Hurricane Ike

We survived! Since they did not have a mandatory evacuation for our zip code, we decided to stay and stick it out. Welost power yesterday about 5:00 and it came back on this morning about 6:30. Thank goodness the hurricane brought some cool wind with it; we didn't sweat too bad last night. However, at about 3 a.m I heard the shingles ripping off our roof! A little while later, water was driiping from our ceiling...from everywhere... out the vents,the light fixtures, out the ceiling fans. We have buckets and bowls everywhere trying to catch the water. When we finally could go out side to assess the damage we saw that most of our roof was in our front yard! There are shingles everywhere. Lake slept through the whole thing. When he he woke this morning, he kept saying "Uh,Oh!" and then he started dumping out all the bowls and buckets of water on the floor; that little stinker! We had also used his plastic pool as a water catcher and what do you think he did....yep, jumped in and said he was swimming. On a sad note, we were supposed to close on our Lake House on Friday and that was postponed. The Lake Livingston area got hit pretty hard and we are very nervous about our little cabin. We are going to drive up there tonight to see it its still standing. Everyone pray thats its o.k., Jeff and I had big dreams for our little cabin on the lake; it reminds us so much of Tennessee. Anyways, just wanted everyone to know we were O.K. Stay tuned for pictures of the damage.....