lights out!

Thanks to the after-effects of Hurricane Ike, we had a pretty major wind storm here yesterday. Trees were down all over the city causing power outages to nearly every area. With all the huge old trees in our neighborhood (and our back yard) we were lucky to not have sustained any damage, but there were a lot of leaves and branches in our yard and, oh yeah, we were without electricity for close to thirty hours! Much of the city is still dark, including Sarah's sister Katie, and the power company is saying it may be up to a week before everyone is back up and running.
Our biggest concern was all the food in our refrigerator that we'd just bought late last week. Fortunately, most everything was salvageable, which made us feel much better.
After hearing about some of the damage and problems that others were experiencing, we felt very lucky that keeping our food cold was all we had to worry about. It's really interesting how much you appreciate things we take for granted, like electricity in our home, when we don't have them, even for a relatively short period of time...