I'm at my wife's work - Lone Star College-Montgomery. She is a part-time police officer for that campus and is working the 11pm to 7am shift. So I came with her so I could use the computer and have some lights and a shower at the gym.
We lost power at home after my post on Sept. 12. Still no power and there is very little water pressure at home, but the water is good. Glad that I stocked up on food, water and ice that am. I lost a few shingles and had the southwest corner of my roof peeled back about a foot, but no water inside house. Got it temporarily fixed and will have it repaired better later. All in all, I came out OK, no trees through the house like some neighbors. We had some very high winds coming off of Lake Conroe. For our area, the back side of the storm was the worst. No one in my neighborhood had much damage from the NE side of the storm, but after the eye passed over our neighborhood, the SW winds did the damage.
Our area got a POD Monday and I have been getting ice, water and MRE's for some of my neighbors that do not have the fuel to go there [about 6 miles from the house]. They give approximately 40 pounds of ice, 1 case of water and 1 case of MRE's to each family. Most of the people that I go for just want ice. I should be able to go 5-7 more days without having to get any supplies for myself, after that I will have to go to the POD or to Krogers, if Krogers gets some more supplies in.
I live about four miles west from IH-45 and the relief trucks [ice, water and food] continue arriving in convoys along with other workers to fix the utilities and removing downed trees. Most of the workers and supplies are continuing down IH-45 to Houston and Galveston. Galveston is about 100 miles down IH-45 from where I live. From Galveston to the Louisiana border, it is a mess, whole communities are gone.
In our area, our biggest problem is power. We have been told that our power plant [three miles away] has major problems. We may have power tomorrow or in two weeks or ????????? !
I hope Mr. Chem is doing OK, I have not seen any posts from him.