Granted, we live 100 miles from the coast, but we did feel a "mini" version of the storm.
It was strange that night - September 13, 2008 -- everybody was in their houses because everything had shut down. All the neighbors were in their yards and we gathered together and talked and in some cases met neighbors that we hadn't yet met. We all talked about what we did to "batten down our hatches" and we all wondered what the storm was going to bring to our neighborhood.
As it grew dark, we all went into our houses and wouldn't emerge until the storm was over. The storm knocked out our power about 3am -- so that meant no more TV coverage. We hated that part. Cris, Aaron, and I had blankets and beds in the living room so we could watch the TV and see what was happening around the city. Once we lost that -- we just sat in the dark and listened to the crashing of things outside from the high winds.
The winds finally died down about 8am and little by little people started coming out of their houses and looking to see what damage had been done. We were pretty lucky, here are a few pictures of what we saw.
We stacked the cars up on the lawn and as close to the house as we could. Our street floods and we didn't want to lose any of our cars.
Have no idea who he was on the phone with. We were closed and nothing was open.
And here is the beginning of Ike.
The tree debris begins.
Lost all our backyard fence.
Smashed the neighbor's bedroom window.
Neighbors on the other side had a tree fall on their house and car.
You couldn't take a good enough picture to represent all the tree debris that was in our yard.
This was how we spen one afternoon -- raking the debris.
The power was out for 9 days at our house, luckily power was on at Kuykendahl store -- so we spent the day working and then came home to a hot and dark house. Neighbors were gracious enough to share their food and we brought home pizzas and ice in return.
Now that I've had the experience -- I care not to enjoy it again. Thank you very much.
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