[Rhodes22-list] Houston and environs

[Bill Effros]

Thanks, Rummy,

So easy to forget other people's problems.

BE



R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:
> I received this email from a friend in the Houston area.
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> 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. 
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