The Texas sky just following the storm:
So, we successfully rode out our first hurricane. It felt like an earthquake, except it lasted for hours. It was a long and scary night for us first-timers, but thankfully the kids slept through it in our walk-in closet away from most of the noise and movement. Just as we were pulling the BBQ out of the garage to grill up some of our rapidly thawing meat Saturday afternoon, our power came back on after only 12 hours or so of being out. We were prepared for several hot days without power, but fortunately we have underground power lines and small trees. Despite some minimal damage, our neighborhood came through fairly unscathed.
We feel very blessed, especially as we watch the news of many of the other neighborhoods of Houston and the coastal cities and the extensive damage and flooding they have. School and work are canceled for a couple days at least. Our own suburb is scattered with numerous trees entirely uprooted, tree limbs down, debris throughout the streets, fences down, street and building signs knocked over, even a roof blown off a building. It also appears that most of the area still doesn't have power. It's crazy, and we're probably one of the better off areas. It's amazing how powerful the wind and water can be and all the spiritual/life analogies about storms, weathering the storm, being deeply rooted, etc. seem to have much more meaning to us now!
12 comments:
So glad to hear you are safe! I thought about you all weekend! Let's hope that's the worst of them!
I'm so glad you guys are okay! I've been thinking about you along with my other family and friends in the area. It's amazing that you have power. Sounds like it may be a couple of weeks for some areas. We've been lucky b/c our satelitte tv is carrying a local Houston news channel and we've been able to watch and see everything that's going on.
Funny story-the house I grew up in in Conroe had two of the trees from the front yard fall through the house and land in the stairwell. Word is the house is in such bad shape now that it may just have to be demolished! Crazy!
Anyways, again I'm glad you and your family are doing great!
Glad to hear you guys are doing okay and that things are slowly returning to normal. Our power was out during Tropical Storm Fay for 20 hours. Thank goodness you guys were prepared to be without power!
So glad you're okay! LOVE the life and spiritual analogies. You ALWAYS have a wonderful way of looking at (and learning from) everything!
You're such a trooper! Glad to know that you're all safe!
I have been thinking about you and your family since the storm hit. SO glad that you weathered the storm without too much drama. I agree with Annie, you are always recognizing life's lessons and embracing them! Love ya.
Good! Just thinking about you. I am so glad to hear all is well and that you made it through just fine.
glad to see you made it through that storm, when we saw the path our thoughts went to you and your family!! The clean up in never fun, we had our share when we lived in Alabama, but we were always thankful that we did not have to pull a tree out of our house! We were always blessed! Oh thought you would get a kick out of this....Our family has been asked to speak in sacrament meeting in 2 weeks, talk about crash course in Portuguese!! I think they want me to have a heart attack!! Marcus is going to translate some for me but he wants me to say a few things in Portuguese, should be funny!! I'll update you.
Glad you and your family are safe.
We were thinking of you guys. Glad you're okay!
You're the ones we thought about through that whole storm! Glad you made it through and with minimal effects!
I'm so glad to hear you are all right and that you didn't have to suffer much!
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