Sunset on Hurricane Ike

Snapped a photo of Saturday nights sunset:

We were busy watching the ending of a movie when I snapped this photo. We had started it Friday, prepared and bored, just waiting for Ike to hit, when the power went out at 9:00pm. The storm hit us and pounded on our house from about midnight to 6:00am - Gary slept through it all. We were fairly comfortable (no air conditioning) since we did not heed the advice to sleep in an interior room of the house - which would have been our laundry room or one of our master bedroom closets and just slept in our beds. Although Gary did put a pad in each of our closets so if it got really bad (or, I guess if he woke up) we could go in there and sleep.

We came out just fine - even my plant morgue doesn't look too bad. The boys were bored all day with no power, no air conditioning - with just books and a radio to keep us updated. The radio had said power might not be restored to some areas for 2 - 3 weeks. We were mortified ... and luckily, not one of them. Our power came back on that evening at about 6:00pm.

We were without cable TV or internet, so unable to watch the news still, but just having air conditioning and not losing everything in our fridge and freezer made it seem trivial. Many people, even in our ward and surrounding areas still do not have power - so all the more thankful.

Internet arrived Sunday about 24 hours after power was restored - so now: completely back to normal.

Thanks for your e-mails (got them on my phone), phone calls, concern, thoughts and prayers.