The front of our house after Ike....
The back of our house before Ike...
The back of our house after Ike.....
Ceiling leak in our bedroom...
The storm blew through Cypress beginning around 1:30 am ...we lost power around 2:00 am. The wind was still blowing hard as late as 10:00 am today and the rain lasted for a few hours after that. So a fence down, lots of leaves and branches and one leak in our master bedroom ceiling seems to be a small price to pay compared to what others are dealing with tonight. Our electricity came back on late this afternoon....but only 3 houses on my side of the street. This happens everytime the neighborhood loses power. The neighbors think it's because Chuck works for CenterPoint.....oh, if he only had that much power (pun intended).
While others chose to get out and start raking and cleaing up the debris, I chose to stay inside and wait until tomorrow. The debris always waits.
PS ..Sunday evening update.....We got the automated call this morning that school has been called off until Thursday. Good news...I can work on my Silver Bella Swaps. Bad news...we will have to make these days up sometime...and on that day there will be alot of complaining.
Will and I spent the entire day raking and bagging up debris. The ENTIRE day. I am very proud of him....as I didn't know he even knew what a rake was. He comes through now and then. Both of us will be downing some Advil before bedtime.
I'm so glad to see it wasn't worse and it looks like you got an extra tree in the front yard from looking at the second picture! You sure Mr. HL&P doesn't have a little pull? I'm sure State Farm will be glad to hear about your fence, the least of their problems. Or is it USAA? Either way, it did look sooooo scary; selfishly I was glad it was during the night so I didn't have to watch it in real time on the weather channel. Fortunately I have my weather wiener here to keep me fully informed. Thanks for the update!
ReplyDeleteSo glad to see you all came out relatively unscathed. At least there is nothing major with the house or trees. The weather channel sure did hype it a lot. They were sending us sever warnings since last Wednesday. In the end we just got rain. Lets hope that was the last one to come to Texas.
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