Hurricane Ike

Well we fared the storm. It hit Galveston at about 2am on Saturday morning 9-14. It started hard here by 6am. It was a little hard to sleep. Let me just say, wow. We are extremely lucky. We were totally and completely unprepared. We have some roof damage, those damn insurance people were supposed to call by today but they haven't. We lost power, Rick says, for about 9 hours but I slept through most of it. It was on when I got up at noonish.

Yes, we are of the lucky few. 2.2 million customers were out of power, roughly 4 million people. But not us. We have satellite, internet, hot water, food....Even now, several days later, most of the people I know here are without power. Most of Cypress does have it but not Fairfield. We are the only ones with roof damage in our neighborhood.

Ike was a Category 2, and hit at 110 mph. Galveston is meSsed up. Nicholas was out of school Friday and will be out for the remainder of this week. Worked on Sunday at Pizza hut, we did carryout only, and it was crazy. Scott kept telling us, don't take orders, take orders, don't take orders. I know we pissed off more than a few customers. I don't get why. It's like they didn't realize that there was a hurricane and that everybody & their mama would want food because there was no power. We only sold large and med. handtossed, beef, pepperoni, or cheese. And the customers weren't happy. Did I tell you that we were one of maybe 3 food places OPEN???? You would think these people would realize that we were short on employees, getting our asses kicked and ALSO went through an effen hurricane.

So I called today to see if we were delivering and Victor said we were but for some reason we did not have many deliveries, only carryout. I wonder why. Very strange to me. We were closing at 8 too so I didn't go in since Rick needed to fix someone's computer for Subway.

What I would do differently....

if it was a harder hit, a harder look at evacuation
more more more water
ice ice, baby
more non-perishable food

I don't know. If we had done any of these things it would have been a waste but it could have been sooo much worse.

Aunt Bettye and the rest of that side of the family went to Smithville to ride out the storm in her RV. I was so worried but thank goodness they didn't get any weather. They are extremely lucky that the storm went east a little.