A bit of our life, in words.

So I posted to our blog here and twitter almost immediately when I started broadcasting a view of the hurricane action from here in Katy, and Google picked it up really fast. It wasn’t long before people had visited saying they found the video through Google, and according to Google Analytics, through this blog! Pretty awesome… gotta love the internet.

Traffic here spiked 1500% on Sept 12 and 2600% on Sept 13. I hope it helped some people who were worried about their homes or family know what was happening in Katy at the time. I wish I had more batteries so I could have kept it going during the thick of it! Damage to Katy from Hurricane Ike was light. Only one house in our neighborhood had any damage to it, and even that was just a few shingles on the roof being blow over.

Our power was out from about 3:30AM and was restored about 11:45am. We didn’t go very long without it compared to others. Our little tree in our front yard made it OK. The two Ash trees I planted in our backyard had just about all their leaves taken off, but are otherwise ok. The big elephant ear plants in our backyard are ripped to shreds though.

So Pam and I have now gone through our first hurricane! Definitely an experience.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to those who were more affected by Ike than we were.