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I've heard of Garden Oaks, I jsut can't place where it is. I come from Westchase. I'm very happy to hear that your neighborhhod sounds like it's OK - just needs a cleaning up and that you have power.

Do you (or anyone) know what the current number is now of homes without electricity? I heard 1.3 million this morning.

My neighborhood, Garden Oaks, looks like a war zone.

And ironically, my neighborhood is looking less and less like one lately. ;-)

2,295 posted on 09/14/2008 1:07:13 PM PDT by Allegra (Prayers up for all in Ike's path. Please be safe...my hometown.)

Garden Oaks is north of of 610 at around the Shepherd exit. Just east of the NW Mall on 290. Very very old trees there. My husband used to own a home there and had a tree through the house during Alicia.

2,312 posted on 09/14/2008 1:17:53 PM PDT by texasredtop

I’ve been struggling to find figures for homes without power. About 7 minutes before you asked, in post#2285, I excerpted a Center Point Energy press release. There is more info in the linked article there.

Right now, they have 81% of their 2.26 Million customers without electricity - 1.84 Million are still dark. I understand from discussions yesterday that they supply electricity to about 1/3 of the customers in that area (though I’ve not been able to find a good source for that yet) which would support the figure of 5 million without electric in the area that I posted earlier this morning.

All the companies have assessment crews right now flying around - they couldn’t do so yesterday due to high winds and the SAR efforts. Hopefully, they will be able to get a good idea by nightfall. Probably, tomorrow’s releases will be a lot better.

Yesterday, I saw that they were guessing that 30% of their infrastructure was wiped out. We’re not talking here about simply downed lines to houses, but major transmission lines and switching facilities. If that is any where near close to true, it will take a LONG time to get power back on for an extraordinary number of people and businesses -— and I won’t be surprised to hear figures in excess of 4 weeks, though I’m expecting them to say 2-4 weeks.

Electric service damage is something I’ve been looking for, and I’ll keep posting what I can find.

2,321 posted on 09/14/2008 1:29:59 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))

I haven’t heard. We’re still out in Garden Oak but driving over I noticed lights on around the Galleria and down SWF to Bellaire.

2,325 posted on 09/14/2008 1:32:56 PM PDT by hobson (610 and Shepherd - Houston)

2,384 posted on 09/14/2008 2:34:03 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)

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