Even Ike couldn't stop "Happy"
Oh yeah, baby...I got lights now!!!! As everyone knows Galveston and Texas City took a direct hit from Hurricane Ike. Thankfully we made it here in Texas City although we did lose our beloved dike. It's going to be hard to imagine Texas City without our dike. But we are safe and we survived it. For that I will forever be eternally grateful to God Almighty.
The strangest thing is that all the trees that fell, missed the houses by a few feet or even inches. It was just really odd. All of my trees in my back yard are gone. I had a 35' tree completely uprooted. It tore down all the power lines to my house and the one next door, but it missed the house next door by inches! I had huge tree limbs lying on my back step, but they missed the house. The only damage I got was from pecans. Yes, pecans. My neighbor has a pecan tree and it threw so many pecans off of it that it knocked some shingles off of my house. Marie, there has to be a song there somewhere.
I am so proud to live here in Texas. I have never seen the type of kindness that there is here. Neighbors helping neighbors, people helping people.I wish that life could just stay this way. It was actually joyful to watch it. I cried at the way that people treated each other so kindly. Sometimes it was the little things, like letting someone go ahead of them in line at the store, or a neighbor who did have power with a generator letting the other neighbors use it to charge up their cell phones. I was even out there in my wheelchair raking up leaves in my neighbors yard and mine and getting everything to the curb. There are a lot of elderly people on our block, so we just all chipped in and cut limbs, raked leaves, bagged them, so by the time they got back home, they wouldn't have to worry about anything. Now my back yard is a another story, but oh well.
Since all I had to listen to was a battery powered radio, I heard about a couple who, he was in the military and home on a short leave and their wedding was orginally planned for Friday. Well, obviously, everything had to be cancelled because they no longer had a town to be married in and now they were running out of time. Within 2 hours of this story being broadcast on the radio, the couple had a complete wedding donated to them by various companies that were fortunate enough to have power. Everything from the limo driver, to the wedding dress and the tuxedos, bridesmaids dresses, flowers, linens, catered reception, honeymoon suite. You name it, they had it. I was so overwelmed with the generosity of the people of Houston and the surrounding areas. It was beautiful to see such goodness in so many people. I just had to share this happy story with you all."Happy" made it even through a hurricane.
Oh, and I pray that you all made it through it. Please let me know how you are. I'm going to be worried about you all until I hear from you.
The strangest thing is that all the trees that fell, missed the houses by a few feet or even inches. It was just really odd. All of my trees in my back yard are gone. I had a 35' tree completely uprooted. It tore down all the power lines to my house and the one next door, but it missed the house next door by inches! I had huge tree limbs lying on my back step, but they missed the house. The only damage I got was from pecans. Yes, pecans. My neighbor has a pecan tree and it threw so many pecans off of it that it knocked some shingles off of my house. Marie, there has to be a song there somewhere.
I am so proud to live here in Texas. I have never seen the type of kindness that there is here. Neighbors helping neighbors, people helping people.I wish that life could just stay this way. It was actually joyful to watch it. I cried at the way that people treated each other so kindly. Sometimes it was the little things, like letting someone go ahead of them in line at the store, or a neighbor who did have power with a generator letting the other neighbors use it to charge up their cell phones. I was even out there in my wheelchair raking up leaves in my neighbors yard and mine and getting everything to the curb. There are a lot of elderly people on our block, so we just all chipped in and cut limbs, raked leaves, bagged them, so by the time they got back home, they wouldn't have to worry about anything. Now my back yard is a another story, but oh well.
Since all I had to listen to was a battery powered radio, I heard about a couple who, he was in the military and home on a short leave and their wedding was orginally planned for Friday. Well, obviously, everything had to be cancelled because they no longer had a town to be married in and now they were running out of time. Within 2 hours of this story being broadcast on the radio, the couple had a complete wedding donated to them by various companies that were fortunate enough to have power. Everything from the limo driver, to the wedding dress and the tuxedos, bridesmaids dresses, flowers, linens, catered reception, honeymoon suite. You name it, they had it. I was so overwelmed with the generosity of the people of Houston and the surrounding areas. It was beautiful to see such goodness in so many people. I just had to share this happy story with you all."Happy" made it even through a hurricane.
Oh, and I pray that you all made it through it. Please let me know how you are. I'm going to be worried about you all until I hear from you.
Remember your niece that thought she was going to be sent to your area for insurance claims and she got sent to Conn. instead? Remember she had Gustuv and Ike to deal with. Well, she's been working three weeks now, working 12 hours a day, 6 1/2 days a week to help handle the claims. Well, sista, it turns out you are not the only one that has pneumonia. Yep, your niece got the dreadful pneumonia while working on Hurricane Ike claims. I was so worried about her climbing up on damaged roofs, walking thru contaminated water, living in hotel w/o elec., having to eat food provided by the Red Cross or Salvation Army and wonderful other people, etc.,like on the scene people are. I guess I should have been worried about her sitting in a room with 100 people from all over the country. Not that you get pneumonia from other people, I know that. Just that she's worn down and her immune system just couldn't fight off her allergies anymore and this happened. She didn't get sent to Tx. where she would have been exposed to all kinds of things, instead, she goes to Conn. and ends up with pneumonia. Go figure. Now, she's scheduled to come home on Monday and the NC coast is going thru some stormy weather.
Do you see a pattern here? Pneumonia, bad weather? I'm just saying....?ya know I luv ya- Kathy
Ia she in the hospital. Oh my prayers are with her. I only pray that her's didn't hurt just like mine. If I hadn't had run that fever, I would never had known I had it.I had no pain, cough or anything. My dr said that it was the type of bacterial strain that even the shot wouldn't have prevented. She'll have her mama to take care of her as soon as she's home. No amount of hard work is worth getting sick over but when we're young, we think we can work 1000 hrs a week. I pray that she gets better soon. With the right meds it will take about a week to 10 days. IF you rest. I hope she reads this so she knows how much I love her and will be praying for her speedy recovery.