kuykendahl for a week. We had no other option than to drive under it if we wanted to get anywhere.
This is our little friend who sadly didn't survive the hurricane. It's a sphinx moth cocoon in case you were wondering. :)