There were two little crabs who met in Florida every year. One year when they arrived, one little crab was shivering terribly. The other crab asked why and he said, "I got a ride here on a man's moustache. He drove so fast, I was freezing."
"Well," the other crab said, "why don't you hide up a lady's skirt next year. Then you won't be as cold."
The little crab said, "Hey, that isn't a bad idea."
A year later, the two crabs met at the same place, and the one little crab was shivering very badly again. The other crab asked if he had taken his advice and he said, "Yeah, I went and hid up a lady's skirt, but when I woke up in the morning I was on that's guy's moustache again!"
hehehe.. dirrrrrrty....
Anyway.. GET EXCITED.. Lauren's makin' a blog entry.
Well, my birthday came and went.. had to be in the middle of the dang hurricane. We still have a MASSIVE.. and I mean MASSIVE tree down in our back yard but I thank God every day that nothing worse happened because we got very lucky.
Let me explian:
The tree hung over my parents bedroom on the north corner of our house, the trunk was probably about 10 feet away but it had huge branches that were right over the house. The powerline that supplies us with power runs to that corner. Our propane gas tank is about 5 feet away on the other side of the tree. Somehow even though every other tree that fell in our yard fell directly SOUTH (if this tree were to fall south it would have landed on the house and destroyed my parents bedroom, bathroom, and possibly my bedroom as well.) this tree fell SOUTH EAST.. almost completely missing the house. And somehow the roots had magically grown in about a ten foot radius of the tree everywhere EXCEPT where the propane tank was, it was completely untouched. If those roots would have been under that tank.. who knows what would have happened.. probably a really huge explosion. As far as the powerlines go, it did land on the line, and mess up the weatherhead, but somehow we still ended up getting partial power back the Monday after the storm, and full power back within the next few days.. with a little help... Just try and tell me that someone wasn't watching out for us during the storm. Oh, and during those days that we didn't have power, God blessed us with a cool front so it wasn't REDICULOSLY hot and humid.. ...now if that doesn't make you a believer...
So thats my little hurricane Ike story. It left so much damage and devistation in this area, and I know I haven't even seen the half of it. Two weeks out I think there are still somewhere around a million people without power, and in Bridge City where my boyfriend Corey has family, there are four thousand houses and only fourteen of them don't have flood damage. And thats just one small city.
Hell, BUZZFEST was cancelled because of hurricane damage, and the venue for it was in the Woodlands.. I bet they never anticipated hurricane damage up there.
Everything is slowly returning to normal in our part of town. The back half of our neighborhood is still without power, and I guess because of all the water it brought and the weather lately the mosqiuitos are insane. But thats about it, Corey's sick so I'm about to leave to take care of him. I may have tickets to the last Astros game Sunday YEEEEAAAHH.. I'm super excited about that. And we're going to Metallica towards the end of November :) OH and Corey got me a new digital camera for my birthday!!! I love it... and as soon as I find out how to put stuff on the coputer I'll post some pictures. I can't promise anything though.
Well you have to be getting bored by now..
Adios!
