Hurricane Ike

Our house before the Hurricane hit. We boarded up the downstairs with whatever wood we could find around the house, and then we all slept down stairs. We could hear lots of things hitting the wood in the middle of the night. It got really loud outside as well.
This is our neighborhood after the storm. There were trees down everywhere. Almost everyhouse had a tree down or a fence. These are just a few of the pics.

This hotel is right outside our neighborhood. We also just found out that the Macy's at the mall right by us had it's roof colapse.

Here is our house after the storm. The only thing that happened was the two bushes by the door fell down, and big branches in the yard. We were very blessed.




We had no electricity for 11 days. So we used a propane grill outside and the smoker to cook our mealsWe kept part of the boards up to block out the sun, since we had no a/c. Getting out of the house through this door was a pain. Pono tried once, it was quite humorous. We took off a few more boards after that.
Clean up after the storm.

Everyone brought all the rubbish from the storms to the street for pick up. It was hard to drive down some of the streets because there was so much.