And, the clean-up afterward. (This is NOT my parent's house, but another house in the neighborhood. Can you see how much damage it would have done, had the tree gone the other way. Sheezzz)
Well, Hurricane Ike has come and gone what a scary weekend! Watching the news on TV has been so eye opening as to all the destruction it has done to our home town.
We first want to thank all our Dallas friends that have called to check on us!! Your generousity and friendship always continues to amaze us. We definitely feel loved!
We decided to ride out the storm here at my parents. We weren't near any evacuation areas and my parents live about an hour from the coast. Most people in these areas ended up staying. About 2 o'clock on Friday/Saturday morning the winds started howling around here. We had 80 mph winds and you could tell when you watched the trees bend and contort in all different ways. We had all hunkered down in my parents bedroom because they have HUGE pine trees and we didn't want to be upstairs if those feel on the house or if there was a tornado. I think we all probably would have slept more if HURRICANE AVERY would have let us. She howled and cried all night. (They are both still trying to get over being sick). Luckily Lil' Pete slept throught he whole thing. But, just about the time I got Avery to sleep our little friend the "stomach bug" reared it's ugly head again. Daddy Pete got it and it come on with full force.
We have spent the last couple of days keeping him away from everyone and at the same time trying to take care of him and the kids. They are still super fussy from being sick themselves and we are hoping that will let up sometime soon.
When the morning came and we could finally go out and survey the damage, we realized how blessed and lucky we had been. My parents neighborhood faired really well and since they have underground electricity lines we never really lost power. The streets and yards were littered with branches and a few of the house around here lost WHOLE 30-40 ft pine trees. I never saw it but my parents said it was a sobering sight to see those whole trees, roots and all, ripped out of the ground. It made us say a prayer and realize how lucky we had been.
As for the rest of Houston. Whew. . . it is really a horrible thing for a lot of people. We are having a hard time reaching some of our friends because of cell phones and lines that are down. The flooding that is going on is really spectacular, but not in a good way. We are wondering about our "new" area that we are moving to in a few months. Some of those areas are not even letting people onto the streets yet. We will just have to wait and see what's happening there.
Below are some of the pictures that we took. Not too many pictures were taken once Mr. Stomach Bug hit Pete, because needless to say we were all busy. Also, Hurricane Ike ushered in the babies 9 month birthday! What a way to celebrate. I'll post their "birthday stats" in a later post!!
Pete loved sitting and tracking the hurricane with Grandpa.
These next few are from Grandpa and Nana's "Evacuation Shelter". You can see Pete sitting in front of the boarded up. And then both of them loved playing on the bed we brought down for us to sleep on.
Trying to catch a few "z's" before the storm hit.
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