Ike blows through

Well Hurricane Ike visited us on Sunday. He was still a big blowhard by the time he got here even through we didn't get any much needed rain out of it. The wind broke one of the trees in the front yard in half and sent it toward the front of the trailer. Luckily, it broke far enough up and was far enough away that only the tips of the leaves brushed against the front door on the way down. We would have been MAJORLY screwed if the trailer had been hit, since it is too old to be insurable.

We lost power around 8 Sunday morning. It took until noon today to get power back. Could be worse, I guess. A lot of customers who live in Kentucky came through my line yesterday and said they were told it was going to be a week before they got power back. It seems their utilities sent crews to Texas to help there, and didn't have enough manpower to fix their own problems.

Back to normal, though. Really makes you appreciate flush toilets.