Powered Up Again!

After 57 hours without, power to our house is up and running and we hope and pray it stays that way. Many, many people in our area are still without! 

Because we have been without TV news, we really only know what we have been told over the phone. 

Guess we are out of touch with radio and do not have the right equipment to receive news. A few of our gadgets died, including a TV. Hubby and I really do try to keep up with everything and probably that was the most stressful thing for us: not knowing what was going on. 

The cell phone was super for sending and receiving texts and calls from friends and family. 

If you have been reading previous messages in this blog, then you will understand that we are now “back from our luxurious vacation”. 

On the up side, we loved how young Wil (five and a half years old) was watching and worrying for us. We had many calls from his Grandmother in Ontario. They were keeping us updated from CNN. Thanks for all your prayers from Ontario and Alberta, Iowa, California, Michigan and Ohio! 

Thanks Elaine, for calling Swiss Chalet to deliver the BBQ chicken to us from Toronto, even if only in our dreams! 

Now, we have not watched the news yet, but we are sorry that apparently Ike continued on up, all the way to Ontario! Sorry to those of you who received residual. 

Thanks to all the folks who made it a little easier on us: Raul with ice, Daisy with ice, Armando with the clean-up, and to anyone I am forgetting. Thanks to all the employees who were able to open up essential services quickly. Simple gestures were what we needed. 

We had no church on Sunday – that is another story: first time! 

Will try to post again with some photos of our area in East Texas. We are blessed in that we received very little damage: mostly downed tree limbs. We are in a brick house and it seems to have survived nicely. 

I must stress to you up north that our area was an evacuation area where people came to be safe and we actually probably took a little bigger hit than originally expected. 

I wore my Big Bear Lake (California) 1991 – 1992 Survival Shirt on Saturday – in memory of my niece, Rosalyn who loved California as much as I love Texas.