Hurricane Ike Update #3

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We’re still alive! Sorry it’s been so long since the last update, we still don’t have any power or any water. Thank goodness it’s raining, we’ve had a bucket under a drip in the gutters collecting water for toilet flushing. We still have a lot of bottled water, and it’s safe to say the gallon per day per person thing is a pile of stinking, steaming BS. Kari points out it’s better to have too much water than too little.

Lance is REALLY scratched up from flying debris. Turns out roof shingles flying at 100 mph can do some serious damage. Even the back window has a huge scratch in it! yIKEs! We’ll be calling Geico on Monday to see wat tey can do before poor Lancie-poo starts rusting.
We’re going to drive around later to charge the gadgets (yay power inverter!) and cool off (yay AC) and take some pictures of flooding. We’ll have to be back by 9pm though because there’s been a city-wide curfew ordered from tonight through the 19th. Of course I view this as an unnecessary increase in power by what is essentially a police state right now, but I’m not about to go out and protest. This is Texas, I don’t want to get shot.

We’ve seen trucks driving around to restore power, and all around us lights are on, but not here. The city is rightly focusing on hospitals, nursing homes and Hotels. I scratch my head as we drive past lit-up car dealerships and strip malls, then sleep without covers in an 80 degree bedroom. :S

I’m working on uploading some photos to Flickr, it takes a while on this slow internet connections.

The cell phones still don’t quite work. Calls get dropped before connecting, ad even SMS and Voicemail notifications come in bursts a few times a day.

Flooding is still pretty bad (pics later?) all around town. There’s been a bit of rain today even with the storm gone, and it’s exacerbating the flooding problem.

That’s all for now, I’ve gotta get the Flickr upload to go through. More updates to follow!

UPDATE: Kari turned the sink faucet just before we left and our water is back! Yay!