My buddy Ike.....

I'm sure at this point, all of us remember that wonderful little Hurricane named Ike that hit Texas last weekend. Well, luckily the remnants of him came through up and through Louisville on Sunday, which was.....well, interesting. I went for a run that morning and noticed that it was a bit more windy than normal.....and then it picked up more.

It was kind of crazy at one point: I saw clouds moving both East and North at the same time. I know, some of you will say, "Yeah, that's called Northeast." But it wasn't!! Some clouds were actually heading straight East, while others were headed due North. It was odd, to say the least.

As the wind picked up throughout the day and the dark clouds came, lots and lots of trees were came crashing down. Power-lines quickly followed and the next thing we knew, 300,000 people were without power. I can remember going out to see if anything was open and three of the major streets around me were all cut off at some point either due to a fallen tree (over a four-lane road!!) or due to power-lines down. A house near me had it's patio crushed by a huge tree in their front yard and sadly, just two houses down, another house had a giant tree simply resting on the roof. Ironic.

Well, it's now four days later and I am still without power. I am still without power and we haven't had school all week! We'll see if that changes tomorrow. Even though we don't have power, we still have a literacy conference today at 1 pm....in the dark. Awesome.

I hope you're enjoying the electricity wherever you are.....

God Bless