Hurricane Ike

OK, for those of you wondering how our families are doing, since they were in Houston when Ike came through, this post is for you.

AJ's family is OK...his dad has a generator and they're running some stuff off that, so they're in decent shape with that. Sounds like there was a fair amount of damage done in their area with trees falling on garages, etc, but they're OK, and only had some branches down and such.

My parents had a couple of trees fall on one corner of their house, but didn't seem to damage the house structurally or let in rain or anything, but it did knock down the phone lines...didn't sever them or anything, but they're on the ground. My dad also bought a generator, so they're running necessary things like AC (part of the time), TV, refridgerator, deep freeze, etc. lol...
They also have some guests...

Which brings me to my sisters and their families. Missy went into labor on the 11th and had Josiah early on the morning of the 12th. Mom, Dad, Jenny, Aaron, and Sophia spent the night in the hospital with Missy and Nate, but got kicked out around noon when the hospital went into lockdown for the hurricane. So Jenny and Aaron went to their house and got things set up to weather the storm, and then went to Mom and Dad's for the night, since they had the generator. I talked to Jen today and she said they had a tree and a huge branch from another tree fall on their house, but sounds like it didn't cause any leaks or anything, so just have to fix the roof or whatever (didn't get very detailed news, as she was watching both Josiah and Sophia by herself at the time, and the phone line didn't want to stay working), and they're still at Mom and Dad's.

Missy and Josiah got discharged from the hospital on Saturday afternoon, and decided to go to their house for that night, and I assume there was little to no damage, but haven't heard anything from them, so don't know for sure. On Sunday, they went to Mom and Dad's as well, so there's just a huge party at their house apparently! Everyone is still out of electricity, but hopefully soon they'll be able to go back to their homes, as I know they miss their privacy, especially Missy and Nate with the new baby. I'll do a welcome post for Josiah when I get some pictures I can post.

OK, so that's pretty much all I know for now. Please pray for everyone who lived/worked on the west side of Galveston Island, as it is pretty much destroyed. And really for everyone who got hit by it. There's a lot of destruction, even if you don't hear too much about it...like you do about the hurricanes that hit Louisiana. Interesting, isn't it...

OK, I'll post more another time...