An Update On YDD
Steve’s friend put up an update at 12:29PM and they are still without power, and Steve’s back-up plan to use dial-up on his laptop was also thwarted by the failure of the modem, so the IWS [Internet Withdrawal Syndrome] continues.
Everyone is bored, but at least a cold front moved through dropping the temperature at night down to 60° so they can sleep.
No word on when the power might be back, but power has been restored to a third of the Centerpoint customers, leaving 1.5 million still in the dark.
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iws is a bear. worse than caffeine withdrawal maybe.
the dog’s formerly early morning walk today was an early morning mad dash instead — yay! somebody turned the ac back on!
I spent a lot of the day outside because it was 80° with a nice breeze and sunny. There are things that need doing outside.
I’m baaa-aaack!
The power went on here about a half hour ago. I was sitting in the front door of my apartment and glanced toward the kitchen. Seeing a light on the inside of the open fridge door (empty; all the food died yesterday at the latest), I thought, oh crap, I left a flashlight on. Then I thought, that’s too bright for a flashlight; the sun must be shining in the window at that point. But it was too bright and the wrong color light for the sun. Yep, the fridge was back on, trying to cool all outdoors.
The IWS was really bad. Today I went out looking for a computer and a connection (and a few necessary things)… no luck. The drive was the most dangerous thing I’ve personally encountered since the storm, thanks to dead traffic signals and unsurprisingly crazy Houston drivers.
Thanks, Bryan, for helping to let people know we were all safe. I’ll write up the whole thing in a couple of hours on the YDD. I’m glad y’all didn’t get hit with this, but I admit I’m sorry anyone had to suffer it. I look at pics of those coastal towns we go to for recreation, and it just makes me cry.
People have no real appreciation for what one of these things is like until they see it in person right after the storm after living through the sound of the wind.
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Glad you and family made it through OK with sanity intact Steve.
I also know it isn’t easy and you have much to do. Good luck, and I wish I could help out, as I am sure many here do.
It is frustrating to know that you have things sitting in a box that would be useful, but there’s no way of getting them there.
After Katrina we had to wait for the Air Force to send a combat engineering team to a base in Mississippi before we could send the things we collected, because the military engineers were the ones who cleared the entire route. One guy said that for a while they were at walking pace as the people with chain saws were removing trees from the road right in front of the convoy, and a couple of times they weren’t sure that they wouldn’t need to have a combat bridge airdropped to them. Fortunately the scout chopper was able to locate standing bridges.
Air conditioning and communications – it’s tough to be without them down here.