Storm Pictures

Finally, I have Hurricane Ike pictures. I'm still working on my slow, old computer so I'm hesitant to upload (since it takes forever), but I'm currently looking for excuses to stall my evening grading. 60 Jane Eyre essays left.

This is my apartment before. Notice the chimney on the left. Notice that it's attached to the roof.



During the storm, as I laid on my couch, I heard a crash! Thinking it was a tree that went through my neighbor's apartment, I snuck a quick peek outside. Nothing to the left. Nothing to the right. Then I looked down. Damn. That's my chimney.

After the storm, I surveyed the damage. Yep, that's my chimney, floating in flood water. And there is now a hole in my roof. And water spots. And mold (killed later by bleach).

I can be, however, quite optimistic. I knew that I wanted a souvenir from this storm (the storm in which I was of the small percentage that stayed despite a mandatory evacuation order), and what better souvenir than a piece of my chimney? I originally wanted the metal tubes, but was talked into keeping the better pieces of pine. So the Neighbor and I loaded the wood up and took it to his shop, where we made...

this table. I learned how to use power tools and make a patio table! The table still isn't finished - I'm currently punching tiny holes in the table top because it's going to be a large cribbage board. But I've got a nice-sized patio table and it's going to go with me forever as a souvenir of Hurricane Ike 2008.

Cheers!