A Terrible Storm

We knew Hurricane Ike would likely hit us, but we stayed anyway. We'd left for Hurricane Rita only to sit in the car (not moving) all day long...what had normally taken 30 minutes to drive ended up taking over 6 hours. NOT a fun day.
So, we decided to stay in town. Me, 8 & 1/2 months pregnant, Wynne and an almost 2 year old. We settled in for the storm and put Eliot to bed in her crib, where she stayed asleep even amidst all the swaying our house was doing and the noise of the storm. When we decided to go down to the 1st floor just in case we needed to climb into our safest closet, she woke up. We all tried to sleep, but no one did. It was the worst storm I've ever seen/heard/felt. We will not stay for a hurricane again. We were very lucky to sustain no real damage. We have pics of the small damage we did receive from Ike. Most of the fence is on our neighbor's property and we only have a small portion to repair. Unfortunately for us, most everyone around here and for many miles surrounding us will need fence (and other) repair, so we're not likely to get the fence repaired really soon.
I think it is so strange that we only got a few pictures of the damage, considering how I take so many pictures. But we did hightail it out of town pretty fast the day after the storm when we heard that the power might not be back on for 2 weeks!