Road to Recovery from Ike

[Marilyn]

Sandy, so glad you are safe and being taken care of. Hopefully your power will be on again, soon. We haven't been to Houston since the hospital fiasco, and don't know when we will need to go there. I'm sure parts will look different.

We heard that some of the schools reopened yesterday, but not all of them. We certainly did not wish the storm to move north, south to King Ranch or a very lowly populated area was our prayer, but looking at what happened in your area, we are thankful that it did not hit here.

We still have refugees in our area waiting to hear they have power before returning home. Take care and keep us posted on progress.

[Tiramisu]

STILL NOT COMPLAINING - JUST UPDATING - No power and the mosquitos are so bad you can't sit outside. Hubby saturates himself in Off to work on cutting the trees up. TV's new season is starting and we're missing a few of our favorites. We did get to watch Dancing and Boston Legal last night. I brought my camera cord, so I'll post pictures shortly. Coming to work is actually a relief!!!!

[Janet]

After what you've been through and still going through, I would never think you are complaining. I hope they get your power back on soon. Have they given you any idea when that might be? Maybe someone can record the shows for you that you're missing.

[Tiramisu]

Originally Posted by Janet

After what you've been through and still going through, I would never think you are complaining. I hope they get your power back on soon. Have they given you any idea when that might be? Maybe someone can record the shows for you that you're missing.

The map for my zip code shows power to be restored by Thursday. That's only two more nights! Don't they usually rerun the first show anyway?!

[Janet]

YAY....you've made it this long....two more nights will be a piece of cake. Can't wait to read the excited post from you saying "LIGHTS ON"

[Tiramisu]

Here's an attempt at some of our pictures! Hopefully they'll come out backyard before, backyard after, big oak down, and little oak down.

[Tiramisu]

These should be the tree on the garden, front yard before (Fall 2006) and front yard after.

[Marilyn]

SAndy, so sad that you lost so many trees!!!

I was in Corpus Christi today and they have 10 tons of debris a day floating up on Corpus Christi Beach. The debris is people's lives, toys, clothes, boards, all sorts of things. Someone found a 3 wheeler off Matagorda Island. It's supposed to be the same a Port O'Connor. No bodies yet, but lots of stuff. So sad!!

[celstu1]

Originally Posted by Tiramisu

STILL NOT COMPLAINING - JUST UPDATING - No power and the mosquitos are so bad you can't sit outside. Hubby saturates himself in Off to work on cutting the trees up. TV's new season is starting and we're missing a few of our favorites. We did get to watch Dancing and Boston Legal last night. I brought my camera cord, so I'll post pictures shortly. Coming to work is actually a relief!!!!

Its ok to complain.. unless you don't want to! Your family is in my prayers. I hope that things get better quicker. I could not imagine how you must feel. My heart goes out to everyone in Texas and surrounding areas for all the devastation and destruction Ike did. Hang in there, this will all be a nightmare one day. I did hear on the radio today about the mosquitos. Its like just another blow on top of it all. Anyways, heres a margarita for you! Ok, I know its not the same.

[Tiramisu]

Originally Posted by celstu1

Its ok to complain.. unless you don't want to! Your family is in my prayers. I hope that things get better quicker. I could not imagine how you must feel. My heart goes out to everyone in Texas and surrounding areas for all the devastation and destruction Ike did. Hang in there, this will all be a nightmare one day. I did hear on the radio today about the mosquitos. Its like just another blow on top of it all. Anyways, heres a margarita for you! Ok, I know its not the same.

THANK YOU FOR THE MARGARITA. It's actually better than the real thing because it's the thought that counts.

[Tiramisu]

Still no electricity at our house, but we did get continuous water supply back and they are finally working in our area. I'm pretty sure we'll have power before Monday. I just want to go out of town this weekend, but Hubby wants to stay close and work on cutting up trees.

He hired a couple of guys to cut up the biggest tree and they finished last night. It's oak, so we're keeping the wood. Hubby's been dragging all the tree tops to piles in the back half acre. We'll have a huge bonfire when my son comes home next month.

I asked Hubby to push (with his tractor) about three huge logs, from the bottom of the tree, over by the kids swing set. They'll get a kick out of climbing and playing on those. I can already see them using them as stages to perform on!

[gja1000]

Hi Sandy,
I'm sorry your electricity isn't on yet - hopefully soon!!!

I really don't know a fruit tree that is also a good shade tree. I planted a Monterey Oak tree - sometimes called a Mexican Oak or White oak and it is doing so well. And it is very fast growing for an oak tree. Also, it is like the live oaks, in that it doesn't lose its leaves till spring as the new leaves come out. I highly recommend it.

We also planted a chinquapin oak which has grown very fast but it loses it leaves in the fall. We also planted a red oak - but it is slower growing and is more susceptible to oak wilt, although we don't have any in our neighborhood. I hear on the gardening radio show on Saturdays, the host recommending the lacy oak - but I personally don't know anything about it.

[Tiramisu]

Still no electricity. Still taking COLD showers and the ground is cooling, so I do mean COLD showers. I feel so much better that I was able to climb up onto the tractor (with one foot and crutches) and help Hubby with tree removal. I drive up to the log, Hubby rolls it into the front loader, and I go dump it by the pile that he'll eventually split into fire and pit wood. We won't need to buy wood for a few years.

I'm pretty sure that we'll have power today! I told me boss that I'll be taking a day or two off when we get power, so I can have somebody clean my house. My daughter will come help me give the doggies a good grooming.

I think we've decided to go back with live oaks to match the four we have left from that planting 15 years ago. We'll actually lose one more that is leaning too much towards the garage. But, it can wait until we get the others cleaned up.