Ike Damage 2.0

After we arrived home yesterday, we immediately set to work trying to cleanup from the storm. Our area of Clear Lake has a lot of trees and this being my first trip home I was rather astounded at the general damage to the area. Whole trees were uprooted in some cases, major branches and limbs down, and just piles and piles of limbs being created. House-wise, it appears to be minor damage, like our missing chimney and almost all fences are down, but no one appears to be completely homeless in our area at least. We have unboarded the house and started making our own large pile of limbs in the front yard too. The trees in the front are generally fine, but the pecan in the back is rather homely now.


We did open the study door to a bigger mess than John left. The wet drywall started to rain down in the room and then we got up there and pulled down everything that was damp to stop the smell. The carpet has also been pulled up from the room and I am trying very hard to air out the entire house and that room in particular. Lucky for us we are actually having unseasonably cool (low in the 50s, highs in the 70s) weather to allow me to open all the windows. The major discovery with regard to this was that the water the got into the study came from a second hole in the roof. When the chimney came down, it punched through the decking over the study and it looks like that is how the water got there. Which means the water from the chimney hole may still be above the fireplace for all we know, we just can't tell.