This is the back of our house. You can see we got very lucky. (Not lucky just saved by God)
Oops! Sorry I didn't realize that this was the same pic!
A close up!
Here is the roof damage, plus a lot of shingles were blown off!
The tree fell on our air conditioning unit and dented the frame. From what we can tell, the frame was the only thing hurt. Hopefully!This morning, we woke up to some crazy winds. It was then when we realized that the winds were from "Ike" the Houston hurricane. My husband got a call that his brothers roof had some significant damage to it, so he went to help tarp it. When he returned, he told Marleigh and Me to get changed, that we were going somewhere that wasn't surrounded by trees. He shared that our neighbor's tree in their front yard had fallen on two of their cars and we weren't taking any chances. We went outside to talk to them about their damage, and my mother-in-law had just picked up Marleigh to take to her house. I ran inside to get my camera so I could share these amazing sites on my blog and went outside again, when all of a sudden, I heard this cracking and weird noise. I looked over the house and that's when I noticed a tree falling on our own house. It was crazy. I have to say the pics look bad and it is bad, but we are so lucky that the damage wasn't worse. If the tree wouldn't have caught the branches from another tree beside it on the way down, we could have had tree branches in our living room. We were so blessed and looked after by the hand of God.
I could not imagine how powerful a hurricane could be. We had 50-60 mph straight line winds, could you imagine 130 mph winds. The winds today were quite amazing. Nature is a powerful thing. I pray for all of the families in Galveston, Houston and every county that has felt this powerful storm. I pray that God keeps you safe and that the rebuilding is speedy, but brings Glory to God.
Until next time-Live, Laugh, Love
Tara
4 comments:
Bless you guys! It looks like you have some work to do. You are so right that you weren't just lucky.
I wanted to say that I love the picture of Benji and Marleigh made in Florida. You should enter it in some sort of contest. I know it could win you some kind of prize.
love you all
cathy
PS Glad you are doing ok. I remember visiting the porcelain queen myself quite a lot myself when pg with Charles Frank. Maybe it will be a boy!
I am so very sorry to see all the damage your house received from the IKE winds. I sure hope that you can get everything back to normal very soon and I am very glad that no one got hurt. We can always fix stuff. People are the most important. If there is anything I can do, just let me know
Wow couz!! I am so glad you guys were okay. Those winds were crazy. love you,
Dadburn! That looks like a BIG tree! I'm so glad nothing major was damaged. We had two trees to fall as well, but nothing was hit by the trees. We don't know how fortunate we are until we see others worse off than we are. I can't imagine my entire town being destroyed. Hope all is well!
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