Erika and I just got in, and we’ve got power, water, internet and TV!
Now the cleanup starts – emptying the fridge & freezer, buying more food, recabling the home office after I ripped out the UPS’s to power our phones, etc.
I won’t blog detailed info about Ike because we were among the lucky ones. I think I’m the first person I know to have all of the amenities back. Any words I say here would detract from the people who have it really rough. We spent yesterday helping Erika’s parents clean out fallen trees from their yard, and at one point had a fallen power line light up the festivities.
We had it really easy, and it still sucked. Enough said.
I’ll be back on the job tomorrow at the Caroline Collective. I’ve got an AT&T wireless card, and they’ve got power, and I’ll see if I can cobble up some kind of internet sharing with it.
Our thoughts and prayers are with everybody who still doesn’t have the basics, and who lost their homes. I don’t even want to think about the real death toll yet – there’s plenty of rumblings on Twitter about floating bodies in Bolivar.
Glad to hear you’re alright and your hit was relatively minor.