A note from Mommy:
Yesterday Louisville, Kentucky got a category 1 hurricane from Ike. Yes a hurricane in Louisville!! We had 74 mile per hour winds. It was incredible! Here is a link to one of the news stations with video - I also recommend you scroll down and look at the slide show.
Our power went out within 1 hour of the wind starting! We live next to a power substation so our power doesn't go out that often. Louisville lost power to 60% of it's residence - including us. The power was out from 1:00 pm - 8:00 pm. We were some of the lucky ones and got it back! They are predicting that some people won't get theirs back for 1 week.
We went to find some food about 7:00pm and EVERY restaurant was SWAMPED! I mean drive through lines around the building. We were at Taco Bell for 1.5 hours - no kidding! We drove 20 miles around and every restaurant that had power was like this. Cracker Barrell had people everywhere..it was amazing I have never seen anything like this! If it took 1.5 hours at fast food I am sure Cracker Barrell was 3 hours - wait, seating, and eating.
Katie did well with the power outage...although she couldn't understand why the lights wouldn't turn on. She kept pointing and saying "light, light" and hitting the switches (that she could reach). She also didn't understand why she couldn't watch a DVD.
We have large tree branches down - some leaning and some completely uprooted in our complex as well around Louisville.
Also we have lost a lot of shingles on the roof! It took the shingles and tar paper, so part of the roof is down to the ply wood. Luckily we live on the first floor, and the leak is on the other side of the building!
We got some rain last night. But compared to Texas we are lucky and the damage is minor.
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