We survived!!! This was an interesting experience! So we evacuated to “The Woodlands” and stayed with some friends, the Sorbers. Hurricane Ike hit in the middle of the night, so Brett and the one other evacuee guest stayed up all night to keep watch. I fell a sleep on the couch waiting for them. The wind was the most intense part. But luckily we were far enough inland that we didn’t get it to bad. The next morning we surveyed the damage. It was pretty bad. Trees down everywhere! The roads were covered with debris and power lines. We stayed inside all that day and the next. The Sorbers fortunately had a generator cuz no one had power. We plugged in the fridge on and off during the day to keep our food cold and used lamps at night. We cooked on the grill and propane stove. I have to admit that we might have just been hit by a hurricane but our stomachs sure didn’t feel it! We ate so good! Young Shin, Rachel and Erin are all wonderful cooks and made sure we had plenty of good food. Gas was nowhere to be found so we had to be careful of our usage. Finally after about 3 days the trees were starting to get cleared (Brett helped with chainsawing for most of that time, going from house to house with a a few other ward members with chainsaws). We went out to clean up the mess it left in the Sorbers yard. Once the gas stations were receiving gas again it was mega lines (4 hr was normal). We opted not to drive and wait until the lines were not so bad. We ended up staying with the Sorbers for about 6 days then we got word that the place we are staying, in Mont Belvieu had power. We left and waited it out there a little longer. All in all Brett and I were out of work and school for a week and a half. I went back to work and they still did not have power but were running on a generator. We are told the some people will not get power until November! We feel so blessed to have good friends that we could stay with during all this craziness. The after math is finaly starting to get a little better like a lot of lights were out downtown so traffic was crazy! Well that’s it, Thanks for all your prayers in our behalf!
