Member Barb Wirth From Houston: "We Survived!"

Thank you so much for your concern about our safety during Hurricane Ike. Although this event blanketed the upper Texas Gulf coast with stories of loss and tragedy, it is also an event that had several little miracles. 

Our home, which was in the mandatory evacuation zone, was supposed to have been obliterated by the forecasted 22 – 27’ storm surge. Miraculously, the storm surge did not exceed 15’ which spared at least 50,000 homes from the same fate suffered by our neighbors in Galveston and Boliver Peninsula.