we made it.
no damage to the house,
no flooding in our neighborhood.
even our trees are fine.
the neighbor lost one of her pines…straight onto our driveway.
we thought something like that might happen,
we just thought it’d go the other way.
we parked our cars in our yard in front of the house
instead of on the driveway.
the pine missed the back of Dad’s car by two inches.
actually the ends of the branches were touching it.
it was pretty exciting–I got to watch it go around 5 am.
right now we’re in Austin with Mom and the little ones.
we decided no a/c in Houston was one adventure we did not want to experience.
it’s amazing how muggy it got as the winds died down Saturday afternoon.
the drive through Houston was equally amazing.
i had no idea wind could do that much damage.
i was out in some of that wind! (yes, we played in the storm…don’t tell the experts.)
according the the news, all of the Texas coastline is devastated.
but there are places where nothing but tree branches and fences went down.
i’m so grateful to God that our neighborhood was one of them.
stacy has some great pictures on her site of Friday preparations.
hopefully she’ll be able to upload some from the actual storm soon.
PennyDaisy 
Glad you all are ok. Believe it or not, yesterday we finally cleared out the wreckage in our front yard from the last storm system…first time I ever used a chainsaw! Still got all my fingers and everything…
Wow, it’s neat to hear your story! I am glad you are all okay. We’re good too…. just without power until this morning. But we live downtown, so we got it back pretty quickly.
Yikes! It’s good to hear you’re safe. I admit, as a Carolinian, I LOVE hurricanes. Not so much the clean-up, but the storms themselves are a thrill for me… When I was in junior high, my friend and I used to go out in them with my parents’ camcorder, pretending we were meteorologists reporting on the storm… Good times.
Hey! You still alive and kickin’ down there? What’s up?