14Sep 2008 by Kaylene 3 Comments

Still Sinking In

Aiden, Grief and Loss, Health Concerns, Life in Texas, Me, Memories, Michael, To new beginnings
I don't think people realize how much this storm has effected this community.  I'm grateful there are not more deaths, but it will take us a while to recover from all of this.  There's a very somber mood about. People are panicking as they run out of supplies that they hadn't thought of.  I've seen a lot of alcohol, which isn't normal to me. We need to boil water for a while, but have enough water pressure to do dishes and laundry again.  We still have a bit of bottled water though we are starting to ration the boys on that. We're still "stuck at home" and Michael and Kevin are off the school and work hook tomorrow, well unless Kevin needs to run a short update. We feel so…
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13Sep 2008 by Kaylene 7 Comments

Our Ike Experience

Aiden, Baby Joey, Family, Grief and Loss, Kevin, Kevin and I, Life in Texas, Me, Memories, Michael, The end is near, To new beginnings
Hand written at 7 this morning~ At 10:30 we lost power lastnight, it came back on but our cable and internet never came back.  At about 11:45 we lost power for the night.  It would flicker on for a few seconds, but ultimately continuously lost power.  Kevin and I finally made it to bed at about 1, and didn't get to sleep because of the noise for a while longer, well and Joey was busy kicking each of us, but in that noise I couldn't just leave him in the other room... Around 3:30 AM the wind REALLY picked up and Kevin had another coughing fit.  He and I both got up to explore what's going on.  We managed to accidentally wake the boys, decided to move them into the…
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12Sep 2008 by Kaylene No Comments

Pre Hurricane Pictures

Life in Texas, Pictures
Here's my Early AM pics of Ike. None have been post processed, maybe I'll get to that later. 7:00, he's still just on the horizon. A chopper that kept flying overhead. After sunrise, 8:45 The clouds are getting bigger and closer, but still could be mistaken for any other day's clouds.  Looks like I have some sensor dust. And just now, about 10:35, still sunny and just a touch of breeze. Looking South-SouthWest. Looking directly East. My shadow, told you it's sunny. :)
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12Sep 2008 by Kaylene 2 Comments

Be Prepared

Family, Family Fun, Life in Texas, Me, Memories
We're supposed to start getting bad weather about 11 AM our time, so the countdown is on. OK, people have been asking, so I'm going to detail what we've got stored, and what we're up to. I've got a pantry full of food, at least 70 cans of food, 10# of meat in my freezer (which will be getting grilled), plenty of veggies in the freezer 4 cases of bottled water, and we'll have a few more gallons stores of drinking water, and two tubs full for flushing and washing up by tonight, two giant bags of charcoal, two normal size ones, a bag of mesquite chips, a grill, a long burning log, three chaffing dish warmers (or whatever those little can cooking things are), matches, several lighters (the long…
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11Sep 2008 by Kaylene 4 Comments

…everything’s going to be fine, fine, fine…

Aiden, Baby Joey, Family, Kevin and I, Life in Texas, Me, Michael
In all MY panic, I forgot to mention that we've prayed about it and we feel good and safe about staying.  Things are a bit crazy, but overall we feel like things will turn out just fine. It's funny cause as I was at the store I was listening to my iPod, and the song by Alanis Morissette came on, "Hand In My Pocket"  And it says "What it all comes down to, is everything's going to be fine, fine, fine."  And I feel peace that it will be. :) For those who might not know exactly where Houston is in this giant state.  Here's a map.  It looks like we're really going to be getting a direct hit.
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11Sep 2008 by Kaylene 4 Comments

A little bit of Panic

Aiden, Baby Joey, Bella and Edward, Family, Family Fun, Humor, Kevin, Kevin and I, Life in Texas, Me, Memories, Michael, Pictures, The end is near, Twilight
The area that we used to live in, just twenty something miles away was evacuated this morning, but we've been told to "shelter in place," so unless there's some other mandate, we're sticking around.  When Allison was here 7 years ago our home was safe (we know the woman who lived here at the time) so that's somewhat comforting. Little Aiden is sick with a head cold.  He's not doing to well with that, I don't want to consider cramming him (and the rest of us) in the car for a long evacuation.  So gratefully we're hopefully not doing that. We were already well stocked and ready, but I went to the grocery store this morning to pick up just a few more things, a long burning fire log, another…
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