IKE made us say "yikes!!"

Well, we survived IKE- we lost our pwer very early on, before the storm even started at 9 PM Friday night. I had just gotten into the shower because I had a sneaking feeling the lights would be going out soon. Sure enough, as I was shaving my legs, it goes black in the whole house.

So I manage to get out ok, and get myself together. Brian and I knew it was only a matter of time until it went out, we just didn't think it would go that fast. We had planned to ride out the storm at our house, but then decided it was going to get way too hot with two little ones, so we packed our million and one things for the kids and headed to Neika's to ride it out. Probably a good decision, since she didn't lose power until 5 AM. We of course didn't sleep, but the kids slept right through it!

It started getting really bad about 3 AM when trees started crashing all around the house. An hour later, Brian's truck was the victim of IKE. The damage is better than we thought, but the tree (pics below), smashed his left side and shattered the windshield. I think I was more upset about it than he was- he was very calm and said, " It's just a truck. It can be fixed." Yes, he's right but when you see a huge part of a pine tree sitting on top of a truck we just bought in June, your gut sinks.

So IKE just got uglier, but overall, the damage to our house was nothing in comparison to the rest in the neighborhood. We got power back last night after we spent all day cleaning the yard. :>)




This was one of the trees at Neika's house that got hit hard...about 3 AM, we heard a loud crack and then heard a tree crashing down. We ran to the back door to see and noticed this one, it split to the right first and landed on the tree to the right of it, but blocked the back door.


These are some of the other trees from Neika's that got hit hard...their yard was completely flooded. If you look at the swingset in one of the pictures, you can see the water level is just below the swing.



This is just one of the many houses in our neighborhood that lost very mature trees. Our house went untouched, like a bubble was around it, and we are thanking our lucky stars...all over our neighborhood, people lost their trees and had them laying on top of their houses and cars. We couldn't believe that all we had was a leaning fence and a dirty pool. Thank you Jesus!