After Ike

Well, we survived Ike. Actually we slept through his visit. I heard some wind around 4am, but went back to sleep until 7am.

We woke up to find quite a mess. It rained and rained and rained, but we finally were able to survey the damage around 4pm. We were very lucky.

Our back fence was knocked down and we had a huge mess of limbs and debris in the yard. The pool was completely full and disgusting. Thankfully I can let the pool dude handle that one.

We did get to drive around The Woodlands and soon realized just how lucky we were. Several streets, including cul-de-sacs, were blocked with massive trees that had been pulled up by the roots and laying across the roads. The streets that weren't blocked usually had major flooding. The rivers and drainage ways were full if not overflowing.

Several houses had trees that had fallen on them. The worst was just off I45 were a giant metal billboard had fallen onto an apartment complex and smashed the top floor.

We took several pics of the mess in The Woodlands which I will post tomorrow.

The electricity was out when we woke up at 7, causing us to have no news of what was going on around town. The radio stations gave very little real information because they concentrated on callers complaining about this or that. You know, I hate to sound harsh, but I really don't care if Jim Bob's tree fell in his back yard. I want to know when the electricity is expected to come on, when we will hear about schools resuming, where the storm is, etc.

We stuck it out until 5pm then decided that it was stupid for us to just sit there in the heat while the freezer defrosts and we go stir-crazy. So we left for Dallas, electricity and sanity.

You all probably know more than I do of what happened with Ike. I still have not had time to seriously google the storm. We have been kicking our feet up and eating real food.

I'll try to spend some time tomorrow getting some details and post ASAP.