Our poor house...Other than the trees leaning to the side and a ton of leaves in our pool, we came out ok. We are still without power, which has been very hard. My studio is also without power.

 

 

 

 

This is our neighbor's house. They lost some shingles and took some water but they are all ok too.

 

 

 

 

Our other neighbor lost her tree and only narrowly kept the front of her house.

 

 

 

 

Here are 2 of our other neighbors checking out the damage. Steven was very grateful when this neighbor brought him a hot cup of coffee. It's the simple things that make a huge difference.

 

 

 

This is our street from one end of the block.

 

 

 

These neighbors have TWO trees in their house and lost their entire fence.

 

 

 

I love how, in this picture, you can see how the wind swept across hitting the far left tree the hardest.

 

 

 

I took this out of the window while the last of the storm was blowing through. This bamboo was fully covered in leaves before the storm and now you can see where the wind stripped most of the leaves off.

 

Basically, we are doing ok. We feel grateful to still have our home. We see the images from Galveston and just sit in shock. People lost everything. LIterally some homes just blew completely away. It's shocking. We are trying to be resilient, up beat and grateful but we are also having moments of irritation, defeat and sadness.

 

I am thankful to get online though. Blogging is making me feel a bit more "normal". I did have to drag my CPU up to a friend's apartment though in order to get online. Life is still not normal at all. There is no fresh food in the stores. I have 3 bags of ice in a cooler in my car waiting to take home in an effort to save what food I have. People's conversations are centering around who has power, ice, gas and food. It's weird for sure.

 

Our kids are still with my parents in Austin. We are missing them terribly but I am so happy that they are away from all of this. I think it would all be too scary.

 

I am holding out hope that the lights come on soon, in more ways than one. Thanks for listening.