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Houston and environs
2008-09-16; 09:44:42 EDT
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2002-09-17
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I received this email from a friend in the Houston area. Rummy Friends, Pictures can not describe the devastation in Galveston, Houston, and the surrounding area. As I returned to home on Sunday, starting thirty miles to the west of here (i.e. over sixty miles from downtown Houston), we began to see branches down, signs bent and broken, trees uprooted, and roofs and trim on offices and homes damaged. As of this afternoon, and we are thirty miles from downtown, there are neighbors still without power. My book keeper, who I have been calling for days, told me, when she answered her door, she is still without power - I should have had a clue: she did not answer her land line or cell phone, and, her answering machine did not pick up. Fortunately, her neighbors across the street have juice. She told me she would not have answered the door had she not had the chance this morning, through a friend, to shower and clean up. (She and her husband have had no water and no electricity, in other words, no bath or shower, since Friday) Parts of Richmond and Rosenberg will remain without power for an unknown period of time into the future. Then there was a guy across from me who decided he did not want to grill outside (the electric stove was out) so he brought the grill in ….. the fire department issued him a citation … I can’t improve on that. Living without water and electricity can be interesting: no lamps, no overheads, no TV, no phone (cell or landline), no work, no internet, no means to cook, no means to wash, no cooking or drinking water, no groceries (without electricity stores can’t sell – the registers don’t work, the frozen and refrigerated stuff is dumped – legally they have to take it out of the freezers and to the dumpsters - and, once opened, the stores do not get replenished for days so the shelves get emptied). Light is interesting because there is no light after dusk, 7:30 pm, unless you have a lot of candles, which you can’t get; they fly off the shelves in the days before the storm, and the stores are closed afterward. That is just the start of the list. I don’t want to forget because I just drove eight miles west of here for a fill up, transporta tion is a problem – there are long, stacked up, lines for gasoline. If a station has electricity, and has the stuff, it has a line, if it does not, it is a graveyard. The gas, as I said, is disappearing – people are filling ten and twenty gallon cans with it, hoarding, because it takes time for trucks to bring in fuel, assuming they can get in at all, and, once the station is out, that is it. You can not move if you are out of gas. Of course, the problem with no electricity is true only if you still have a home – thousands have no homes – the storm turned their houses, couches, beds, dining rooms, closets and vanities, into rubble – broken and strewn for miles – I found someone’s garage door remote on my sidewalk. We met people in Austin, in the hotels, who evacuated, who left the West end of Galveston, their dream homes, their retirement havens, and now own sand and a cement foundation. All we could do was cry with them … We have electricity – wow. Friends in the neighborhood do not … And, like some in Baton Rouge (left without electricity from the storm weeks ago), it may not get here for weeks. That is it from Richmond TX. g __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3443 (20080915) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. _http://www.eset.com_ (http://www.eset.com/)See the original archive post
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