Home Sweet Home

We are home!!!!

We got up this morning with the plan to head on home. Since we were expecting to be without power for a couple of days at the minimum we ventured out to hit some grocery stores etc in the Katy area thinking that since most of Katy had power and really wasn't affected it wouldn't be that bad. We were wrong...every grocery store and home improvement store had huge lines. We made it to an HEB and picked up some non perishable foods and more water and then made it to Academy for some camper stove propane tanks to cook with. We then packed up the car and headed home. We knew from friends that our house had pretty much no damage but the only unknown was the power situation but we figured more than anything, we just wanted to be home.

It was pretty weird driving home and seeing some of the damage. It wasn't as bad as I expected. Pretty much blown down trees, signs and bill boards and some store front damage. It was weird seeing a store sign wrapped around a tree in a cemetery and a trampoline bent around a light post. Well we made it home and as we walked in John looked at our stove in the kitchen and looked at me with astonishment because the clock was on. We had power! What a huge blessing and relief! We quickly unpacked and got settled back into our house and we are so happy. 

My mom and sisters are staying with us because both of their places still are without power so we have a full house (five adults, three dogs and a baby). My mom's house had a little more damage than ours, the siding and insulation on her second floor blew off in a spot and actually exposed the sheet rock. John helped nail a tarp over it as a temporary fix. As we expected, the trees in our front yard are a little slanted, the tree in the back was on its side and we have some fence damage but overall we are very lucky. 

I have uploaded some pictures of our house and our hurricane adventure here and will add some more as we venture out in the coming days.

Please continue to pray for everyone in this area as Galveston and portions of our area experienced some significant damage and have a long recovery process ahead.