So here are the pictures of damage caused by Hurricane Ike around our house. I warn you, in the scheme of things, it isn't really much. We got off really lightly!

( Pictures here! )

We woke up this morning to still no more than a trickle of water coming out of our faucets, so I was disappointed to still be unable to take a shower. This after they said last night that the failed pumping station was back online and thus water pressure should be restored in a matter of hours. This morning they said that most of the city had ( Read more... )

We now have no water at all (as opposed to just really low water pressure). I'm starting to really want a bath, but don't have any real prospect of getting one until the city gets the water back online. Unless we just decide to head to Austin in search of cleanliness. If we go another 24 hours without water, I'll probably seriously consider that ( Read more... )

Andrew and I went to bed last night sometime between 10:30 and 11, hoping to get some sleep before we lost power and it potentially got too hot for comfort. Andrew dozed off and on, but I couldn't fall asleep listening to the wind. It was blowing so hard out there that we could feel the house shaking, and whenever it gusted hard enough for the ( Read more... )

First off, let me apologize for this late post. I didn't sleep last night until after 5 in the morning, and thus I didn't get up 'til 11:30 this morning. We've just finished lunch ( Read more... )

Cable TV seems to be gone. Internet still working, though. Odd.

Unrelated aside: FOX on Demand has the current week's episode of Bones available (and older eps also...I'm annoyed as it currently only has selected episodes from Season 3 rather than all of them). At any rate, I may be able to keep up with Season 4 after all, in spite of it ( Read more... )

Testing txtlj for use later.

[EDIT: It worked! Yay! I still get charged $0.20 per text message (sent or received) so I'll be using them sparingly. Plus they take me forever to type since I never text. :P However, this'll at least let me send a message that the power's out, and will let us keep in touch with family while conserving cell phone ( Read more... )

Corwin is in bed ( Read more... )

I'm feeling better after my nap ( Read more... )

Corwin is down for his nap. I'm going to go take a nap, too, so maybe I can be a bit less grumpy this afternoon ( Read more... )