Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Hurricane Ike attacks

Some pictures of our house and neighboring area after crossing paths with hurricane Ike.

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This is very early in the morning just as the sun started lighting up the sky. Flood waters half way up neighbors yard.

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Another early morning picture. See the fire hydrant down the street? (blue w/ white cap on the right) The water was at the very top 45 minutes earlier. I walked down the street around 6:15am and was standing next to the hydrant. The houses down the street did get water in the house. We stayed dry.

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This is the storm which brought all the rain. You can see the ~35mph winds blowing the rain

horizontal and the trees leaning over. I wish I could have taken a picture of the 80mph winds we had.

That was some wind.

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Our house. Look at the upper left of my oak tree. Cleared out the top portion of my oak tree.

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View from our front porch.

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Part of the back fence and another tree down. We lost over 100ft of fencing.

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Sunday, September 07, 2008

Fire and water

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Spent some time mowing at Pauls place this weekend. What fun we had - I caught the mower on fire and then ran over a water valve hidden within the deep grass. Not to mention breaking the blade drive belt in between. Sorry no picture of the fire since we were busy poking with sticks trying to get the dead grass out.  There are priorities you know!

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What 20+ years brings - the same day many years ago we were getting ready for his marriage with Anney (not to mention the kidnapping of the groom and going to....).

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