How's everyone in Rita's path??/

vwbill · Post by **vwbill** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 7:39 pm

Hope everyone is doing good in the path of Rita!!!! Stay safe!! Bill

MGVWfan · Post by **MGVWfan** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 8:44 pm

We're in Shreveport, LA, so we'll see in a few days how things went in Houston...

Thanks for the concern Bill!

vwbill · Post by **vwbill** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 2:59 pm

Good to hear you're doing well! Have a safe trip back! Take care everyone! bill

MGVWfan · Post by **MGVWfan** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:28 am

We're leaving today to go back to Houston, I expect things should be OK at home from the word a friend sent back.

vwbill · Post by **vwbill** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:46 pm

Great to hear you're headin back! You gonna pickup the MG? Hope all is well there for everyone!! bill

MGVWfan · Post by **MGVWfan** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:00 pm

In case you're curious...no damage here in Clear Lake

On the way back, I picked up the two front wheels from the MG, and my favorite local tire store is looking for rim bands (rubber protectors that keep the spoke nipples from puncturing the inner tubes) now...they found 175R14 tires (wonder of wonders!), and inner tubes. Hopefully, tomorrow they'll get the rim bands in and mount the tires, then I can go back up and install the wheels and drive the MG back. At least it was completely undamaged, that was good news.

East Texas from Diboll south to Mont Belvieu is without power, mostly without gasoline, lots of downed trees, LOTS of trashed electric transmission pylons and downed distribution lines. It's not pretty. I can see why Entergy is reporting 2-6 weeks without power in many locations. It would take an army division or two a minimum of 2 weeks to do field repairs on the power grid, and that's something like 50000 troops. Entergy's got something like 15000 on the ground now, mostly "mutual aid" from unaffected power companies. Lots of cars scattered beside US 59 from Lufkin to Livingston. Bad grits.