Jeanne! I Hope to Never See Her Again!

Well, it has been a crazy month. It is amazing how strong wind can be and how scarey it can sound in the dead of night, as your house groans under its blasts. In the morning even though you could see that all the houses in the neighborhood were standing, not all of them were livable. Many houses sustained serious roof damage, mostly lost shingles and tar paper. Some did not fair as well and lost parts of their roofs. At least two families in our church lost sections of their roofs during the storm and had to scramble to other parts of the house or desparately try to catch the pouring rain into puckets through the night.

The street I live on became a river where the waves lapped on to shore, which was my lawn. It was about 2' to 3' deep. Debris made up of shingles, soffitting and pine tree branches littered the neighborhood. The storm was finally gone but now we have no power or phone and the task of cleaning up and trying to get back to normal.

I am still without power and making my posts from work which has power. I trust that God is looking after us and that despite the difficulties we are still very blessed!

Catching Jeanne!

Here is my friend Phill catching wind from Jeanne.

I Have Seen Jeanne and She is Mean!

Right now I am sittnig here with my friends Phillip and Tina and my wife. We are at my house. Jeanne is barrelling down on us. Winds have picked up and the hurricane's eye will be here in a couple of hours. What a blast! NOT!!! This is getting old but I trust that God is looking after us and that all will be well. This to shall pass. Hopefully I will continue to have power so that I can blog periodically during the hurricance but I have my doubts.

Ivan Shmivan!

Well, here we go again. Ivan, the newest threat to Florida, is almost here. This is extremely humorous (sort of). This has got to make history. Three hurricanes hitting Florida in less then a month. Craziness! I tell ya! It is getting as regular as an afternoon thunderstorm.

Last night I went out to get gas for my car. The only place that had gas was Sam's. My father-in-law (great guy) has a membership there so I was able to get him to take me to get my car filled up. There is also a free water station here. We still have all the supplies from the last hurricane so we are ready. Bring it on!

Hurricane Frances (Gone At Last!)

Living in Palm Bay we received the northern eye-wall of hurricane Frances when it went through Florida. That is the worst part of the storm. It took forever to leave. At one point it had dropped to 1mph. Wind, wind and more wind with no end in site! But it is finally gone!

Now the power is out in my house and has been since Friday night. As Americans we are blessed. We don't realize how much we have till we lose some of it, even still we are blessed with such a fast response of aid and resources necessary to bring life back to normal. God is merciful and has given us so much.