Recovering From Rita - Part 1

Thought you folks might find some of these pictures of the devastation wRought around our residence by Rita revealing regarding the severity of the storm in southwest Houston. Suffice it to say, we were extremely lucky and blessed in our area. The damage shown in the photos below is somewhat representative (as near as I can tell from driving around the past couple of days) of the experiences of our neighbors.


DETACHED TREE LIMB.

Rita ripped this branch right off of this tree.
Nature can be so cruel.



MISCELLANEOUS DEBRIS.

I don't have a clue what this is. But darned if that Rita didn't leave this pile of it in our yard. Unseemly.

ALARM SERVICE SIGN.

This sign was standing almost straight up when we left Friday morning. Before the wRath of Rita came a'calling.


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Here now are "after" photographs of our house and the lake behind our house as viewed through our palm trees (please feel free to compare these to the "before" pictures filed in one of the "Running From Rita" posts). These photographs were taken this morning. Because the sun was still fairly low in the sky when I was out surveying the landscape, I had to change the angle of the shot of our roof a little.



LAKE THROUGH PALM TREES.



ROOF.

I have not been able to find visible damage to our house. This means probably no federal disaster relief cheque windfall (pun intended) will be coming my way.