We're Back!!!

We finally(!!!!) got our power back on at 10:00 am this morning!! Thanks to all the linemen from all over the country-we had one crew from California working on our lines! We were very lucky here-only a few trees down and nothing was damaged. It did blow the roofs off the hog pens-but that's minor. On the other hand-if anyone has watched the news coverage-the little town of Gilchrist was totally devastated. Our cabin (and all but 8 of 250+) are all gone. We have not been allowed to reenter as of yet-but our neighbor-Cliff-from the house across the street-got in yesterday and said we do have pilings left and I'm waiting to get some pictures from him that I'll post asap. Our power went out around 3:20 am on Saturday Sept. 12th. The eye passed over us around 7:30am, then the back side of Ike-which was much stronger than the front. So we have been without power for 9 days-gas was almost impossible to find the first few days. We ran the generator only at night to keep the freezer and frig cold. We also went a few days with no eggs-then Jeff found the culprit while gathering eggs-a 4 1/2 foot chicken snake-but he was really skinny. Well-it's great to be back-now I just have to get my house cleaned up and try to get everything back to normal-whatever that that is! :)