Hurricane Ike: we survived!

[stangs13]

Hey everyone! First off, we survived Ike, and took alot of damage, and there is alot of clean up ahead, but we have power, 2 days after...we have power! We were told that we wouldn't have power for close to a month, and we were told to leave the town. My town is about 30 miles away from Galveston Island, and 10-15 form Kemah . Galveston was hit hard, the only reason the island is still there is because of the sea wall, the storm surge was at the top of the seawall 12 hrs before the storm even hit, this cat 2 storm had the surge of a cat 4. The west side of the island has no sea wall, and it is full of farmland and NICE beach houses, well there is no west side anymore. Our fav beach was on the west side too..

The storm itself was amazing! Watching winds so strong like they were really makes you realize the size and strength of God!

I could keep going on forever and ever about it all, but I am tired..lol. I still havent heard from diana, I sent her a text, she was on the north side of houston, but some parts dont have power in north houston.

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers! Our town was spared for sure, it could have been way worse, like our neighboring towns. Keep praying and thinking for all the people that didn't fair as well as we did.

[frankykeno]

Justin, it's soooo good to hear from you. We've all been worried, praying and sending up good thoughts for you and all those in the path of Ike. Sounds like your family came through relatively okay considering how bad it could have been. Big hugs and welcome back! Now go help your mom clean something LOL

[rabernet]

Oh Justin - THANK YOU for checking in - I was worried sick about you and your family! Now we need to hear from the others in the area!

[justin81]

Glad to hear you made it out ok!!

[Kristy]

Glad to hear it Justin! I have been wondering about all of you guys that are down there.

Scary stuff. Glad you are ok!

[hondo1967]

glad to here your ok. Best of luck.

[jknudson]

Good to hear you guys are alright man!

[stangs13]

Thanks guys! As far as I know I am the closest member to galveston, everyone else is northern, there is one more inactive member in galveston though.. Even my grandparents in Kentucky lost power and broke windows form ike!!

My town is oh so very luck, just lots of down trees( our town is known for trees nationaly) power outages, wind damage..etc. Other towns just a mile away are horrible, its unbelivable.

[Jyson]

Happy to here yall made it!

[snakelady]

Glad to hear you are all right. How scary!
We even had strange weather from the hurricane way up here in WI! Not damage or anything...just very werid. Stillness and humid heavy air.