Gratitude

I really want to thank my fabulous Canadian crew for all of very caring comments and emails these past few days. It means a lot to know that you all care so much and that you are keeping us in your thoughts and prayers. It is easy to believe that once you are out of sight you also inevitably fall of out of mind, so I am very touched by all of the kind words that I have received.

I am posting a couple more pictures that I took while we were in Vidor last week.

As you can see the Chevron station has lost it carport roof. I am very thankful that I wasn't there to see it fly off and land on the other side of the street, though it is very fortunate that it fell where it did and not in the middle of the road. This is a feeder road and and on-ramp to the I-10 so it would have prevented anyone from getting on the interstate if it had landed on the road.

In our part of Texas there are pine trees everywhere. And normally it is a very beautiful thing to have all of those tall pines looming overhead, but as you can see with a storm like this pine trees were snapped in half like matchsticks or ripped out of the earth and sent tumbling either into to the ground or into people's homes.
This is a common scene all around Vidor right now. And as much as it saddened me to see how much damage our home received seeing homes like this forced me to stop feeling sorry for myself and thank heaven that we didn't get hit this hard. It is still hard to deal with our own losses, but when you look around and see how much everyone else got hit with it really makes you thankful for what you still have.