Stupid Hurricane Ike!!

Well, we survived our first hurricane together. We still don't have power so we took the short drive out to Hempstead where Terri is giving us all the air conditioning we can handle. We brought her all of our food from our fridge and freezer. Overall, we were really lucky we didn't take a direct hit and that Ike travelled slightly east of us. The winds were spectacular and fun to watch but really were scary sounding. There was a constant humming similar to what you might hear with a tornado. We can only assume that this was from the wind. The houses seem to be in good shape in our area, however, as you will notice below, the trees did not survive well.

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This is the view down our street. Our house is on the right where the broken tree has fallen across the street. There was absolutely no way to get down our street with tree after tree across the streets.

These are all the neighbors cleaning up the trees in our yard. We have piles just like this all down the streets from the fallen trees.

This is our tree in the street and the neighbor's tree that fell completely over from the base.

This our backyard with a small limb on our roof. There was no damage, thank goodness, because this tree is HUGE and if it had fallen, we would have been in serious trouble.

This is the sad view of our tree in the front after it lost half of its limbs and all the leaves were shredded off. It doesn't provide much shade anymore.