Post Hurricane Update

All of the family down here, including us, are fine. The only damage was a tree from a neighbor's yard that fell into our back yard. Nothing happened to the rent house. We are still without power, but are hoping to get it back before this weekend. We will try to upload some of the photos soon so you can see what happened in our area. Addison has been a real champ during this, despite the lack of air conditioning and disruption of her schedule.

Friday Afternoon Update

So today has been uneventful. We woke up and this is what it looked like .

You could hear our neighbors up and at it this morning, a few boarded up while others were bringing stuff from the outside, inside their houses.

We checked the news out and nothing had change. We then decided to go on a walk and I decided to document considering it is mine and Addison's first hurricane. I took some before shots. This is the sky.

This is our street. It was very humid but otherwise a very pretty day. We saw a few others out walking/running this morning. It seems like quite a few people stayed in town.

By now we were suppost to have tropical storm winds from the outer bands with winds around 35 mph. We haven't seen any of it so far. Galveston is already starting to flood and the hurricane is still pretty far from landing. The hurricane is a Category 2 but the water surge is a Category 4-5, 18-20 foot tall surge. They are saying they eye should hit Galveston as a Category 1, which is better than the Category 3 that was orginally predicted, but that can all change.

Here is a picture that was just taken from our house. The sky has been gray since around lunchtime. We had a little sprinkle that lasted about 3 minutes.

On the Addison front I took some pictures of her knee walking around the house today. They aren't the best pictures. Ignore the box in the background. I am working on clearing stuff out to donate to charity.

Pictures

Since I had the day off due to Hurricane Ike, I decided to upload all the pictures we have from March to now. There are over 200 pictures now on the shutterfly link. It took well over an hour to do, but what else what I going to do? The news is repetitive..."Hurricane Ike is coming to get you. Stay put. Have supplies. Streets are clogged...." blah blah blah.

Yes yes. Hurricane Ike is coming to get us. We had planned on going to Dallas for the weekend to visit the house, but Ike has changed those plans. According to the news, Galveston should see tropical storm winds, which is basically the bands of Ike, around 2pm tomorrow. I believe the hurricane winds are suppose to hit Galveston around 8-10pm tomorrow night and then the eye is suppose to hit around 2 am Saturday morning. We are about 2-3 hours behind Galveston. So we should see the tropical storm winds/weather sometime tomorrow late afternoon/evening. All of that can change overnight as we have seen before with these hurricanes.

I'm not really sure who all in our neighborhood is left. They told people that aren't in the mandatory evacuation zones (coastal areas) to stay put so the roads don't get clogged up, but you know people. They always want to leave the dangerzone ("highway to the danger zone..." sorry had to sing). We saw a few people loading up their cars and some were even boarding up their houses. All we did was go to the store and bring the stuff from outside inside. Oh, and we managed to make room in the garage to park Mike's car. Yeay! I went to the store today and it was packed. I was lucky to find a parking spot and a basket. They had plenty of stuff left on the shelves when I went around 930-10am. The lines were the longest part of that adventure. I stood in line for 30-45 minutes. Everyone was real nice and friendly considering we were all staying in the dangerzone :) When I left the store, people made up parking spots and were even parked in the street. I couldn't believe it. I was glad to be done with that part of my day.

We are on the "dirty" side which is where the damaging winds/tornadoes/rain/flooding comes from. The news is predicting most of the Houston area might see top wind speeds of 95-100 mph. I'm not thrilled about the winds. I would be okay with losing power, but I'm not okay with 100mph winds.

They are now saying that most of the beaches that is not protected by the seawall no longer have beaches. The beach water has raised about one foot so far and Ike is 400 miles out!!!

I don't have much else to say. Just keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we live through this Hurricane. This will be my first, and Addison as well (obviously). I will try to update our situation either through the blogger (as long as we have power) or just by keeping in touch with our families.

We love everyone. <3