House Damage Report

We heard this morning from a neighbor that stayed in the area that our house is largely intact. I say largely, because we no longer have a chimney and instead have a hole in the roof. The hurricane did pass directly over our house as we watched the radar we could easily tell that Clear Lake City passed through the western portion of the eye. This means we saw peak winds during the eye-wall, but were spared (most thankfully) the storm surge from the hurricane which we wanted least of all. The flooding that has occured east of us in the Beaumont/Orange areas is the result of the surge.

We are sure we have some amount of rainfall that has entered our attic and potentially the living room. Unfortunately, since we secured our house so thouroughly, it is impossible for our nieghbors to get in without actually breaking into the house to find our for us. We will figure out what we are going to do over the next few days. We are fully covered and well insured so we are confident we can have this taken care of as painlessly as possible. We also know our fences and our neighbors are all down as well, but that is easily remedied.

Will continue to post status as we know it, of course. We are, along with the rest of Houston, without power, so our return is uncertain since we wouldn't be able to do much if we did.