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The former Coast Guard officer that had the house on Crystal Beach and survived those 14 hrs. after he was in the water, was extremely lucky and think he would have drown had he not been former Coast Guard. There were only a few houses left on Crystal Beach after Ike and they were damaged so much they probably had to come down, and a number of people died that day. Ike was too strong for that strip of land not far from from Galveston. Water was normally on both sides of Crystal Beach so it was overwhelmed. I saw film after film of those houses breaking up and floating out.

When Ike got to me 100 miles north of there, I was worried about two huge, very tall oak trees (can you say as tall as the Empire State Bldg.?) behind my house but not my trees. I slept downstairs. A lady in my town was killed by a tree falling in her bedroom. An electric repairman in my town was killed when a tree fell on him.

I am totally prepared for a hurricane right now, always stay that way, but one never knows what trees will do or if a tornado will be spawned by a hurricane or how many days one will be without power.

I know what it is to be anxious during this kind of storm and my heart goes out to all of you going through this. I wish I could be with each one of you. If you are without power and have a bad time for a number of days, please feel pleasure that you are still here to have a bad time. The same goes if your house floods. If you didn't make it through the storm alive, you would never see that in order to fix it. I want you to be able to see it and cuss and have a fit.

In Jesus name, Amen.