Hurrican Ike…
About a few days before news on the projected path of Hurricane Ike took hold, people in our town had a thing called “Panic” buying. Our local store ran out of water jugs and can goods were a bit scarce. I went over to an isle were they used to have plenty of loaves of bread stacked, instead, I found several rows of empty shelves. I became so aware and even worried that we may have to evacuate, although there were no “Mandotory” alerts given. I’m not a meteorologist but, somehow I tuned in and got hooked on watching the hurricane coverage flipping through different channels, I acted like one…lol
My dearest husband had to reassure me that we need not getting ourselves all shook up and just wait until they have a final say on where it would actually approach inland. He on the other hand had a moment were he thought about leaving and go west away from the path or go over to a facility with back-up generators. I’ve decided to either go over to my mom’s house or choose his second option.
We both started looking over phone books and surfed through the internet on hotel availabilities and I doubt there were any—sure enough, all was booked! It was ridiculous! I found out after all that mess, I had to hear another one, Alex had a call from his PT job asking him to work!
He accepted the offer. He tried to explain to me that this storm is still way off and hadn’t made landfall yet. I wasn’t really paying attention to him, and all I could do is act so furious and confused to a point were I had to ask him does he even care? With this, I took the kids along with me to my mother’s house. It was about almost eleven o’clock at night when I got a call from him and asked what I wanted to do, I had settled down,(I gave myself a good big slap in da face
) I had forgotten what I was upset about and I told him to pick us up. Cindy doesn’t want to be away from her “Cutty buddy” lol
Fact of the matter is, I had talked to my mom about being cautious because, her house is surrounded with trees-some are quite big with old-worn out branches.
While back in the our house, I suddenly realized that many such as myself had lost a simple faith. We’ve completely lost faith in God. I got so caught-up with what the rest of the town folks are saying and not trusting in Him. I had to turn the TV off and started praying, I literally had tears on my eyes, even Alex had to ask what’s wrong with me. He turned the TV back on and sounded really surprising to me. He said, we may not get any of that Tropical Storm. When I heard him, I got up and looked at the screen, I had a smile on my face, I thanked the Lord!
It was amazing and miraculous because, the outer bands or the rotation was just 20 miles away from us, we did get a bit of gust of wind and that’s about it! I had to say “Praise be to God”………..this is just one of the greatest feeling of Love that I know and received that came from my Father above. I Love You Lord!
This Saturday morning, we had a little sprinkle and I looked outside, kids were playing already. I did felt sympathy and prayed for those in the Galveston area and those areas were the “Eye Wall” hit. I have to say, if I lived in those places and the Governor ordered for Mandatory evacuations, its common sense, you just have to leave. You don’t have to be stubborn, even when your own thinking might contradict your faith, your purpose is to save yourself or your family and do what’s right. God wants us to take care of ourselves too
