The final decision was made to stay. We couldn't get east due to Gustav....nowhere West until we hit El Paso...ugh. Road North is blocked and detoured to Lufkin.....a shelter in Lufkin or home ....so we stay home. There are no hotel rooms available.....
So the morning before Ike comes to visit we head outside for some playtime. It was cool with a light breeze ....we watched the clouds spin counter clockwise above us.....
I bake and he mows.....an acre with a push mower! Everyone took a turn including the little kids!
John took Sam out when the tropical force winds started up.... Sam LOVED it! I think that was the reason he was able to sleep during the whole storm .....The sounds didn't scare him since he thought it was just like the winds he experienced in the afternoon..... The kids sleep soundly during the winds. Charlotte woke when the eye it...it was much to quiet for her and did not fall back to sleep until the winds picked backup an hour later...
After Ike....
The playground stands! We really thought we would lose it! This isn't storm surge just rain water.... We were incredibly lucky. We headed out the next day to visit a community a little farther north and the destruction was outstanding. We had NO damage ...just a few lost tree limbs. 
Everyone gets involved with the clean up. I didn't get a picture of our neighborhood after all the limbs are on the curb. You could not see the houses ....just mounds of stuff on the curb.
The levy system that we live behind saved us for the storm surge. Many communities farther inland were not so lucky....Oldtimers were amazed at how high the water line was on the levies....they have never seen it this high....
The dike was stripped bare of buildings and we were unable to drive down it on this day......But it did its job and protected our community!
Just a few miles from our home... The levy kept the debris on 1-45 and not in our backyard!Our life is almost normal as long as we avoid a regular grocery store. Shelfs are semi-bare and folks are a little crazy because of it. I am the only adult in the family who is not able to return to work....Galveston is not open for business yet and the hospital flooded.
The kids missed their Wednesday break from school! Sam hasn't been able to keep the days of the week straight since I've been home all week...Soon things will return to normal....
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