The Power of Negative Blogging

This will be the final post regarding Hurricane Ike. The water came back on! Let the random toilet flushing begin!

My office is still without power, but I grabbed a computer from the office and set it up here at home, so the office is mostly up and running. Forwarded the phones and viola! Back in business.

Talked to other friends this morning. His skylight was smashed by the debris from a neighbors roof, so water and leaves were all over his place. Griff’s bar across the street lost a wall due to a tree falling on it. As I drove down Westhiemer there are still no working traffic signals. People are not really obeying the 4-way stop rules, in fact, Heather and I saw a car rearend another car at a signal. Apparently the person didn’t think they actually had to stop for lights that don’t work.

Oh well. Long lines at the gas stations, our local Randall’s lost it’s entire front wall, so we’ll need to find a different supermarket to shop at for awhile. Not that the stores have much food in them.

But the cool thing is seeing neighbors helping each other out, it’s not the wild me-first scenario you might expect in this situation. Good work, Houston!