Ike Hits!

And this time it wasn't Tina.

Georgi watching the storm begin

Holy cow...let me tell you that sustained winds of 50 - 70mph (with much greater gusts) for over 5 hours can begin to wear you down.

I cannot believe all this was happening less than 24 hours ago and I am able to sit here and type this.


We live on the very far west side of Houston, so we never experienced the eye of Ike. We WANTED to experience it just to have a break, but he was looking a little further east and we got nothing but air. Lots and lots and lots of it.

One of two stacks of limbs, branches, and pine cones


The fence is down on two of three sides, we lost tons of branches, and my favorite tree. But, and here's the big BUT...we lived, no flooding, the house held, and we got our power back in only 12 hours.


Now, the cleanup....we need a maid.

The three separate sections of fencing we lost