Hurricane Ike - Part II - Surveying the Damage

Late Saturday afternoon, Paul and I decided to venture back across town to see how our neighborhood had fared.  We spoke to our neighbor earlier who had told us that it didn't look like we had any damage but that a tree in the neighbor's yard behind us had fallen into our yard.   Thinking of the small dogwood that was just on the other side of the fence, I was not to worried, and excited about the prospect of getting a new fence.

We pulled into our driveway and were quite relieved that the only noticeable damage were about ten small tree limbs.  Paul and I were doing the happy dance.  

We walked through the house, no damage, no broken windows, no leaks.  YEA!!!  

 

We then headed to the backyard to survey the damage to the fence.  HOLY MOLY!  What happened to my oasis of a backyard?!?!  Boy, was my vision of the small Dogwood tree through the fence wrong.  Instead two large oaks and the dogwood tree were down, and I think half of one of the trees was in the deep end of the pool.  The deep end of the pool was full of tree debris.  It stuck up several inches above the water level.

We decided that since the power lines were involved in the tree, we were going to wait and let the power company take care of the tree.  

Thinking back on the images we will never forget from the recent hurricanes, the New Orleans Heineken beer looter following hurricane Katrina is one of my favorite images.  Paul was going to reenact that image in our pool; however, after seeing the condition of the pool, he decided to modify it, by not actually getting in the pool.

That ended up being a good idea, when we went inside to take a shower, we learned we had no water pressure.  That gas hot water heater we were so excited about before the storm did us no good without water.  At that point, we decided to get out of town.  To Aggieland we escaped...