Monthly Archives: September 2008

Home: has power, water, phone, internet, the whole deal. There’s even a bar or two on my cell phone. Work: has power, water, phone, internet, everything except our web server. Things are getting back to normal. Traffic lights turn red, … Continue reading →

As if the people on the Bolivar Peninsula didn’t have enough to worry about, a lion and a tiger got loose during the storm. News reports this morning say that they have been “corralled,” which doesn’t quite sound like “caught” … Continue reading →

Now all we need is phone services.

Here are the pictures I took a few hours after the storm passed through. It was still drizzling at the time, hence the occasional spots on the photos. This one is around the corner and up a cul-de-sac from us. … Continue reading →

In the days after Ike wolloped up, I felt a real urge to regain as much normalcy as possible. At around noon on Saturday, even though it was still raining, I put on a poncho and did a loop around … Continue reading →

We lost phone service 24 hours after the storm, so have been completely cut off since then. No power, spotty (at best) cell phone. Thanks to having natural gas, we had hot water, which was wonderful. Our neighbor let us … Continue reading →

No power — we’re borrowing a line from a neighbor with a generator to run our fridge and the internet for a few hours at a time. The storm came through at 2 a.m. and we lost power at 6:15. … Continue reading →

Every time a reporter or an interviewee says “Hunker down,” we have a drink of Shiner Bock. At the rate this phrase is coming up, we should be trashed by 9 p.m. Hurricane? What hurricane? The rains haven’t started in … Continue reading →

So far, so good. I hear the odd pine cone falling on our roof, which means there are probably a few gusts of wind, but the storm is still a long way off. There were two fires in Galveston, one … Continue reading →

Ike is only a category 2 hurricane, but it is so vast that it is generating an awesome surge of water ahead of it. The tides, not tidal surge, are already extremely high on the coast, with water rushing over … Continue reading →