Ike aftermath

Here are a few images of the neighborhood in the week following the storm. All related photos are in the Hurricane Ike gallery.

After

The pool's water turned an opaque green overnight.

The dog and I finally went home late Saturday afternoon, when the rain had pretty much stopped. I found my yard carpeted in leaves and branches, some 4 or 5 feet long, but at least all of my windows and the fence were intact. The foliage formed two pretty large piles once I raked it all together.

Before

The dog and I stayed with friends in an apartment complex during the storm. I felt that their complex would be a safer place to be than my free-standing apartment with its numerous windows.





The complex's lawn chairs were placed in the pool and the grills laid on their sides before Ike hit.

The storm started in the evening and continued overnight. We lost power around 1am and went to bed shortly afterwards. I woke up around 4am, when I think the worst of what we got was passing over us. The wind and rain were pretty intense, and out the window I could see green flashes in the sky as the transformers failed. It's hard, in retrospect, to remember what was actually scary about it, but I have to admit that I was a little afraid. My rational mind knew that we were safe in the building we were in, but instinct won and I curled up under the covers with the dog, as far away from the window as I could get.