Sandy, my prayers are with you. Stay safe!!

My prayers for Sandy and Marilyn, and everyone affected. The news about this storm is scary. Please be safe.

Had the news on this morning....not good. Please I know there are more important things going on right now than 4WT, but if it's possible please let us know you're alright. Have all those affected in my prayers.

Just checking in. We are doing fine. The storm missed our home in Victoria and is hooking north so fast that it will miss Austin, also. All we are getting is a 25 mph breeze, and no rain. Wish it had gone south though and gone inland where there are very few people. The areas that are affected in Texas and Louisiana are a mess from what we are hearing.

We are in Austin with Melissa and Garrett and will be heading home this afternoon.

Hope Sandy and her family are well. The are probably out of power for a while.

Janet, looks like it will be in Indiana tomorrow. You will probably get a lot more of this one than we did!!

Take care everyone along the path of Ike, praying for all affected!!

I'm so glad you're okay and that the storm missed your home. If you see this, or anyone else from the area, I was just wondering about a couple of areas myself. I have a good friend who lives in Lake Jackson with her husband and baby, and last I heard they had evacuated to Plano. Are they out of harm's way? I'm worried about her :(

Marilyn, glad it missed you.

Glad everything is OK Marilyn!

Yes, they will be fine in Plano - it's good they left Lake Jackson though!!!

Glad it missed Victoria, Marilyn! My hubby has an elevated fishing house just south of Bay City on the coast. We are hoping it is OK - it should be since it was on the clean side of the storm.

Now that we know you ladies are safe....now we need to hear from Sandy. I hope someway, somehow she can let us know she is okay.

Thank you so much! One of her friends wrote on her facebook wall saying she heard the storm was heading towards Plano so that's what worried me! But I'm glad to hear they'll be okay.

Plano may have gotten some rain but that's about it. Lake Jackson was hit pretty hard. They are not letting them back into Brazoria County yet, so it may be a couple of days before they get to go home. My boss lives in Lake Jackson and I think he was on a business trip to Michigan. Hope all is will with his family. I'm sure they got out and are okay.

Would like to hear from Sandy, but she's probably out of power for a while.

Gayle, from what we are hearing, Bay City area should be okay, especially if the house is on stilts. They got some surge, and rain, but not much of the wind. They are saying the homes on concrete stilts faired the best in areas like Bay City but it's far enough away, that wooden ones probably were okay.

Let us know for sure though.

Will do. We have friends who live in Sweeny who will go over there when they can get through. We talked to them yesterday and like you, seemed to think everything would be OK. The road to the house floods with a heavy rain, so it may be a few days before he can get in there.

My Brother, his wife's parents and grandparents are in Clear Lake. They road out the storm in my brothers house.

My Mom and two sisters are in Conroe/Montgomery.

Everyone is with out power. All have damage at there houses. I have not talked with my brother since last night. FEMA took over the cell towers.

One of my sisters works for St Lukes and is on her way into work right now. My other sister works at the hospital and stayed there through the storm.

It is amazing how unprepared they were. Maybe we are just used to having power go down here in tornado alley, but, when I told them they are saying 2-4 weeks to restore power, they are like no, it should be on within a day.

BTW if you have direct tv channel 361 is local Houston channel 11. I have been able to tell my family information like :my sister was needed at work, locations where FEMA was giving ice etc,

I feel for those all affect by this terrible storm. Here I am in Indiana and today we are getting the rain and wind from it. Rain coming down in sheets and you can actually see it move across the fields. We have a wind warning out for this afternoon and this evening. It sucks here right now....I can't imagine what you all went through...horrible!!!