Ike 1, Jennifer 0

Ok so I am sure you have seen the reports about hurricane Ike or are currently feeling the effects of him yourself.  It has been 4 days since he came to town and we are still living and breathing.  Some of us not breathing in a pleasant smell, but sewage happens.  We are especially appreciative of the generator that Kranky has so graciously provided us...please God don't let the gas run out.  It has been rather surreal to watch people wait 2 hours in line to get gas and the mass hysteria that a new palette of ice can cause.  I have much respect and admiration for the police officers that are out taking care of looters and keeping the crowds in check.  We are still waiting on electricity, which can make some people a little cranky.  I got a little annoyed at a woman in the line to go into the grocery store yesterday who first of all was trying to manipulate things and second of all kept asking "when do you think we'll get electric?"  I'm not totally sure what she thought she was asking, but I kept envisioning all of us walking around zapping each other like electric eels or something... she would have been my first target.  Due to our generator and the powers that be, we finally got Internet service today.  Woohoo!!  Boy I missed my Internet.  

Definitely this hurricane was worse then the last one we went through (Rita).  As you can see Ike pushed a tree over onto my parents' house.  That big jerk.  I have to say I was pretty freaked out after that storm when we got to my parents' house and found that tree on top of it.  What was even scarier was the fact that it crushed the corner of the roof and started letting water leak in.  The paint started peeling and sliding off the wall, the corner of the room was soaked, there was a crack in the ceiling, and water was dripping into my mom and dad's room.  Fortunately for my parents it could have been much worse.  I am still amazed at all the trees down that fell over and pulled up the roots...what a wind.

Thank God we still have it pretty good.  Lets pray the nice weather keeps up.