Lori Board:  

The past many years have taken me on a number of wild rides. God has been there from the beginning, seeing me through, and is still by my side. In the past 20 years I met and married the husband of my two youngest children, who are now 16 and 18. My oldest two daughters are still living in California (my oldest has traveled the world living the military life with her husband of 13 years, and they have given us three grandchildren!). My second daughter (step) is in Los Angeles, where she can be near her natural mother. My adventure with my husband and his many job moves has taken me out of Fontana to Sacramento for a year, then to Houston, Texas for three years, back to Grand Terrace, CA for a year, to Springfield, Ohio for four years, Terre Haute, Indiana for a year, and back to Houston, where we have been (in our original home the first time we were here) since! Yes, we were here during Hurricane Ike. It was the most violent storm I have ever experienced, and was more impressive than any of the earthquakes I experienced in Southern California, including Northridge and the Twin Quakes (Big Bear and High Desert) in the June of 1992. Ike knocked out our power and internet for two weeks. We survived on the stores of food we had put aside when we knew it was coming, but we got lucky; we still had clean running water and unbroken gas lines. I became a master chef on the barbecue,...Expand for more