Survived the Hurricane!

Well Dolly delivered a stronger punch then anyone expected I think. We did fine though and were very prepared. We got tons of rain and the city flooded pretty bad in some parts. In fact, there are still people with water in their houses and some who don't have power yet. I guess we were pretty lucky and only went a day and a half without electricity.
After it was all said and done we had a lot of cleaning up to do in the yard and lost quite a few big branches. The water came close to the house and we were a little nervous but as soon as the rain let up it started draining real quick.
Brenna did great and never got scared. She did better then Brendon and I did actually. LOL The winds were vicious and blowing about 85mph I think for a couple hours. I took quite a few pictures to kinda document everything. The link is at the bottom. I wanted to take pictures when we went driving around town but I forgot my camera. It was so weird seeing hand written 'CLOSED' signs on all the convenience stores and all the damage everywhere. When the power slowly started coming back on people were lined up into the street for gas as well as fast food. The drive thru line at one of the Whataburger's was all the way into the street and down about a block.

For us life has pretty much returned to normal but for a lot of people it will take a while. The local paper today had lots of stories and pictures of people still dealing with the aftermath and it's very sad. I really would like to do something to help but so far no information has been given as to what others could do right now.
We did have one of Brendon's co-workers, his wife and two kids stay with us last night because they still did not have power. We gave them Brenna's room and said that they could stay as long as they needed but thankfully for them their power was restored today.

Well here's the link to the pictures I took.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v23/raving_butterfly/Hurricane%20Dolly/