Still no power!

As Lori said, we weathered the storm OK. We only lost a chunk of our fence and the "cap" on our chimney. We may have lost a front yard tree, but I think it'll pull through.
Unfortunately, we are still without electricity. It was scary and intense- we were both pretty sure we'd lose a window there for a while and we stayed away from the North side of the house for a few hours, but no real damage was done. Now we're just dealing with the inconvenience of not having power. We lost the contents of our fridge/freezer, but fortunately we don't keep much in there and probably only lost 50 bucks worth of food.
We are spending our days at my brother Kevin's house so that I can have access to internet and do my job. But I'm trying to make the best use of that time and you won't see me posting much or commenting on your blogs much until we get power back at our place (possibly another week or so). We are SO grateful that Kevin is letting us camp at his place.
We do have some pictures up at the web album. This one nicely sums up what we experienced- it was dark and wet (just imagine it's accompanied by the sounds you hear when driving through a car wash):

From Hurricane Ike

Here is the retaining pond before the storm:

From Hurricane Ike

And here it is after (the tree on the far left of the above picture is the bent tree in this shot):

From Hurricane Ike