Post-Ike Post

OK, we've got the Pre-Ike Post, then the Ike post, now its time for a Post-Ike Post. By mid-afternoon on Saturday after the storm it had calmed down enough that everyone was out of their houses and wandering around, so we wandered out ourselves to take a look at the damage. Our neighbors that we had dinner with the night before were just starting their tour, so we joined them and took some pictures of the neighborhood.

Here's the front corner of the house. The pecan tree seems a little light in leaf department (more on that later).

You can see a couple of our small trees are leaning from the wind and the ground being so soft from the water. Its hard to tell from this angle, but the fence is leaning out away from the house at a pretty good angle also. We stood the trees back up and braced them, but I wasn't about to take on the fence with my bare hands. Its still leaning.

There are some pretty good sized office buildings just a block or two away from us. The black one is 1 block down and one over from our house, it lost all of the sheet metal from the top super structure of the building. The sheet metal was laying all over the neighborhood.

On the other side of the black building we came upon this fence all ripped out and twisted like a big whirly-gig. (I don't know what that's supposed to be.)

Later in the afternoon we got out for a short drive. This is the bridge over Buffalo Bayou, looking east toward downtown. This is about 15 or so blocks south of the house. The bayou is normally about 30 feet wide. You can see that it expanded some to accomodate all of the rain.