Safe and Sound

We made it all safely through the hurricane. After living my whole life on the Gulf coast I had never lived through a hurricane. Please Note!!! It's not something I am proud of. Other than the city of Galveston the other surrounding cities were told Not to evacuate, unless you had special needs or lived in a mobile home. So we did what we were asked to do. As did most everyone in the city.

And just for a little perspective, here's what the street looked like just a few hours before. That's my house on the right at the second white mailbox.
We lost power about 10:30 p.m. and as of now (Monday) we are still without power. It was a wild night and was very scary at times. We all tried to sleep but we took turns getting up and walking outside just to see if we could tell what was going on. Make no mistake we only went as far as the little front porch. At some point I could tell my next door neighbor had a tree down. My eyes noticed a tree going horizontal, I just couldn't tell where it started or stopped.
This is the house directly across the street from us. It probably got the worst damage of the 12 houses on our street. When the rain subsided on Saturday we walked the neighborhood to assess the damage. Here are a few of the things we saw.


We have now evacuated to Nana and Paw Paw's house. They have power and A/C. The kids don't have school until at least Thursday. I personally think the area won't have power until at least Friday. While we were at home we felt totally cut off from the outside world. Even with a radio it was hard to get information. But now that we're here we have been able to watch the news and see just how wide spread the devastation is.
Even though this has been a very big inconvenience we are very grateful to not have suffered any true damage.