When we woke up early Saturday morning we still had tropical force winds. However, we could now see outside. There were trees down and debris everywhere. Even though the rain was still coming down (at least not sideways now) we couldn’t resist opening the door and going outside. A quick survey of our property revealed very little damage. Our backyard neighbors had a tree down, apparently twisted off about 10 feet up. On the street side of the house a large pine tree was completely down, blocking the street and narrowly missing a car in a driveway. Limbs were down, garage doors blown in, and a tree leaned against a neighbor’s house. We checked in with everyone we could find and found there were no injuries. By the way, that remains true – no injuries in our whole area. When the winds were down low enough I started taking down plywood so we could open up the house. Here on the gulf coast we know all about humidity but what we had was off the scale. The wind helped but the feeling was oppressive. We made some coffee, sat up some lawn chairs and tried to take it all in.