My first adventure outside the development

I have not left home all week. I have been home, watching the kids, while my wife was able to return to work. Her company has power...mine does not. Owel. Time for me to go to Home Depot and Super Target.

I was amazed at what I saw along the way.

Leaving our development. You used to not be able to see those houses, for the most part.

Police directing traffic through a nearby intersection because the light is out.

There's your gas price. And the cars in front of it? You guessed it, waiting in line to get the gas...

A tractor-trailer that didn't make it through the storm. It was likely parked and blown over by the storm.

Notice the edge of the roof? This house is BRAND NEW. No one lives in it yet. How did that much tile get damaged?

A sign is bent over.

This is the Huntington development's sign. Except you can't see it now, for the most-part.

A near-by bank as most of it's sign missing.

FEMA? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

This guy must be REALLY DESPERATE to sell his can such that he spray painted it. Couldn't he atleast have included his phone number?

Another line of cars going into a different gas station.

The flag made it! More than likely because the firefighters who take care of it took it down before the storm, and put it back up afterwards.

Yet Another Intersection Down. No police here, however.

A bent over concrete light pole. CONCRETE!

A bunch of maleleuca (?spelling) trees, stripped of leaves. It's amazing to see, really, as normally their brush is very dense.

Coming home...lots of downed trees...

The entrance to my development. Wow...you never saw so much open sky before....

Driving into the development...wow...