We thought our adventure was over yesterday afternoon when the power came back on, but not quite. Early this morning, like 3:30am or so, a huge thunderstorm came through our part of town. The power went out again and when we woke up this morning our rain gauge had overflowed, meaning we had received OVER 5 inches overnight. Parts of the city are flooding again, but our street is nice and clear. We are very pleased with how our neighborhood has fared with the storm. Power and water were restored about 10:30am so we were only inconvenienced for about 7 more hours.
We drove around Katy today and saw TONS of fences down, tree branches down, whole trees snapped in half or uprooted, traffic signs and lights down...Katy wasn't hit very bad at all, but there still was a lot of damage and we got off pretty easy. Paul is out with our church group helping clean up now. I bet he'll have even more stories to tell when he gets home. My mom is still without power in her house, and while there is no damage to her home, there is tons of debris in her yard. If her power doesn't come back soon she'll loose the food in her 4 fridges and freezers.
Let's hope this is the end of our adventure, but again, we can't complain, we feel pretty blessed.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
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Glad everything is fine there. Its very stressful and an adrenaline rush when those storms are coming. Before the storm turned farther east I was freaking out a little here because they sent buses of people to the new elementary school by our house.
that's when it hit me that it was serious.
Good luck with the clean up.
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