After the Storm

It's amazing to see the difference in what wind and rain can do to a perfectly calm neighborhood in on a few short hours. We are so very blessed because we did not have any trees come through our house. We had lots of limbs down, only one tree and lots of pinecones, but all in the yard. No damage to the fence or any outside structures. We did have some small holes in the shingles where water seeped into the house, but Lee put a temporary fix on those until we get the $ from insurance to replace it. We lost power before the storm even came onto land, but we lose power on many sunny, cloudless days, so that's nothing new in Crosby! We were blessed to have Papa bring us a generator on Sunday evening so that we could plug in our freezer and refrigerator. We did lose all the food in the refrigerator, but once again, God provided...our insurance covered the entire loss without a deductible! Another huge blessing was a cool front that came in and kept the days and night cooled down. It started heating up about a week later, but we were fortunate to have 4 fans, a generator and lots of gas in the car to go to places with free air conditioning! :-) We did have a lot of trash to clean up...see the trash pile picture to get an idea and we were w/o electricity and hot water for 11 days, but we had some tremendous family time with out the TV, we got lots of organization done around the house and we are not more appreciative for the things we did without. God is Good!

Here is the house on Saturday afternoon after the rain stopped.

Here is the big limb - along with the pinecones - that helped put some small holes in the roof...we'll get that fixed later.

Here is a tree that fell in our back yard, four inches from the swingset and about 6 inches from the fence...just the right spot!

Ann Alyse & Avery loved splashing in the water...it only lasted about two days, though.

Ann Alyse & Avery getting a wheelbarrow ride from Papa while he was here for a few hours. Thank you, Papa, again for bringing us the generator and food goodies...we couldn't have done it without you!

Ann Alyse & Daddy raking together. Such a big helper...as you might notice, Avery and I are sitting in the shade...just kidding, we were helping bag everything up!

Our trash pile, limbs, cut up trees and bags of raked leaves and debris. Note the size according to little 36" Ann Alyse on the side!