Waiting out Ike

Well, we're still here. We just finished waiting out Hurricane Ike. The hurricane came ashore as a strong category 2, and weakened to a category 1 by the time that it passed to the east of us. It blew a lot and dumped a good deal of rain. Our yard has some debris in it, but no trees down or anything. We lost power about 9AM but it was back up by ten. As I write this I can see the sun set and the skies are clear over head.

Thursday night the church opened as a shelter for members in Houston stakes. They asked to have priesthood there at all times, so I volunteered to spend Thursday night at the church. We were responsible for checking people in and getting them situated if they got there late. We had two families show up at about 10. The ones who did show up said that they had been on the roads for about 24 hours. They first tried to go to San Antonio but couldn't get there, nor to Austin, so they came here. By that time we were told that the building in Bryan was already full. It ended up that there really was very little for the priesthood to do there that night so we ended up getting some sleep. I have to hand it to the bishop though. He was there until after 11 PM and was there first thing in the morning.

Yesterday school was closed so that people could get ready and make any travel arrangements that they needed to. It was kind of weird that school was closed due to bad weather but the weather was great all day. So we spent it getting things ready for the storm, cleaning the house and yard and stuff.

Friday night we were a little worried about the possibility of windows breaking, and the boys sleep right beneath the window in their room. We had them sleep in our room. Things went surprisingly well. We went to bed late. I woke up about 4am, it looked really windy outside, but it looked like things would be OK, so I went back to bed.

Today we just played it lazy, no where to go and nothing to do. We napped and played around. By the end of the day we all had a little bit of cabin fever and were glad when our friends called and invited us over to their house for dinner and a few games. So here are a few pictures of us weathering the Hurricane, sorry no actual pictures of the hurricane. We didn't really see anything all that interesting. It just looked like a bad thunderstorm, with out the lightning.

I think that Carter drove more than anyone today.

Corbin Watching a Movie in the Tepee

Me studying hard