Picture this . . . around 1:00 am the storm starts hitting at our house. As hard as we tried we could not stay awake to watch the damage, so we head for bed. At 1:30 our son calls to ask us what is happening with the storm, told him I have no clue because I was trying to go to sleep! We try to go back to sleep (lulled by the strong winds), at 2:00 we hear a thump/crash . . . from what we could tell it was part of the side fence falling. Around 2:30, just at the point of falling asleep, we hear thump/crash/thump . . . . this was the remaining part of the side fence falling. At this point neither of us could sleep, so we watch the FR hurricane thread and the steaming video of the local news stations (our cable went out many hours ago). Beginning about 3:00 am the power was spotty ~ finally going away at 4:00 am. With nothing else to do we head to bed, it was around 4:30 am when I finally went to sleep. At 6:30 am I receive a text message from my sister asking how we were doing (I did not respond at that time cause I was lacking sleep). At 7:30 am I received a phone call from a dear friend that I could not blow off . . . it took me a few minutes to clear my head, but I gave her a basic break down of what happened.
Saturday morning we did our best clear our minimal damage & prop the entire fence line (both sides & the back side was messed up). After the clean up was complete was done we were totally bored!!
We offered our chain saw to one neighbor . . . but found out that one of the strays had stolen & pawned said chainsaw (Gunner ~ I know where to find this scum!)
After 64 hours without power I am a happy person!!!
God Speed to the rest of Houston . . . .
Great report! Hope you are caught up on your sleep now. Glad to have you back. :o)
You’re back! With power .. glad
you guys doing well. Bored yet ..
LOL.
I know the pain of those interruptions
to your peaceful slumber will soon be
forgotten ...... ;)
When’s the chainsaw hunt begin?