Thanks Everyone!...could not get any phone messages , cell tower down close to me until a day ago...we got power last night at 7 pm...office still had no power last night ,going there in an hour to check out situation... thanks for thinking of us...wer`e doing fine..wife and son have worked 2 and 3 days , their ofc`s got power...we had quite a bit of debris, trees ,limbs etc...no water for 2 days, but I had scorched the pool just before and it was the first thing I cleaned out so we could swim in lieu of showers...otherwise it been like a nice fall camping vacation...the cool weather REALLY helped...neighbors been very nice ,we`ve had an evening party every night at someones back yard, wine ,beer and scotch! Actually its been a real nice extra vacation...at least if youre a former military and boy scout! weather couldnt have been better, open doors and windows , cool weather...interestingly no mosquitos! but as we had dinner "out on the terrace" (read patio) last night power came on...and it wasnt more that 20 minutes later the mosquitos were back!! How did they know? lol but the first day after the hurricane, as I was cleaning up some with a borrowed chain saw, here comes Carl and Fleur and started to help with their chain saw...! later Carl and I drove over to Sara and Andy to check on them...they were fine...no power, but no oher problems...they got power back 2 days ago, I heard ,but as I drove by there yesterday ,they had lost it again...andy is sitting in the SUV outside with his laptop plugged in via some antenna and car power...
But I did hear some bad news via a PY guy in Alabama , he told me that Danny Reegan (in Galveston) lost his house,his truck, his trailer ,his 69 GTO, and about $100,000 worth of audio visual inventory,,,they did an evac to Austin, guess in his wifes car, with the 2 grand kids they are raising... I have not vereified yet...and its only 3rd hand info, so I hope alot of it is wrong...
Have not yet heard anything from or about Loretta and Lee Atkinson in Seabrook??
I`m going to be busy today ,going thru , probably 1000`s of emails etc... when I get power at the office I`ll download and post a few pics.... later....
oh , and I did have time 2 days ago, in the great weather ,to back the bird out and touch up some paint on the engine! had emailed Bill ( Bill Hirsch)last week to order some, and told him I would after Ike, but as I was rummaging thru the garage , I stumbled across a spray can I must have had for awhile, hoidden waaaay in the back...
only lingering problem is that I cannot get my elec garage door hooked up again...I had a hard time to get it to release...had to yank on the srcew bar (the top where the turning screw is) to get it to release, now it wont hook back on...but eventually , we`ll figure it out... doing lots of laundry now as I`m getting ready to head to he office!
