Pictures From Ike

I thought that I would share a few pictures from Ike with you.

These first two photos were taken approximately 8 hours before landfall while we were at Meagan's. At first we had these very thick clouds that were rapidly moving overhead.
Within the hour, the skies turned this awesome color of blue and the clouds looked pink. They were still moving rapidly...but it was an awesome sight.
We returned to our little corner of Texas Saturday around noon...on pins and needles wondering what we might see when turned onto our drive. As I said before, we were fortunate to have little damage. Here is the tree that fell in our side yard. (It is right beside the horseshoe pits) As you can see, it barely missed my park bench (to the immediate right).
This is the tree top that has broken in half between the two trailers. Jim is still trying to figure out how to get it down without damaging either the porch on the little trailer or his new deck.
There have been many disappointments and inconveniences due to Ike's arrival in Texas. But our puppy, Hoss, made the best of the high waters by finding a nice deep ditch to play in!
As I have often said, we were fortunate -- blessed really. Others have suffered far worse than us. We have friends who are still without power...and may be so for a week or longer. Many suffered much more property damage than us...and some have lost homes.

If you would like to see a first hand account of the damage to the little beach community we visited this summer, click over to my friend's Robin's blog. (Her link is in my sidebar.) She was able to go down and see her beach house on Tuesday and posted several slide shows on her blog. She also has pictures of the massive oak trees down in the yard of her country home.