[Rhodes22-list] Houston and environs

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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 



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