I did not realize it had been so long since I last posted. Sorry. So...what's new?
The most excitement came from Hurricane Ike on September 12 and 13. Living in the Houston area, we got hit pretty hard. We lost 9 trees in our yard, but none of them fell on the house. We had four holes in our fence, but Wally was able to repair two of them quickly. The other two are pretty big, but fixable. We did have some leaking around our chimney and vent pipes. Since the house is only 4 months old, we are getting our builder to check the roof. There should not have been any leaks, even if Ike was a catagory 2 storm. We lost electricity for 14 days, but we had a natural gas generator built into the house, and it worked really well. We did not lose anything from the refrigerator or freezer, and we were able to make ice for our neighbors. All in all, it was a bad storm, but we were incredibly lucky.
We took some pictures of the downed trees, but have not uploaded them to the computer yet. I will try to post photos later, but I'm not making any promises.
4 comments:
Glad to see you are getting the hang of the new computer...and you already know how glad we are that Ike did not do you too much harm. Regular power is a good thing, Huh!! Jan
Yay! An update! I was wondering about you and how you fared in your new home (first hurricane!) with all the trees nearby. What a wonderful idea you had to have the built-in generator. I would say it paid for itself.
Did you get a chance to knit?
Hi Janet. I did knit a little bit during the hurricane, but not much. We did not run the AC, so it was a little warm to knit with wool, and that was all I had on the needles.
Goodness! We complain about the weather over here in the UK but at least we don't get hurricanes - must have been scary. Glad the new house stood up well.
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