The upholstery is probably shot, but the suckers are expensive and worth repairing.
]]>We may need to go back to flags to see if we can alert people, because too many people are coming home too tired to deal with the news.
Those things, if it was a standard motorized wheelchair, are bulky, unreasonably heavy, and subject to tipping over. Most of then have a center of gravity that is way too high.
It may have been one of those “scooters” that they tell people can be used on lawns, but they have many of the same problems.
Dry it out and it should be fine. It’s just an electric motor. The battery is toast, but the chair should be alright.
]]>One of my neighbors didn’t even know there was a storm. No, she’s far from stupid; when she went to work, there was no storm, and when she came home, she didn’t turn on the TV. Quite a few people came home to a surprise.
As noted on my own comment thread, we’ve had one close call today already in Houston. A guy managed to roll his motorized wheelchair off the edge of one of the bayou hike ‘n’ bike trails… why was he there? who knows… and it took several emergency responders to pull him out of the bayou and get him to the hospital. The wheelchair was not so fortunate.
]]>Stella is now convinced. They closed the community college here, and her saxophone lesson was canceled as a result.
Freeport and Galveston are taking some weather already, lots of rain right on the coast. Having once been in a Galveston beach house during a minor storm, I don’t like the looks of those waves on TV. Residents are being redirected to roads less liable to flooding, but there is no official call to evacuate yet. Gov. Goodhair has placed some state emergency resources on alert, for whatever that’s worth. Houston (all partisan prejudice aside) has some pretty good emergency planners in both city government (predominantly Democratic) and county government (predominantly Republican).
Personally, I think we’re as ready as we can reasonably be. And be reassured that while we are only a couple of blocks from a bayou, we have a decent elevation, and drainage is pretty good… I’ve lived here 12 years, and the apartments themselves have never flooded, not even during T.S. Allison.
I’ll be online as long as I have power and a connection.
]]>My most difficult task may be persuading Stella to stay home tomorrow. I mean, normally her stubbornness, um, I mean, determination is a positive characteristic, but even her vehicle would not survive T.S. Allison-like waters.
At the moment, it’s not even raining here. I just took Tabitha to the vet, and neither of us got wet on the way. She wasn’t too happy with being stuck with a needle, though…
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