I, Alive, I think?

[nhspike]

Glad you're ok Bengal65!!!

[Ben...]

Holy! That's crazy! You're lucky nothing insane happened to you're house(roof tearing off, vehicle through the wall, stuff like that). Too bad about the neighbor's house. Hey, it looks like you got a free trampoline though!

**Please Note: This is coming from a person who lives in one of the safest places in the world when it comes to this stuff. We can't get hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, tsunamis or anything like that because we're about as far from the ocean as you can get, are in the middle of a tectonic plate and basically on a hill so all water just flows away. The only threat we have is tornadoes, which only occur about twice a year in the middle of some obscure farmer's field.**

Edit: I guess we gotta deal with -50 degree Celsius temperatures though(walking home for 25 minutes when there is a wind chill of -45 isn't so fun, I completely froze the tip of my right ear.). Then again, I like the cold. I hate hot weather! My theory is that with cold, you can always add more layers of clothing. With hot, you can only remove so much before you just overheat.

[Bengal65]

Back on-line. Major house damage, but livable. Fences down, tree's down etc.. Power back on at 11:20AM today. The neighbors house lost the roof, but they survived Ok though. They are at a FEMA motel until they can get a new house built. Finally, got some sleep last night after being up since Thursday night. Worked at covering my roof with tarps yesterday and drying out the interior. I worked quickly and got some help yesterday. Thank God the weather cleared out the rain was terrible. My guitars and equipment survived only because I moved stuff from room to room, trying to beat the water that was pouring in. I was able to contain it, and thanks to the cool front that came in, thus the rain had stopped.

I've got a 30' diameter trampoline in my front yard that came from somewhere. That trampoline is huge. It's wedged between my house and my big pine tree in my front yard. Luckily, it missed the house and my truck.

We got the highest winds here on the west side of Houston out of the storm. Galveston, as you know is on the TV due to the storm surge, but the winds here West of town were the worst. My neighbor has a 2 story and his roof was torn off. I just lost all the composition tiles, I would imagine since I was much lower with a single story.

I was out today through the neighborhood. It looks like a war zone.

Sitting here waiting for the claims adjuster......

I hope everyone was else is OK!