Saturday, September 13, 2008

Hurricane Ike


We didn't loose trees nor have any major structural problems. Ours was just a cleanup effort as you will see in the subsequent pictures. We had Bryce, Rachel & Elias....Heidi, Adam & Jonah along with Becky, Wes and I here in the house. It was warm during the night as the power went off around 10:30pm. We turned the generator on around 8am and the lights finally came on around 2:30pm. The cable (with internet connectivity) was restored around 4:30pm.

The electricity was dicey for about the first 3 hours but seems to be okay now. Most of Houston still is without power as they estimate about 4 million households are powerless tonight. We were lucky since our county (Ft. Bend) was minimally hit by the hurricane so they had the first maintenance crews out who worked to restore power and facilities to Sugar Land and the surrounding communities.

We are all well and held up through the night. It was apparent that the winds were very heavy as they woke us all up most every hour.

1 comment:

Staci said...

Glad you guys weren't hit too hard. Looks like you have some fun clean up projects, but at least it isn't worse!

We are so happy you are ok!

AND your house looks BEAUTIFUL! We need to come visit:)