I made it through my first hurricane!

Friday night was pretty scary, with winds close to 100 mph and sheets of rain pelting our windows like bullets. I moved into the closet a little after midnight and slept on some cushions David set up for me. Around 1am we lost power, and around 3am the worst part of the storm came through. David was up the majority of the night checking on the house and the pine trees surrounding the house. We were incredibly lucky to find no immediate damage to our house Saturday morning. Our friends, The Zorns, and their week old baby came to stay with us Friday night. Saturday morning, David and Ryan drove to check on their house, which thankfully had no damage except for several trees down in the road, driveway, and near the house. Saturday afternoon, we got our hopes up and booked a hotel room in Katy. As soon as we arrived, we were told that the booking agents should not have booked the room b/c they had no power or a/c. ahhh! PLAN C: go back home, shower in cold water and try to get through the night! On Sunday, David suggested that we call the B&B near Brenham TX (about and hour away) to see if they had rooms - thankfully they did and we came out here Sunday afternoon. It's been so pleasant - AC and cooked meals, lots of sleep last night! Right now we're in Starbucks and are just taking everyday as it comes. They are predicting weeks before we get power, but we are still very hopeful everyday. Harrison is nuzzled in, keeping warm and hopefully will not come for a few weeks - it would be miserable to bring him home to a hot and humid house.

All in all, we are safe and lucky that no one was hurt and that we had no damage. I have a few pictures and will post those when we get home to power. Thank you for your calls and text messages!

Here's a pic of David's building:http://www.click2houston.com/slideshow/17465520/detail.htmlindex.html?currentSlide=27&taf=hou This picture and the several that follow are all of downtown - it was destroyed!
He works in JP Morgan Chase Tower, which is the tallest tower downtown. Fortunately, the top windows are in tact, but the bottom windows were blown - a wind tunnel was created through downtown by the hurricane and wiped out so many buildings. David's on the 65th floor, out of 75, so I think he might be headed back to work on Wednesday or Thursday.