We survived Ike!!!!!

Ike has officially come and gone. He has left his mark, too. The past two days my parents, Tim and I have spent cleaning up the yard. They had two trees uprooted in the backyard. Fortunately, they fell into the yard and not on the house! Of course there are tons and tons of twigs and leaves down, all of which require raking. We amazingly only lost power. Their landline phone still works and there is running water! You are probably wondering how in the world I'm able to blog tonight, but miraculously the power came back up about an hour ago. There won't be power at my apartment for weeks (saw downed power lines, chopped in half this afternoon!), so I might just be camping out here for awhile.

I got to travel around town a little yesterday and again today to go to my dad's office to see the cats and take care of them. What a mess there is to clean up yet. It's amazing what Mother Nature can do to a town.

Tim and I also traveled to the apartment this afternoon to check things out. It is fine as well. I talked to the people who live below me, and they said the water came close to coming in but backed off just in time. Although I wouldn't have suffered water damage since I live on the second floor.

Clear Creek ISD is closed indefinately. I have to say I'm not surprised since most of Kemah and Seabrook were completely underwater and these two communities are in our school district. I called our school receptionist, who works and lives across the street from school, and it appears that our building (from the outside) seems to be fine.

Tomorrow entales more cleaning at the house, and if I can, travel to the church to help the skeleton crew start cleaning it up. Aparently it suffered some sever damage. I say if I can travel since the city of Webster is under lock and key with getting residents back in their community. They are urging them not to come home yet since the debris on the road is supposedly terrible.

I'll try and get some pics to post, for those of you who have NEVER seen the aftermath nor experienced a hurricane first hand.

Have a great week!
Thanks be to God for protecting us during Ike.