"Icky Ike!"

Ok, so there's so many pictures I'm not gonna put them in order I'll just describe them! I didn't put many pictures in of the damage b/c its hard to get detail on wet spots in a ceiling and wall, the water restoration people had a fancy camera and took good pictures for us for the adjuster.

For a couple of days after Ike the weather was cool so the boys got to play outside a lot to take up time b/f the daylight was gone.The front room ready to be loaded up in the truck for storage.
Just a few of the ladies who came to the rescue from our church. I had just finished unpacking the office and was in the process of filing papers into the file cabinet....when the water started coming in it all got thrown into the closet so now its all back in boxes to be unpacked and sorted again at a later date!
Snack by candlelight the night after Ike....the camera flash was brighter than the candles!
A shingle that had been lodged into our fence, it was actually tougher to pull out than I thought it would be.
Pool cleanup...Jon Michael didn't get the picture of me after I fell off the steps into the COLD water....notice who's in the water by the way? I don't know if you can tell but the water is overflowing on the side I'm standing in b/c there had been so much rain. Jonathan originally was in shorts to help get into the water but we found a snake and bees or wasps by the waterfall.
Apparently when you're stuck inside for days its so funny to put silly putty into your ears and then scream to see how things sound different!
Tearing up wet carpet...me again doing the dirty work...Jonathan was working and it helped to relieve stress to tear things out!

The boys sleeping through the storm, this was the third place Jalyn had slept that night b/c of the storm and leaks.....they never knew a thing.

An attempt to contain some of the stinky water. This is before the second night of rain and more buckets were added.
Using the last little bit of daylight to color.
Before the pool cleanup was finished, tons of shingles and shingle grit, and other people's leaves and trees branches.
The street signs going into our subdivision.

That's all the pictures for now....we've got tons of pictures of trees on powerlines and trees that fell and busted brick fencing, the trees down at Jon Michaels school, etc.....

Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers and offers of help! We are SO lucky compared to others so we really are pleased with how we came out of the storm.