Saturday, September 13, 2008

Hurricane Ike

We were in Texas long enough to experience Hurricane Rita, and we knew that we never wanted to go through that again. Leigh's parents live just outside of The Woodland's, TX and everyone is without power. Leigh's dad just emailed us from his blackberry and told us that they have experienced major house damage and have lost one vehicle. The eye of the storm was about 5-10 miles away from them.

While reading channel 13 news from Houston this morning, we see that there were tens of thousands of people who did not adhere to the mandatory evacuation pronounced by city officials. These are those who will be like the refugees from Katrina.

Please pray for all of these people who have lost their homes, vehicles and loved ones during this tragic times.

1 comment:

Hayley said...

Ike was MUCH worse than Rita for our area! We had power restored today--just ten hours short of seven days without power--and there are MANY more who still don't have power. Thankfully we had no damage to our home, but many of our neighbors did. Check out my blog for more about how God has used this storm in our neighborhood. :)