I logged on here last Friday morning about 4am and we were starting to get some Tropical storm winds. Friday we prepared our front and back yards and got as ready as you can get for a Hurricane. Well, you cannot prepare for this no matter how hard you try.....
At 11:07pm on Friday night we lost power. We still are without power (we are at the in-laws about 1 1/2 hours from Houston). I did not sleep at all that night. When the electricity went out, everything was ok until the neighborhood on our right side had a powerline get struck by a fallen tree and it started lighting up the whole sky and neighborhood in neon blue and it sounded like an alien invasion (basically a air conditioning system trying to get started or when you are welding something together). We made the mistake of opening the blinds and looking right out, our eyes were burning for awhile. The power line finally died and the other neighborhood lost power. We reported it and it still hasn't been looked at. We were on the "nasty side" of the storm. Our front side of the house was battered by rain for about 6 hours and we had water coming through our front door (our house is brand new too so the seals are really good). Basically, IKE was banging on the front door. The eye of the hurricane was right over us about 5am-6:30am. It was the strangest sound I have ever heard. It was dead silence, and I peeked out the front door and it was pitch black, I couldn't even see my garden that was 3 feet away. 6:30am: the storm was coming down worse on the back end of the house. Water started seeping through the windows (which is ok now). 8am, 3 sections of our back fence fell down. During this whole time, we hid in the walk-in closet with the animals. They were just as scared as us. It finally died down around 10am and I took Watson out to use the bathroom. We have a lot of shingles that are gone, a small leak in the roof, back fence needs to be replaced and our tree in the front yard needs to be replaced.
We are very lucky to have very little damage compared to our neighbors in Galveston. My husband's office looks like a war zone-his office is flooded so he is having to office out of his parents house right now. My school district is closed through Wednesday as of right now, and I am waiting to see if my school has any flood damage. We are right next to a bayou. I will post some pictures as soon as I can to this thread. Please continue to pray for all of us. We don't know when we'll get electricity. I am lucky to have a family just far enough away to have power. I finally had a shower-which was the best ever!
Mittens and Watson are here with us too. Just wanted to give you guys an update. Keep Houston, Galveston and surrounding areas in your prayers.
At 11:07pm on Friday night we lost power. We still are without power (we are at the in-laws about 1 1/2 hours from Houston). I did not sleep at all that night. When the electricity went out, everything was ok until the neighborhood on our right side had a powerline get struck by a fallen tree and it started lighting up the whole sky and neighborhood in neon blue and it sounded like an alien invasion (basically a air conditioning system trying to get started or when you are welding something together). We made the mistake of opening the blinds and looking right out, our eyes were burning for awhile. The power line finally died and the other neighborhood lost power. We reported it and it still hasn't been looked at. We were on the "nasty side" of the storm. Our front side of the house was battered by rain for about 6 hours and we had water coming through our front door (our house is brand new too so the seals are really good). Basically, IKE was banging on the front door. The eye of the hurricane was right over us about 5am-6:30am. It was the strangest sound I have ever heard. It was dead silence, and I peeked out the front door and it was pitch black, I couldn't even see my garden that was 3 feet away. 6:30am: the storm was coming down worse on the back end of the house. Water started seeping through the windows (which is ok now). 8am, 3 sections of our back fence fell down. During this whole time, we hid in the walk-in closet with the animals. They were just as scared as us. It finally died down around 10am and I took Watson out to use the bathroom. We have a lot of shingles that are gone, a small leak in the roof, back fence needs to be replaced and our tree in the front yard needs to be replaced.
We are very lucky to have very little damage compared to our neighbors in Galveston. My husband's office looks like a war zone-his office is flooded so he is having to office out of his parents house right now. My school district is closed through Wednesday as of right now, and I am waiting to see if my school has any flood damage. We are right next to a bayou. I will post some pictures as soon as I can to this thread. Please continue to pray for all of us. We don't know when we'll get electricity. I am lucky to have a family just far enough away to have power. I finally had a shower-which was the best ever!