[madmaxx]

Hello everyone, I/we made. Second half of the hurricane was a monster, it hit and we huddled in the hall way. I sincerely appreciate all the thoughts you guys are great!!!!!!

As Mtpockets said trees and billions of pine cones down, luckly no flooding for me the surge was about 12 feet, lost alot of shingles and my neighbors weeping willow that I have fought for 8 years cutting it back got its revenge. It blew 35 30 gallon bags of crap on my house and gutters, the the icing on the cake is it was infested with honey bees so I got stung about 5 times trying to clean up the mess LOL!!!. My father in-law sailboat a Catilina 30 is on top of another sail boat at Seabrook shipyard about 6 miles from where I am at. I saw a beautifull 58 foot hatteres about a 500K boat parked between two houses the only problem is there was not a trailer!! Large boats are everywhere down on the east side of Nasa RD1, it will takes months with some large cranes to sort them. I got power back about noon today.

The real blessing is Houston has had a very very early cool front blow through, so instead of 95F and 75% humididity it has been 85F and 40% humididty. This gives everyone a break to get some sleep at night.

The bottom line is I am glad I rode it out to know what it is but now that I have been there and done that if there is any remote chance of anything greater than a two I am GONE. I have some great photos I will post. It is strange now that the power is back on everyone is back in their houses where last night we were all sitting out eating ribs and drinking beer and having a great time. Take the time to get to know your neighbors and thanks again for everyone this forum was a real stress releaver before that hurricane hit and took the edge off of it.