Life Interrupted in Houston

Well, Hurricane Ike has come and gone, and Houston is much worse for it. We were in a mandatory evac zone, so we went to San Antonio for a few days to escape the winds and rain. We left around 3am Friday morning, and missed most of the traffic out of town.
We had a nice time seeing some of the places there, and visiting some of our favorite restaurants, but it was hard to watch the news coverage there about what was going on back home.

Galveston is pretty much devastated, a number of people were killed and many missing. Luckily, our area of Houston was not as hard hit, but once we made it home on Monday, we had a lot of clean up to do and we did have a pretty large pile of limbs and about 20 bags of leaves and other debris piled up by the street once we were finished. The power went out Friday night, the 12th, and didn't come back on until Tuesday the 16th. Luckily, we were gone most of that time. Only one night at home with no power. The internet service did not come back up until late on the 16th, so I ended up missing 3 1/2 days of work.

Schools closed last Thursday the 11th, and at this time, the plan is to reopen next Monday the 23rd, but some school buildings have been damaged, so that may change.

No football practice this week, of course, but we haven't had any word from the coaches, so not sure when that will start back up. We were actually supposed to play in Galveston on Saturday the 13th, of course that did not happen! I guess we will make that up at some point.

The city is still pretty much shut down. No traffic lights working, stores have very little food. There are food and water hand out stations popping up around town to help people who have nothing. No one is allowed to cross the bridge to Galveston, so not sure when those people can go home.

Luckily, we did find a couple of resturants open, so we won't starve!

More updates to come as we find out what happens next.