Well we feel like we had been officially welcomed here to Houston as we have survived our first hurricane. School was cancelled last Thursday as Hurricane Ike's path switched to Houston. I left school that afternoon and I grabbed a few things out of our apartment in downtown Houston and headed up to meet Ashley at my sister JoLynne's house in the suburbs of Houston. The traffic was pretty bad already with everyone trying to get away from the coast. We hunkered down with JoLynne's family and rode out the storm. It was amazing to hear and see what a hurricane is capable of doing. We lost power in the middle of the night and the storm finally started to die down at about the middle of the afternoon the next day. The streets were flooded so we couldn't go down to check our apartment until Monday. We were worried because there is a big palm tree next to our window, but luckily the window didn't break. Our neighborhood looked like a war zone as debris was everywhere. We finally got power back to our apartment last night (Tuesday night) and are starting to see things return back to normal. It has been an exciting week though, and we are glad we survived it.
Flooding in downtown Houston not too far from our apartment
This is a picture of the sky about an hour before the hurricane hit. The sky was eerily beautiful. "The calm before the storm" I guess.
The winds are starting to pick up....(yeah I know I look like a fairy...I don't know what I was doing)
My neice Courtney and I had to experience first hand what a hurricane felt like so we went outside. We were drenched in about 2 seconds...and yes, even in a hurricane Courtney is still fashion conscious
