IKE!

Well pregnancy does have its perks! I slept like a rock during the worst part of the storm. While everyone else was wide awake and trying to hold down the fort, I slept like a baby. Rob actually had to shake me a few times to wake me up and check on me...He also kept me updated on what was going on. Trees were falling over, the door to the barn was barely hanging' on, and the power was off. The house was also making some noises as the wind whipped around it, and though I heard a few of the loud bangs and metal scraping against metal sounds, I slept. And then I slept some more. I don't think I went downstairs until 9am to find everyone else watching the rain.

The rest of the day was spent watching the several bands of hard rain come and go and taking naps. Brian and Rob got the generator going late in the afternoon after we all felt that the worst of it was long gone so that we could tune into the news. The damage of Ike is devastating. It will take weeks to get things semi-normal again. 2.1 million people are without power. Most of the coast are without homes...