After IKE...

A lazy Sunday afternoon and all is well...Bob and Benjamin are at a friends house watching football and I am home with the baby doing "stuff"...all of a sudden an intense wind starts up...and does not stop for several hours. We lost electricity at about 2:30 pm and I just sat on the couch looking back and forth between the patio doors of the dining room and the floor to ceiling window in the living room. I had never seen anything like it...70-74 mph winds. No rain.
Fortunetly noone we know was hurt. there were several trees down on our block, but no houses or cars got hit. This is across the street from our house...Bob was over there 15 minutes after it happened, helping them saw the tree up and within a few hours, you never would have known it fell.




Benjamin in the thick of it...
wanting to help, but curious too...














One of the large trees that fell down the street...this was a typical site all over town-












Benjamin climbing the tree..."look at me mom"!



















Walking home from our exploration with treasures...the pot was down 2 blocks and belongs to us! The flower was gone daddy gone...












Later that evening as it began to get dark and it was lighter outside than in, people were all outside, kids were playing, neighbors were talking...and just hanging out. It was strange that it took having no electricity to get everyone out...
Bob went over to friends house and on the way home passed a Domino's pizza- so we had pizza by candlelight for dinner...it reminded me of being at the cabin and was actually kind of nice. No TV, no sounds except crickets and grasshoppers and fireengines and police cars...
We were told 800,000 people were without electricity! and that it would be 3-4 days before we got it back ...but when I woke up at 8:00, (for the second time that morning...) it was already on! We got lucky, not only are we next to a hospital but we are next to the largest Kroger in the world-
An interesting experience, that made me feel closer to people.