It's starting!

I'm so excited to live in a place where the leaves officially change color! I can't wait to watch all the changes unfold. These are a few trees in our neighborhood.

UPDATE ON SCOTT AND PAIGE

Here is an update about Scott and Paige since they can't really post much without electricity. They both returned to their home yesterday and found that no water had penetrated the house. They lost more of their fence than they were led to believe and the tree in the front yard took quite a thrashing insomuch that Scott thinks it will get the chain saw. They had gas and water yesterday but still no electricity in spite of promises.

About 17% of students in one of Scott's classes (of about 100 kids or so) said they still didn't have power when polled by their teacher. The main damage in their neighborhood is tree limbs which are piled high on each side of the street waiting to be collected by the city or FEMA. Lots of billboards have their ads hanging off. Paige said Walmart's freezer section was empty.

Scott said the biggest inconvenience of being w/o power is no A/C, not being able to charge their phones and computers, and no frig. The weather hasn't been too horribly hot so they are surviving sleeping with just the windows open. So let's all pray their power comes on tomorrow. Hang in there Scott and Paige!

Pray for Scott and Paige

Yikes. Hurricane Ike is going to be an unwelcome visitor for Scott and Paige. They are under a mandatory evacuation as of noon today. They live in Webster, southeast of Houston, if you want to look it up on a map. Before they leave Scott will try to get the windows boarded up with plywood the previous owners left. I assume they will go to Paige's folk's house in Dallas. The traffic is likely to be horrific even with the contraflows. I'm sure they will appreciate all your prayers.

Posting can be a burden

What do you think about posts without pictures? Don't even bother? Better than nothing?