Hurricane Ike

This is the first time I've ever been in an actual hurricane. After all, we live 200 miles from the coast! Rita was a tropical storm before she got here three years ago, but they say Ike will still be a Cat 1 Hurricane when it moves over us in a couple of hours. I'll believe it when I see it. I'll post updated pictures. Right now (9:00am) it's just rainy and windy. Now, (2:30pm) the eye is directly over us and it's pretty dull. The winds were pretty spectacular for a while and our power went out for a couple of hours, but it seems to be all over now. We've seen on TV that some trees are down in Palestine, but all of our trees are still standing. The radar shows just "green" rain for the next several hours, so it I think the storm has passed. I was wondering about the birds during the height of the storm and they kept coming to the feeder! The pictures are not very exciting - it's hard to capture high winds and rain.