AN-IKE-IN-MY-SIDE

Hello again. I wish we could be conversing under better circumstances, but things are what they are. IKE came through with an awesome force. Luckily, the only real damage to the house can be seen on the right dormer, some of the brown metal was ripped off (a very loud process). There is not much debris in the front yard because we have no trees on our lot, but the neighbors sure do.
The pool was a receptacle for junk and no I haven't cleaned it out yet. It is going to take some time. The picture is a tad bit deceiving, but there is thick debris on the bottom, trust me!



Looking out the front door to the neighbors you can see someone lost a tree and someone else got lucky that it just missed their house!


This picture is a typical sight in the neighborhood.


This is another lucky neighbor that escaped severe damage. The tree covered the entire road for most of the morning. The interesting part of this picture is that you can notice the tree does not have many roots and the roots that are present are small. I am sure there is a lesson in this somewhere...


Well, this fence was leaning to start with and as you can see it did not bode well for it during the storm. I am sure there is a lesson in this also...

Let's recap: IKE hit at Midnight on Sept 12 and we lost power at 2:30 AM. We regained power at 7:00 PM on Sept 14. We are now busying cleaning the debris from all the crevasses.

Later,
Brendan & Karla