Tree down in my Front Yard
EDIT: Pictures
EDIT: More Pictures 6:45 PM 9/13/08
Well, if you’ve been paying attention to the news, Hurricane Ike came through the Houston area this weekend. I have lived here for some years, and I’ve never had a storm this bad. Of course, the only other hurricane we’ve been through was Rita, but we didn’t have any damage then. As you can see from the picture, though, we have some damage this time. The tree in the picture used to stand in our front yard, but now it’s fallen down across our driveway. We had our cars parked in the driveway, and fortunately saw that the tree was going to come down. We took the risk and moved our cars into the street, and made it ok. 5 minutes later, the tree came down. While we were outside, we saw that there were a number of trees down on our street. Also, we have a tree down in our backyard that looks like it crashed through our fence.
The power is out right now, but our recent generator purchase is allowing us access to power, internet, TV and coffee. It’s been a long night, but it looks like we’re all going to be ok now. I’ll try and post more pictures as I get them, and post more information as I find it out.
UPDATE:
Debris on Street
After the storm died down, we went outside and started to take a look at the damage, and it’s worse then we thoguht. There was a tree down across the road, blocking most of the cul-de-sac in. After a while, all the neighbors started coming out and we all got to work on removing the debris. We didn’t have any chain saws right away, so we went at the trees with hacksaws. Eventually we were able to get some chainsaws and were able to clear out the big trees. The tree was so heavy without chopping it that we didn’t have a rope strong enough to pull the log from a truck hitch.
We all worked together to get the trees cleared and tonight we’re having a few folks over to celebrate making it through without loss of life. We really feel blessed to have so many trees down and not have anyone injured. For those of you who have been praying for us, we thank you and hope you all are doing well.
