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Hurricane Ike Update #5 (Big one)

Well, power came back on about 5 minutes ago. It couldn’t come on until we had gone to the store for ice, and thrown out the entire contents of our fridge and freezer. Mullen luck.

Anyways, that’s about all I have for an update tonight! I never said it’d be a long update, just a big one.

It’s Tuesday

It’s Tuesday and we still don’t have power.  We are currently visiting the campus of the University of Houston pretending to be students and making good use of free electricity, cable, and wifi in the business building.  Lach is teaching this week at our community group from Ephesians and he needed to meet up with our regular Bible study leader who teaches here at the university.  He also needed a place to get online and do some research so that he would be prepared to teach.  So, we packed up our electronics and headed to the UofH campus which seems to have endured some significant damage from hurricane Ike, and yet resumed classes today!  I’ve been intrigued overhearing student conversations as I’ve been sitting here checking my email and Facebook.  Most are saying they still don’t have power at their homes, and most think it’s weird that they have class today.  I remember being a student and always hoping that class was canceled.  It’s weird to be on the opposite side of things now.  I am desperately hoping that the schools where I have been subbing reopen SOON!  I would really like to start subbing again, but all of the schools that I sub at are closed all week.  The kiddos are probably happy, but I am not.  I want to work!  Weird!  I’ve heard that schools may reopen on Monday.

We cleaned out our freezer this morning.  We will probably finish cleaning out the refrigerator this evening.  We tried to eat as much as we could so we wouldn’t have to throw much away and I think we did an ok job.  Unfortunately its difficult to go thru near-full jars and bottles of jam, salad dressing, mustards, and other condiments.  Last night we headed to Pearland to help our friends eat a bunch of meat that they could no longer keep cold enough to save.  It was really fun to see a number of our friends from church and feast on meat!  They had hotdogs, two kinds of sausage, pulled pork, chicken, hamburgers, salmon, and then some!  They felt good about using it up rather than having to throw it out.

We don’t know when our power will be restored, but until then we are very much enjoying the cool front that is moving through Houston.  We’ve slept comfortably with the windows open over the last couple of nights.  If this cool weather moves out and we still don’t have electricity, we may have to arrange to sleep over at somebody’s house, but for now we stay home and have candle lit evenings, awesome french press coffee, camp stove meals, and our battery powered radio to keep us connected to the happenings around us.

Thanks everyone for praying for us down here and for checking our blog for updates!  You are welcome to try calling, but we are still barely receiving calls because the networks are so busy.

Hurricane Ike Update #3

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!

Hurricane Ike Update #2

We made it through the night. All our windows are intact, and there’s no flooding in out apartment. The power’s out city-wide, and our neighbors on all floors have flooding and fire alarms going off. Fortunately we don’t see any fires.

The buildings nearby have lots of windows busted, there’s insulation blowing everywhere. The storm drains were plugged (until Kari and I walked past, that is *grin*). Fences are gone, trees are down, roofs are ripped up. The awesome power of the storm was very evident.

Lance was ok on the roof overnight. There’s shingles and metal roof pieces everywhere though, so I’m sure there’s scratches we’re not seeing.

We’ll have pictures and maybe video when we get power back.