HartlessByDesign

Day 6 and we have power.  Yay!

We are home now. We received a call from a neighbor that power was back on so we decided to come home. We found the power off when we arrived but it was back on within a couple hours of being home. The Lord really spared us from significant damage. Houses in our neighborhood had their fences knocked over, shutters blown off, gutters fallen down, and decent roof damage. Our windows, shutters, and gutters were all intact. Our fence is still standing and our roof also seems intact. Our pecan tree in the back yard was broken in half falling over onto our neighbors shed but with no apparent damage. Our neighbors are great and we will be working together tomorrow to cut up the tree.

 

 

The Lord has really blessed and spared us which we are greatly thankful for. Thank you for your prayers!

My wife's school is closed till further notice. Galveston Island where I work took a major hit with significant damage. I do not know when I will be able to return to work. Right now, our patients (inmates) are in private hospitals. I do not expect Texas to keep them in such facilities for an extended period of time but will most likely transfer them to other prison medical units around the state of Texas. If that happens, I may be called upon to go with them which I am not keen on for I will have to leave my wife for who knows how long. I know nothing for sure at this point but am speculating on what will take place. Please pray for a speedy recovery for I will go without pay until things are back in order.

We are still in San Antonio. We were able to get in touch with our neighbors. They said that we may need to replace our roof but they didn't see any window damage and our fence is intact. Our pecan tree in the backyard split and is laying over onto their shed in their backyard but no damage. It sounds like we have been really blessed!

Prayerfully there will not be any damage from leakage.

Houston is still saying we cannot return so we are going to stay in San Antonio till Monday.

My father in law was able to get in touch with a friend living near by who checked out his property.  He said that all was fine.  The only noticeable damage was a sheet of metal that blew off of his garage. There were no signs of flooding. Praise God!

We have not heard about our own property although some forum posters have stated that there are some fallen trees, down fences, and damaged but intact roofs in our sub-division. We are trying to get a hold of the wife of our neighbor is who a volunteer firefighter who stayed in the area for obvious reasons.

Well, we were under a mandatory evacuation thus left for San Antonio yesterday. Thankfully, we and Eda's parents were able to get into two of the last 8 rooms available. We are currently safe in San Antonio. Prayerfully our properties will not sustain significant damage.

We will not be able to return home until we are cleared to do so which is projected to be a minimal of 72 hours. Thus we do not know when we will be leaving San Antonio to return home. I'm sure school for Eda will be closed for at least a week but I do not know how quickly the hospital I work for will reopen and our patients brought back.

Please pray that the Lord protects all those people that decided to stay and our properties.