Hurricane Ike

I never experience a hurricane or tornado in my life untill 4 days ago. On the morning of September 13, 2008, the eye of Hurricane Ike approached the Texas coast near Galveston Bay, making landfall at 2:10 a.m. Unfortunately, Harris County where we live is in the direct path of this disaster. Although we did not called for the evacuation but you can see ppl are busy preparing for the storms. Everyone rushed into the gas station & grocery stores. There's long queue in every gas station. Waters, breads, can foods, ices, batteries, genarators, candles, torch lights, charcoals, propane, plywoods & etc are all running out. We have to go to several stores to get what we need.

We are suppose to go to a retreat meeting in Dallas but due to this disaster, we decided to stay and get well preparation before it hits. I am so glad that Hsian stay back with us instead of heading to Dallas for the meeting. Anna said this to us before the hurricane hit, she said "think about being together but not afraid of the crowded highway" and that is really true. there's too many ppl evacuated from the southern part of Texas and the traffic was really really bad.

Sister, Scott and baby Euan stay wil us before the hurricane hit. We just want to go thru this together. Plus the 2 pine trees infront of their house is just too fragile that they look like they gonna fell anytime in the wind speed that travel 100 miles/hours.

The hurricane hit our neighborhood at around 5-6am. raining all day and the power went off for 3-4 days in our area. it was so humid and hot till none of us gets enough sleeps during the disaster. Fortunately Hsian has this backup system that we use it during the camping trip where we can use our car engine to power up our fridge to prevent the foods got spoiled or tv and a light in the same time & that really help us alot.

His mind of course keep thinking about business. He wanted to go to Austin and get a few generators and bring it back and sell it to the ppl that needs it but at the end we didnt have time to do so because there's so much to clean up after the hurricane hit. and we have this curfew going on, noone is suppose to hang around from 9pm till 6am, we are urge to stay home.

we took some pictures in our neigborhood. we are so fortunate that there's not much damage in both our homes.

I never listen to a weather channel for such a long hours in my life before =p we are so blessed that everyone of us in the family is safe and the good thing about it is we spend our time together as a family with sis they all.

let's pray for the ppl out there esp in Cuba, Southern part of Texas and everyone in this disaster.