Cornick.net: Back home!

After 3 1/2 days of mooching a wonderfully air conditioned room, food and being pests in general at my in law's house, we are now home :) The kids miss Mike and Angee's already - in fact Ben was asking tonight when he gets to see them again, lol. When I told him it was time to go the response was 'no! I don't want to leave Auggie!!'. Auggie the doggy. Ben and Audra spent a good day and a half running away from him, hiding in their room and complaining about being licked (must be horrible to be so loved!). Yesterday, finally, the two of them and Auggie, calmed down and were just enjoying each other. So I found Ben's response to going home today to be such a funny one.

It was interesting to see all the sights coming home - shredded billboards, store signs, downed power lines being supported by upright power lines... and the smoke! Yes. That's right, LOTS of smoke. Folks on acreages and farms have taken to burning their debris. It was kind of neat to drive down the road with huge flaming piles of brush and tree trunks burning, flames shooting 20, maybe 30 feet in the air. What were once flooded areas are now dry, save for the small ditches. Our bayou that was completely flooded out on Sunday morning is now a small creek. Most people have their debris piled up at the ends of their driveways so it was somewhat shocking to realize how much damage people's yards really did take. It's like one gigantic weed whacker came through The Woodlands and thinned things out.

Most everything is open, it's business as usual. Now our cleanup begins.