On Sunday Sept. 14th, the remnants of hurricane Ike came through our area! can you believe it. I thought I was through with Hurricanes and tropical storms after leaving Florida! thanks to Ike and another pressure system, we experienced high winds (no rain) and power outages. We were with out power from Sunday until Thursday night. Some people are still without power. School was out for the whole week. The Lord blessed us with beautiful weather during the week and we enjoyed finding creative ways to cook, shower(no hot
water) and entertain ourselves. The kids played with their cousins and we colored by candlelight while reading scriptures. with the weather so nice, most of the time was spent outside....playing basket ball, playing at the neighbors and making "houses" out of the broken tree limbs that had fallen to the ground.
Mark bought 8 cans of gas, the first day. It was a good thing, gas was hard to get the next day.
Our Hickory tree lost a few limbs
Robin and Jason had to cut down their whole tree .
All I can say is than goodness for Generators.It was a great learning experience! To see how prepared we were. Many people had much worse damage and difficulties. Many people lost all the food they had in their fridge and freezers.
It was wonderful to see people work together. I love to see us unite together, especially when times are difficult. there is one group of families that live close together, some of them had electricity and others did not. One family had a trailer and they went to every one that didn't have electricity and collected their freezers and drove them to houses with electricity. I can just imagine some garage filled with several freezers. Some houses supplying electricity for families to plug in crock pots for their dinners.
Home teachers checking on their families and helping clean up damage. Making sure each family had a way to cook and sustain themselves. Visiting teachers checking on the "emotional" :) well being of each other (needless to say.....we needed a play date at the park for the kids...or was it for the moms...?) There were generators loaned out, freezer space offered, laundry "maids" for those in need. (my mom took all of my laundry and did it before she left for her trip when she received her power)
There is much power and strength in numbers and how the Lord does bless us with these experiences to bind us and bond us. We become more aware of what's most important in life....each other
