Ike's Damage to Us

I am finally getting around to going through some pictures and thought I'd post a few here.

Well, all we had up here from Ike were strong winds (up to 80 mph). Most of the rain missed us but the heavy winds did a lot of damage in this area (and all over the state from what I am hearing with state of emergencies in most of the counties in this state). There were several times our house shook good. There are still schools closed in our area, though our kids' school was only affected the day after the storm. They still have not restored power back to everybody yet. We got lucky. We had some damage but compared to some people around us, we were lucky. We had some yard items flipped over (kids' playhouse was left standing) and several of our trees damaged but at least they weren't on our roof, like our neighbor down the road. Most everything was ok once flipped back over. The volleyball net poles were broke so that went into the trash but everything else was fixable.

Some of our neighbors weren't so lucky. I can't imagine living in the south and going through an actual hurricane. The winds from Ike were bad enough here in the north!