Our driveway the day before Ike
Our driveway at the end of Ike
Our pool the day before Ike, so peaceful.
Pool after Ike. After the wind slowed down on Saturday morning, we had the hardest rain that I have ever seen. We had more than 12 inches in four hours.
Our back patio, by the pool.
Looking down our street from our driveway the day before.
24 hours later. The water is about a foot deep.
Our sideyard is flooding
Whitewater flowing down the driveway.
Checking out the damage in the neighborhood.
Trees down in a neighbor's front yard.
On our street
Our neighborhood pond the day before Ike.
After Ike.
"Get out of the water!"
The neighborhood pond before.
And after.
The spillway going out of our little pond, before, just a trickle.
After, a rushing torrent.
The spillway and calm canal before.
And after.
Driving to my sister's house.
My sister's house, the water was about two feet deep in her street.
Lake Woodlands: the docks at North Shore Park.
Same view of North Shore Park. Two of the docks floated away.
Usually a grassy area by Bear Branch Park
Mitchell Pavillion, a concert venue in the Woodlands, on a more peaceful day.
This is a different angle, but the roof was shredded.
The nightly barbeque on our cul-de-sac. We didn't have any power for six days, so each evening we cooked all the food from everyone's refrigerators and freezers. There was so much meat every night!
So many trees fell down, but luckily not on any house in our neighborhood. The fallen trees are now are stacked in front of every house, waiting to be picked up someday...
The was a lot of fence damage.
Huge debris pile from the house across the street.
Since we didn't have power, FEMA came to town with MRE (Meals Ready to Eat).A neighbor got one, and we dissected it.
There is a lot inside the bag.
This meal was beef stew, with a strawberry milkshake, protein bar, peanut butter and crackers, and a special thing to heat up the stew. Pretty amazing.
Condiments and coffee, and a small bottle of Tabasco!
The neighborhood pond today. So peaceful, you can hardly tell that anything happened, except for the giant piles of debris in front of every house.We were very lucky not to have any damage to our house from falling trees or rising water. Living without power for six days was an interesting experience. We were fortunate to have our electricity restored in this area. Over a million people in the Houston area still don't have power today, 10 days after Hurricane Ike.
2 comments:
That FEMA food looks delicious! :)
Interesting Blog Auntie! Some pretty amazing photographs.
Hope you guys didnt have too much damaged...
Are you kidding me, you wrote the book. Wow, good to meet you. I really liked it. I tell you anything is possible on this internet.LOL! We went to Kemah this past weekend and it still looks very bad. I'll post some pictures on my blog.
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