Ike

Our Ike story...
Friday night Charlie taught karate like normal Nathan and Bridget plus daughter Ellie stayed the night. Saturday morning the weather was ok sunny and looking like normal. Around 12pm it started getting dark and 12.30 pm a loud boom and bye bye power. Luckily the boys had picked up pizza on the way back from getting Landon (our nephew who evacuated from Lake Charles came over to stay with us). So we found all the candles and flashlights to prepare for the storm. Later that afternoon the rain and wind started. It would get rainy and then stop then rainy then stop. Around 5pm the air sirens went off and the wind picked up quite a bit. Nathan and Bridget deciede to pack up and head back to Natchitoches before they got stuck in Shreveport for the night again. So Charlie, Landon, Mrs Dana, and I sat on the back porch and watched the weather. Right about dark Mrs. Dana saw a dog run across our lawn and we open the garage door to look and a tiny chiwawa came darting into our house. The little dog was soaking wet and scared to death out in the bad weather. So we let him stay looked for his owners for a few days and finally gave him to our neighbor when we could not find her owners. The rest of the night was pretty scarry very heavy winds lots of rain. Our power stayed off for 4 days, but luckily the weather was beautiful!!!!!!!! Our house survived with no damage thank goodness, but tons of houses around us had roof and tree damage. So thats a short version of our Ike experience....