The photos with the blue tarp is a neighbor behind us with the large tree that fell during the hurricane. I am sorry to see it fall, but I am glad that it didn't land on anyone's home. In the neighborhood, we had lots of trees down and a few on houses, but I don't think it was major damage and not necessarily where you can't live in. The only other problem that is here now, even though we have power, we had to cook what food we did have and there is no meat in the stores to buy. We are managing, but no idea when food will arrive. We have also been out of school for the week and may not be in next week. We are scheduled to return on Monday, but I think areas of Tomball are still without power and water. I will do my best to keep everyone update.

Here is the damage to our fence and the debris and water in our yard. It wasn't much, but it took a while to clean. We still haven't had any trucks come by and clean up the debris and I don't expect it for a while.

Hurricane Ike

As many know, we went through hurricane Ike on September 12th, and 13th. I believe it was still a Cat 2 when it got inland far enough to hit our area. From what I can tell the eye of the storm went over Splendora and Cleveland and I do have family there that survived the storm. I will plan on posting all the photos, so this will be one big blog. Everyone managed fine. I can handle the hurricane, but I would prefer to have it during the day. The nighttime ones really suck!!

Most of the damage photos are from around the neighborhood and a few from the apartment complex that we used to live at. My house didn't have any damage except our back fence. We did have a concern regarding a 60 ft tree behind our house and the direction of the wind was favorable for it to land across my whole house, but God was watching out for us because it is still standing. I honestly believe that it's because of that tree that we didn't have damage. Just lots of tree limbs and leaves in our yard.

Anyway, feel free to leave comments, I just wanted to show the local damage. I also have photos of the clouds and the sunset the evening before the storm. Anyway, here are the photos that I took. Feel free to comment.