Before we came to town, they had already spent three long days cleaning up limbs from the yard and setting them on the curb for the trash people to pick up. Their neighborhood is looking pretty good except for all the fences that are down. We helped them go through all the privacy fence panels out back and salvage any boards they could reuse when they replace the fence. Other than the fence and the tree out front, they didn't have any significant damage. All day we talked about how blessed they were compared to the people of Galveston. That area was really devastated.
We spent the afternoon driving around looking at some of the damage in other neighborhoods and saw mostly the same thing - downed trees and privacy fences. Then we drove over to Kemah. It's a tourist area on the water with lots and lots of boats, restaurants, outdoor bands that play in a boardwalk area, and carnival type rides. What a mess!!! Boats blown around like toys, and mud and trash everywhere. One of the long time restaurants, T-Bone Tom's, had a sign that said "Open Someday." Another place had a sign that said "What Surge?" in reference to the 20 foot wall of water that caused so much flooding. Most businesses had their furniture sitting in the parking lot while they tried to clean up the water damage inside, and they were doing this without electricity.
As we drove home, Kirby's Mom said again how blessed they were to not have anywhere near the damage other people had. So, if you read this, pray for the residents of the Texas gulf. They still have a long way to go before they get back to normal.
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