Take a hike Ike!
Our wonderful house suffered no damage at all when Hurricane Ike hit Houston a few weeks ago. We our praising the Lord because we know how damaging this storm was to so many people in our city. I can't get the song "Praise you in this storm" by Casting Crowns out of my head these days. We left Pearland at noon on the Friday before the storm hit. Scott and I went back and forth on whether or not to leave which actually sounds quite crazy to me in hind sight. I think we were both terrified of having another 14 hour drive to Austin like we did during the hurricane Rita evacuation. When we woke up on Friday morning, neither of us felt right about staying so we took that as God's way of letting us know we should go. We drove to Austin (it only took us 4 hours YEAH!) and stayed with my sister and brother in law. We had a fun weekend visit but lots of anxiety about what was happening at our house. Not to mention, Kirby the cat also made the trip to Austin with us which didn't help ease our anxiety level. After expecting to be without power for a couple of weeks, we had power at our home in Pearland within 48 hours of the storm. Amazing!
Our wonderful house suffered no damage at all when Hurricane Ike hit Houston a few weeks ago. We our praising the Lord because we know how damaging this storm was to so many people in our city. I can't get the song "Praise you in this storm" by Casting Crowns out of my head these days. We left Pearland at noon on the Friday before the storm hit. Scott and I went back and forth on whether or not to leave which actually sounds quite crazy to me in hind sight. I think we were both terrified of having another 14 hour drive to Austin like we did during the hurricane Rita evacuation. When we woke up on Friday morning, neither of us felt right about staying so we took that as God's way of letting us know we should go. We drove to Austin (it only took us 4 hours YEAH!) and stayed with my sister and brother in law. We had a fun weekend visit but lots of anxiety about what was happening at our house. Not to mention, Kirby the cat also made the trip to Austin with us which didn't help ease our anxiety level. After expecting to be without power for a couple of weeks, we had power at our home in Pearland within 48 hours of the storm. Amazing!
Scott spent all day on Thursday boarding up the windows of our house. It was a big job!
The little tree in the middle of our cul-de-sac was blown down, but the trees in our yard were standing tall (well, slightly crooked)!
Along with a couple of missing shingles, this was the only thing on our house that showed signs of being hit by a hurricane.
