no man left behind

as i am still in cancun, i would like to congratulate my friends sara and shawn, they received power today and no longer have to stay in our tiny house :) i do not know if my other friend Robert has received his power yet, but i know that he is hoping he will soon. the chapter is almost closed on Ike. we just need to return the generator and the room air conditioner to our kind fantasy football friends that let us borrow it. i hope everyone else is doing ok. i will continue to blog, just not sure what i am going to talk about :)

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

hi gang! as of 10:45 today, we have power at 1725 viking!!! can you believe it. i am so happy, the lights work, air conditioning everything... it is amazing. we can put water bottles in the refrigerator. i am so happy! thanks to all of your support. it looks like finally, 2 weeks after IKE, it is finally over! have a great weekend!

sunday sunday sunday

hi all. looks like sunday is the latest time line for the power to our house. we will only hope that it is true! jeremy and i are headed to cancun on friday afternoon and will be back on tuesday, if we dont have power by then...heads are gonna roll! not really, there is not anything we can do about it. thank you to our friends for offering their home, watching our dogs, generator, gas cans, fans, laundry services, etc. we are so grateful for your friendship and your stuff :)i will bring pictures of what air conditioning looks like :)

looks like schools are opening up this week so the kiddies will be back at school and hopefully the mess of traffic should be resolved soon. i feel badly for the people who live out near where we used to live, it is taking 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours to get to work! nasty. i am only 7 miles from work and it usually takes 10-15 minutes, lately, it has been 30 or so. gross!

make sure you get your flu shots, flu season is coming up!

OMG the mosquitoes here are terrible, talk about Texas sized. they are HUGE! and all over the place. normally they dont get me too badly, but they are all over the place and biting at all times. the bugs really like gervin, so i dont let him out there for too long, must be because he is so sweet!

have a good day!
m

update from centerpoint

hi all. new update map from centerpoint came out tonight...we are no longer thursday, we are sunday! it keeps moving and that is not good. such a bummer. well, jeremy and i are headed to cancun friday and back on tuesday, so hopefully by the time we get back we will have power and HOT water. i am so disappointed in the city of Houston for allowing all of the outlying areas to get power and the actual city of Houston to now have power. i am turning into a royal bitch about this. sorry :(

if they are going to pass along some kind of charge to users to pay for all of this crap, then they should charge more and put the power lines underground! lets not go two weeks without power and then not make any improvements.

i met a couple of electric people that are from independence MO today and they said that the neighborhood was in a lot worse condition than they expected.

who knew?

who knew that camping could be so much fun! thanks to brian and his generator, i am the only camper with a fan and a 42" LCD flat panel tv :) he also gave us the room air conditioner and we are using that at night (trying to conserve gas) but if it gets too hot, we are not afraid to bust it out during the day! tomorrow is fantasty football friday, and we will have our NFL sunday ticket, our flat panel and our laptops, just like nothing happened, except that if you need to go to the bathroom, you will have to take a flashlight with you! we are not running the fridge on the generator because we dont want to overdo it, plus we just have drinks and luckily we stopped at walgreens today and they had the hottest thing next to gasoline... ICE!

this is something i have never experienced before and i really appreciate everyone checking on us, and offering help. things are definitely not back to normal, and we are not expecting power until thursday, good news is, we are going on vacation on friday :) cancun. should be fun,but it would be nice to have power before then.

have a great sunday everyone!

we are at home

we are at home today. we came home last night after fantasy football rivals, and real life friends loaned us their generator and portable air conditioning unit! it is awesome! i will try to take pics later and attach them to my next blog. we did get an update from centerpoint energy last night, a new map shows our zip code should have power thursday sept 25, almost 2 weeks after it went out. we are hoping it comes in before then, but at least we are living with a fan, TV, and directtv. we are also able to charge our laptops and have internet access thanks to at & t getting the phones working yesterday.

this is the map. we are the dark turquoise, so that is thursday, our zip is 77018. we are hoping for before thursday but with the generator, tv and the portable air conditioning unit we are doing ok. just hoping the temps dont get as high as they are projecting.

i will update as i receive more information. i applied for FEMA assistance to see if they will reimburse for a generator, although we have borrowed one now, so we are ok if they say no. they DO NOT answer their phones! gervin and chica are doing great, it is amazing how much they are just rolling with the punches, although they definitely enjoyed their time with brenda!

thanks to everyone who has helped us, the refugees out. we have definitely been around since losing our power a week ago.

back to work!

hi everyone, we are back at work this morning. things are very busy with people wanting to cancel their schedules because of the devastation in Houston. but things are getting back to normal. a lot of restaurants are open and people are beginning to get their water and power back. we have water now, no power. we stayed at peter and brenda's last night and had spaghetti and meatballs...our FAVORITE! we are so grateful for the Waits allowing us to stay there and gervin and chica are having a great time exploring a new house. chica tried to go into our old house when we first got there...she is so smart! jeremy and i carpooled into work today from Spring, it was a long drive but not too bad, lots of lights were out so the back ways took a while.
we will go by our home later today and see if the power somehow has come back on. our zip code is still 75% out of power. we will see if it gets any better today. they have a lot of crews working so we are hoping for a fast recovery.
i have to get back to work and see if i can find someone who wants to advertise to make up for the lost dollars today :)

have a great day!
missy