Evacuation photos

During the recent hurricane we were taken in by Sam's parents in Austin for a few days. Four kids, six adults and two dogs. A little crowded but everyone had a great time. We would like to thank the Ferrel's for their kind hospitality. Without their offer of a place to stay we'd have to have bunked out at the Super 8 with the other million Houstonites.

We spent most of our spare time watching the weather channel. When the weather channel broadcasts live from your home town...it's time to call your insurance agent.




We took the kids to the local state park to run off some energy








Karen thought about trying her first step.

Later in the week we took a trip to the "Ferrel Family Compound" lots of horses and puppies for the kids to play with.





When we finally re-vacuated we found very little damage to our property.


We put the kids to work...

Some were not so lucky...

We ended up loosing power for 13 days while the electrical crews made sense of the spaghetti dinner that was our power system.

We had a generator hooked up to the house. We used it to power the kid's computer so that they could play "spore". No lights...just spore.

Eventually the lights came on and I shaved my evacuation beard.