| Early in the morning I surveyed
the damage. There was, of course, branches and twigs
everywhere.
Listening to the news we found out we made
the right decision staying here instead of going to East Texas.
My family reports from East Texas that many
trees are down, there is no gas and power is going to be out for two
weeks.
Continuing to survey the damage, I find a
large tree which has a huge crack in it, large enough to see through! The
tree creaked every time the wind blew and would have fallen on our house.
If winds had been any higher the tree would have hit the house.
The tree was being held up by a small tree
and branches of another leaning tree. Unsure of what to do, we call my
brother, Cory. If we hadn't been able to get hold of him, I don't know
what we would have done. What can three women do with a job like that?
Cory and his Father-in-law came over to
help with tearing down the tree. It was a full days work, but it was done
and we can now breathe a bit easier. At the end of the work we were
treated to a solar halo.
We were blessed not to take a direct hit
from this storm. Still things are far from normal.
The night of 9/25/05 I drive around the
neighborhood searching for gas and finally find a station that has some! I
called my mom and sis and we all filled up while we could. Many places
still don't have gas. Mom goes
to a convenient store to find some ice. Major grocery stores don't even
have ice. Schools are out until Wednesday. This is to give teachers, like
myself, time to fix the classrooms back up. We had to lift everything off
of the floors and tear down the computers before we left last Wednesday.
Many should already be back in town, but with gas being scarce, I'm not
sure about that.
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