Bridge City Post Ike.... three months later

This past weekend we went to Bridge City to celebrate Christmas early. This small town is where my mom, cousins, and my husband grew up! The poor town was devastated on September 13Th by Ike's storm surge. Dax family was really hit pretty hard. His mom and grandma have been living on concrete and had all the sheet rock replaced in their homes. His dad & aunt just got a FEMA trailers and both of their homes need a tons of work. The town is full of FEMA trailers. The grocery store where Dax worked when we met is operating out of trailers. It is just so sad. I am amazed at how strong everyone is in the the face of such adversity.

Well, here are some pictures we took of the ongoing clean-up!

Stanley's FEMA trailer in his driveway.

View from the from yard of Stanley's home

Walking to the store!

Pawpaw's living room

This one Dax taking the picture in Robin's old room and behind us is Dax's old room! The boys had so much fun crawling through all the "walls"!



Mary making the most of her carpet-less floors had painted her walls.... and then had dress the floor a bit by adding a splattering of paint which actually looked awesome! But after her grand babies arrived she let them take to it with permanent markers.

We each took turns drawing and signing our names.

Jax made this HUGE heart... he said it took him hours! I have never seen that kids stay in one place for hours. I guess when you are 6 and write that many names.... it must seem like hours!

The girls made several with each others names. They love their cousin!

A good view of the whole floor. You can also see how Mary has been living with everything out of sorts. (Ok..... so our bags add to the drama of having nothing where it belongs!)

Just if you were wondering I still love him ;-)