Posted on 09/12/2008 11:29:13 PM PDT by NautiNurse
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Electricity outages have been widespread, and phone service spotty in the greater Houston area—with a lot of restoration progress made over recent days. If you have more specific details about your friend’s location (e.g. township), there are resources available to find more information.
There are a number of faith based organizations respected for their operations. Salvation Army is excellent. Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Houston/Galveston is a well established organization.
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Three of the 15 Katrina threads had over 6000 posts.
There is also a possibility somebody is going to end up being a meal for a hungry tiger.
It is ridiculous that the state and FEMA go through the foolish dance you describe when they have had so much time to coordinate and put supplies in place.
The other big dance is thousands of dramatic airlift and boat rescues--for the survivors. I suppose it would be a great story to tell your grandchildren if you survive the storm...at great risk to first responders and great cost to the rest of us.
Twelve miles from the bay plus refineries sounds like Texas City/La Porte/Pasadena/Baytown, ie SE/E Houston, all of which are still likely without power. Try zip 77501 for your search.
So good to hear from you.
Thank you for sharing. Hope things are getting a little better at least. Is the water level dropping any?
I am still in San Antonio, I am waiting for the morning report on outages and repairs. According to last nights report my zip code INCREASED outages by 2000.
I am probably heading out by 11. I need to get home, even if we have no power. The dog and I need to get back into a routine of some sort.
My office building is closed until Monday so that will give me a chance to clean up and see what FEMA and Insurance say.
I am glad that Spencer and Redbluff is just down the road, bring us back a report, would you?
sure. let me know if there’s anything i can do for ya while i am there...
Over and over I read here about the 20,000 people that stayed on the island. It’s just a thought but who could possibly have any idea how many stayed? There have been very few deaths reported in Harris County which has a population of over 5,000,000. I think it was 10 yesterday. Harris County starts about 20 miles north of Galveston. While I realize that Galveston County and Chambers County will be a lot worse, I think judging from the very few in Harris County, it wont be 10,000 on the coast. The causeway that leads to the mainland from Galveston is high and boats go under it so Im sure there was time early Friday for many to get out our friends did. The early incoming tide would have sent me swimming to the mainland if necessary.
If it were me down there and Id stayed and been buried at sea, I would not want anyone feeling sorry for me. We make our own decisions in life. Some are good and some are bad. Some cost us everything. But I would never want anyone waste a minute fretting over my demise. Life is a beautiful gift and I cherish it but it doesnt last forever.
Which brings me to posters like Katlyn. There is someone you could spend some time praying for. She has water in the house which is a horrible ordeal to suffer through. It is the living that needs your positive thoughts, your encouragement, your prayers. Dwelling on those that are gone seems kind of fruitless to me. Dwelling on the questionable number of dead will not change that number. What is gone, is gone.
While those human lives that are gone cannot be returned, I would guess that the area will be back in business in 2 years or less. Like someone said earlier, it has been ravaged by hurricanes forever yet its still there and was inhabited up until a few days ago. How many said NOLA would not be back? I was there the weekend of Katrina and I returned 16 months later. That was a long spell for me not to go but I could not bear to see it limping so I was patient and waited.
So Id just hope that no one dwells on the worst things about Ike and spends that time praying for those that are facing a long hard road ahead. All in all, I think the area was very very fortunate. Anyone that lives around the gulf coast knows the possibilities. So please, dont fret about things we have no control over and lets spend some time on prayers for Katlyn and others in the same boat as her.
Not sure MRE’s are gonna ‘do it’ for those two....LOL!!
Yikes!!
Take care
The cooler weather has been amazing and just in time. I remember right after Alicia, it was so hot and the wind wouldn’t stir an ounce. It was so miserable. We were lucky and had power all through Alicia until it was over then we lost power..... and any breeze. I can’t believe I attended 12 years of school in southern Louisiana with no a/c. How did I do that? LOL
Ask them if they have a mobile unit on the WNW side of town. Just having them south doesn’t help those of us in the northwest. Thanks!
RS
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beachadam
To see what is really going on, pictures from a local Surfside firefighter. Not just the most ravaged areas, but the entire area which seems more appropriate to me. To show the worst pictures over and over is nonsense. To play on the negatives 24/7 is just a media trick to make everyone stay stuck on death and destruction. It increases the journalists’ job security.
School didn’t start until after labor day and ended in May. We also had a wall of windows that the teacher would open out. I don’t remember it ever being hot in class. The buildings were designed for better ventilation IMO.
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