Echoes of Ike

It has been about six weeks since we endured Hurricane Ike. The power went out today for the first time since it was restored after the storm. Almost immediately, all our neighbors were out in their driveways, talking to each other about the outage, their children playing in the street again.
We phoned the power company [...]

In the Street

Yes, I lived through Hurricane Ike. We “hunkered down” and sheltered in place. Other than having children, it is the scariest thing I have ever done. You see pictures on TV and in films of hurricanes, but having the thing blow over you is something quite different. Trees weighing 10,000 pounds were crashing down onto [...]