There are 5 POD locations within 10 minutes from my house. Why??? Several restaurants, grocery stores, fast food places are open!!! We got milk from target yesterday!
Hubby just made a good point. He said just give it a week or 2 and see if you don’t find some of those MRE’s and supplies for sale at the local “flea markets”...
Authorities have reported a total of 53 deaths in 11 states as Ike moved from Texas northeastward across the U.S.:
Texas - nineteen, including at least five in Harris County from carbon monoxide poisoning and a utility worker crushed by a tree while clearing downed lines north of Houston.
Louisiana - six, including two contractors who were electrocuted.
Tennessee - two, both golfers killed by a falling tree.
Arkansas - one, a man killed by a tree falling on a mobile home.
Ohio - six, including five by falling trees and one person electrocuted while working on a generator.
Indiana - seven, including a father and son killed helping children escape from a ditch.
Illinois - two, including an elderly man found in a flooded backyard.
Missouri - four, including a woman struck by a tree limb and an elderly man suspected of drowning in a flooded yard.
Kentucky - two, a 10-year-old boy struck by a tree limb while mowing a lawn and a woman exposed to carbon monoxide fumes from a generator at her home.
Pennsylvania - two, a 46-year-old man struck by tree limb while helping remove a large tree from a house, and a 43-year-old utility worker who was electrocuted when he stepped on a live wire while working to repair power lines.
Michigan - two, a 1-year-old boy apparently drowned in a stormwater-filled ditch near Auburn, Mich., and a 15-year-old killed when his all-terrain vehicle crashed into a hidden ravine created by storm water.
Mayor: ‘Galveston is not in ruins’
01:13 PM CDT on Thursday, September 18, 2008
http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou080918_mh_galveston_update.8b4e4cbf.html
3 more deaths reported from Ike
Galveston County Medical Examiner Stephen Pustilnik said Thursday that three more deaths were attributed to Hurricane Ike, bringing the state total to 22. Nationwide, 56 people have died.
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http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_10499180