Hurricane Ike

We survived Hurricane Rita three years ago and here we are again with Hurricane Ike. It's just unbelievable that a storm can travel as far inland as we are and still be a catagory 1 hurricane.






















Jack was a baby during Hurricane Rita, but this time he enjoyed helping us cook outside on the grill. It has a burner on one side, so we were able to cook everything that we normally would inside. It just takes longer with one burner instead of four. This was beef tips and rice that we were cooking for lunch one day.




















It was hot in our room at night so we moved matresses to the living room and slept in there with the windows and front door open. We all slept in the same room because the kids didn't want to be in the dark by themselves. Luckily for us a cool front came through the next day and cooled everything off for us.
















I don't know if you can tell from this picture or not, but this is one huge tree that we have in our yard. It is about 16 feet around at the base.




















This is the other side of the tree. One of the limbs fell in our neighbors yard. The limb is as big as most trees. We were so afraid when we heard it that it had landed on their garage, but it missed it and their truck too.
















This is in a neighbor's yard at the end of our road.














This huge tree was one of the few trees left on the school campus. They removed a lot of others when building new buildings a few years back.
















More limbs down in our yard.





















Here are some refugees that Richard found after the storm: two baby squirrels that lost their mother. The kids have been feeding them milk with a medicine dropper.

We were very blessed that there wasn't much damage in our area. It was mostly trees down. Not too much damage to buildings or people injured. Our power is back on now. God is good!