Tropical Storm

This weekend, Chris and I had plans to go to the demolition derby at the fairgrounds for the fair, but unfortunately, with Hurricane Ike going on in Houston, our plans got changed. We were not directly affected by the storm, but we did get some of the effects. We survived our first tropical storm. We were without power for most of the afternoon/evening on Saturday and then it came back on, but kept going back off on Sunday. It rained all day on Saturday. We got so much rain and some very high winds. We tried to take some pictures while it was happening, but we couldn't really ever get any could picturew where you could see the rain coming down. This morning, when we went out, we did see a little bit of damage. At our apartment, there were shrubs and tree branches all over the road and one tree that is totally leaning that used to stand up straight. Across the street from our apartments, there is a tree that fell over on top of a local business. All around the city, there were fences down and many trees that had limbs that had fallen on the ground and other trees that fell over completely. It is crazy. I can't imagine how it looks in Houston. I did get a little worried last night because they were saying it was possible for Texarkana to get some tornadoes, but it ended up being all clear, luckily!!! I don't particularly want to go through one of those. It is so crazy when it rains here, it really comes down. Below are just a couple of pictures we took this morning. Looking at the blue skies, you would never know we had a huge storm yesterday.


This is a picture of the tree that used to stand perfectly straight.


Some leftover debris on the road even after some clean up had already been done.