When the going gets tough the tough get going

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
After cleaning up the mess we bailed for parts unknown. All my jeans and sweats were covered in wet mud from the cleanup and electricity was no where in sight. We drove about halfway to 290 before we found an open gas station with gas and a line only about a dozen cars long. People were filling up cans and cans of gasoline for generators. The place stank of gas and I hated being there. It felt like an explosion waiting to happen. We drove for another hour before finding coffee and dug out a map and settled on San Antonio. There are very few hotel rooms open here. There are tons of refugees from the Houston area here. About halfway here we had… Read More

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Cleanup

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Cleanup continues, what a mess. Together with the two neighbors right of me we have everything cut and bagged across the yards except the pine tree stump. That'll get done tomorrow I hope. I scored a gas chainsaw at Lowes this morning. There were three guys looking at it reading the label. I walked up and asked if that was a gas chainsaw. Someone said yes so I grabbed it and ran like hell. Don't know what we would've done with out it. I'm still trying to figure out why all my neighbors in the city seemed to already own them? While everyone one was out sawing, raking, sweeping one woman sat outside and watched. She didn't even bother to rake her… Read More

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After the storm

Sunday, September 14th, 2008
ATT phone data service has been flaky, the Sprint card even let me down this afternoon. I have both back but at dial up speed. No electricity yet. I'm trying to check the electric info online but some bozo designed a high graphic, high javascript page. So it is taking a very long time to load. Entergy isn't the swiftest. After the last storm three years ago, that missed, we had rolling blackouts for 12 hours a day for two weeks after the storm. There's a serious thunderstorm out there now. Lots of loud thunder and it is really pouring. It's a good thing we went out into the yard today and cleared debri that was blocking water drainage. We picked… Read More

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The worst is over

Saturday, September 13th, 2008
The gardens are beyond trashed. I have one very large and several small and medium trees down all over the yard. But the house and garage are still intact so we're fine and all is well. The wind is still remarkably strong and the rain has been coming down in sheets for hours. We have several more hours of rain and wind yet to come. Some neighbors stopped by and asked if they could swing our tree out of the road. Told them sure, I can't see as it would do any more harm. Since then at least a dozen cars have driven out of our tiny neighborhood. I can't imagine where they are going. There can't be more than 100 homes in here. Another neighbor called… Read More

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