Home at last

We are home and I have to admit it is a bit surreal. The drive from San Antonio had quite a bit of traffic. Gas became harder to find the closer to Houston we came. One town actually had their exit blocked so no one could get off the freeway to get gas (a little selfish I thought). Fortunately we arrived back home with a half tank of gas.

Aside from a few missing shingles, all our fences down and lots of debris, we are VERY blessed.

The fence you see in the distance isn't ours, it is across and green belt and is our neighbors. Ours is flat on the ground. When you consider only 27% of all of Houston had power and our street (or at least part of it) was a portion of that it is amazing. We have already provided freezer space to a neighbor and some ice. We plan to make our internet available tomorrow to whoever needs it.

I will try to send more pictures as time allows. It is hard to capture what it is like. Trees snapped. You can tell a hurricane went through - there is no doubt. Kristal will be living with us for a while as she cannot live in her condo. Her upstairs neighbor's fireplace collapsed and it sent soot and some water into her unit. Water came through her glass doors, but the smart girl had put towels in front of them which were soaked, but protected her floor. We will clean out what we can tomorrow so she doesn't get any mold on her stuff. She said she passed many apartments that were much, much worse. Carports collapsed, brick exteriors down. There is so, so much work to be done.

The blessing - we have no fences. We have talked with all our neighbors, meeting some for the first time. We will be reading our insurance policy and hoping that what they say isn't true - that each insurance incidence has a deductible.....we just paid it to repair hail damage from Mother's day. Sigh. That is something for tomorrow.

So continue to pray. For energy for all the clean-up for ourselves and to help others as we can. Praise God for cool (yes cool) weather and low humidity - unheard of here - but a great blessing to work outside.