Hey Joel

[ronald]

Cajun Blue

What Rodney are you referring to in Houston? Is he an umpire? I might know who you are referring to> Any chance his last name begins with S?

Ron

[BretMan]

I can't even imagine what you guys must be going through down there or the magnitude of that storm at landfall. I'm a thousand miles away from where Ike hit Texas and we got walloped yesterday!

The remnants of Ike blew through Ohio yesterday and the winds still packed a punch. 80 m.p.h. gusts knocked out power to a half-million customers, ripped off roofs and downed tress throughout the area. And the center of the storm was a couple hundred miles north of us!

My yard is littered with debris and fallen branches. Sections of my neighbors six foot wooden fence were knocked down and a gate was ripped away from my fence.

Surprisingly, we were far enough away from the center that little rain fell- just a few sprinkles. It isn't uncommon for hurricanes to come inland, then stall out over the midwest, staying in one place and dumping rain for several days.

[CajunNewBlue]

Originally Posted by ronald

Cajun Blue

What Rodney are you referring to in Houston? Is he an umpire? I might know who you are referring to> Any chance his last name begins with S?

Ron

Nope... it begins with a R I got to call on the same complex with him and his wife in Florida this summer.

[whiskers_ump]

OK,

I am back. Elec came back 7:00 am today.

Three trees down, nothing major to the new house. Had to replace two
sheets of the metal roofing, and a piece of my fireplace chimmey.

Got almost all the trees in front cleaned up, so things picking up.

MRE's have improved since I was in the military.

Hope everyone else got through IKE OK.

[JEL]

Originally Posted by whiskers_ump

OK,

I am back. Elec came back 7:00 am today.

Three trees down, nothing major to the new house. Had to replace two
sheets of the metal roofing, and a piece of my fireplace chimmey.

Got almost all the trees in front cleaned up, so things picking up.

MRE's have improved since I was in the military.

Hope everyone else got through IKE OK.

Good to hear you made it through better than the last time.

I guess you are now gonna use those three trees and build another room?

Hope all get back to normal soon.

[bigsig]

Originally Posted by whiskers_ump

OK,

I am back. Elec came back 7:00 am today.

Three trees down, nothing major to the new house. Had to replace two
sheets of the metal roofing, and a piece of my fireplace chimmey.

Got almost all the trees in front cleaned up, so things picking up.

MRE's have improved since I was in the military.

Hope everyone else got through IKE OK.

MRE's? What about C-Rats?

Glad you're OK!

[Gulf Coast Blue]

Thanks for all the kind thoughts and prayers from everyone..........!!!!!

My mother got back power this afternoon............a little over 7-1/2 days after she lost it. It will be another week or two for me as I lost my service drop from a big pecan limb falling down. Single point connections are always the last to be reconnected. Luckily........no damage to my meter, service can, weather head....etc......

I have cleaned up about 95% of my mom's place and about 80% of mine.

I did get everything out of both refrigerators and freezers before they got bad.

My oldest two daughters live on the north side of Houston and fared well even though they rode out the storm with their Mom at her mothers house here in Texas City.

Unfortunately.............all the structures outside of our levee system inside TC were destroyed...........but our levee did a good job and there was very little flooding within it.

My house is at 6.5 feet above sea level and my mothers is at 7.2. with our pumps and the levee (22 feet), we were very fortunate.

Thanks again for all the thoughts and prayers and thank you Glen for starting this thread. It has been a rough week..........but there are other people out there in our area that have it worse.

Thanks to all...............

Joel

[whiskers_ump]

Originally Posted by Gulf Coast Blue

Thanks for all the kind thoughts and prayers from everyone..........!!!!!

My mother got back power this afternoon............a little over 7-1/2 days after she lost it. It will be another week or two for me as I lost my service drop from a big pecan limb falling down. Single point connections are always the last to be reconnected. Luckily........no damage to my meter, service can, weather head....etc......

I have cleaned up about 95% of my mom's place and about 80% of mine.

I did get everything out of both refrigerators and freezers before they got bad.

My oldest two daughters live on the north side of Houston and fared well even though they rode out the storm with their Mom at her mothers house here in Texas City.

Unfortunately.............all the structures outside of our levee system inside TC were destroyed...........but our levee did a good job and there was very little flooding within it.

My house is at 6.5 feet above sea level and my mothers is at 7.2. with our pumps and the levee (22 feet), we were very fortunate.

Thanks again for all the thoughts and prayers and thank you Glen for starting this thread. It has been a rough week..........but there are other people out there in our area that have it worse.

Thanks to all...............

Joel

Glad everything worked out Joel. Got 90% of my trees cleaned up and 80% of
the other mess blown around.

[whiskers_ump]

Originally Posted by bigsig

MRE's? What about C-Rats?

Glad you're OK!

Same thing, much improved, each package has a self heating unit to heat the
main course. High proteen stuff to keep the troops going.

No free cigarettes in these though.

[whiskers_ump]

Originally Posted by ronald

Cajun Blue

What Rodney are you referring to in Houston? Is he an umpire? I might know who you are referring to> Any chance his last name begins with S?

Ron

He was referring to Roth, but by now sure that has been clarified.