IKE

Photos from our neighborhood, Carin's neighborhood and surrounding area.

Ike has come and gone, but left too, too much evidence of it's passing. We are feeling really fortunate to all be safe and sound and only have a little damage to our roof (just a few shingles to replace). But it is hard to wrap my mind around the damage that is all around. Mostly the damage to cities along the coast like Galveston and then Houston, and I've only seen pictures and news coverage of that. We have seen the impact that Ike has had in our neighborhood, neighborhoods surrounding us, and on the roads. Luckily our neighborhood doesn't have any tall trees, so it wasn't too messy here other than shingles and other debris to pick up. But in many of the other surrounding areas where there are a lot of tall foresty trees, it's pretty messy. There are trees fallen on houses, cars, power lines, and the streets. Plus flooding on the roads and some neighborhoods, which has mostly gone away.

We had our power restored on Sunday afternoon, but there are still a lot of people (people the next block over from us, so we are lucky!) and businesses without power. Carin and Danelle's families are still waiting for power in their neighborhoods. One of the biggest blessings throughout these last few days is that the weather has been nice and cool. And since there are still many, many people without power, it's helping.

Gas and certain groceries are still hard to come by. We went to the grocery store (where we waited in line to get in because they are trying to keep it controlled) yesterday to try and get Trev some milk, but there is nothing in the refrigerated/frozen section at all. You can get bread and canned goods, but all the shelves are totally picked over. Although, I heard that Carin got some cheese and hot dogs today, so it sounds like things are getting better every day. Lines for gas stations are really long, I saw on the news today that some people were waiting for 5 hours. There have been fights breaking out and I heard this morning that there was a shooting at one.

So, it's still pretty crazy around here, even though we personally are doing just fine and have not been seriously impacted. So we're just hanging in there and feeling very blessed to be safe and sound and have our power back on.