On our way to "Austin Museum Day" last Sunday, we took a short bus ride from where we parked into downtown. Two women on the bus with us were heading into town with the same idea. As they departed a few stops before us, one said to the other "this is the best evacuation ever!". While I'm sure those who suffered significant losses would not agree, I could not help but smile over those two and their impromptu vacation.
My family stayed in Houston and thankfully only suffered minor damage to their homes. Nathan and Kelly found a leaky window. My parents lost both of the trees in the front yard and part of their backyard fence. Luckily they weren't as bad off as some of their neighbors, who lost major chunks of roof. The real downside is the lack of electricity that is still stretching on for them, potentially over a few weeks. I think Nathan and Kelly have water and electricity, although the water pressure is crap when it's working and the water is not safe to drink. No one is going to work because no employers want to make their employees drive given the lack of gasoline. Even here in Austin there are roadside signs heading out of town warning not to drive to Houston or Beaumont due to a lack of gasoline availability on the way.
After a whole lot of potential doom and gloom from Austin meterologists, we got absolutely nothing from the storm. Oh, pardon me, it did drizzle at my house Saturday night. I was kind of bummed. I had my relax at home weekend all planned. Sitting at home doesn't feel as nice when it's nice outside. Since the lazy plan was shot, we decided to be productive citizens and take advantage of the free museum admission. We visited the German Free House, the Capitol, the Mexic-Arte museum, and the ArtHouse. It was absolutely beautiful out, and my trusty camera helped me capture some images to share. I'll put them up in another post soon.
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Glad your parents and N&K all weathered the storm with only minor damage. I was thinking about them and wondering whether they would all stay in town. Phoenix had a storm a couple of weeks ago that knocked out power to some of the downtown neighborhoods for a week. Phoenix in September is no fun without A/C. It was a boon to the local hotels though. And, predictably, people are suing the power company for not installing better poles and/or maintaining them better (the poles literally snapped in half), thereby causing the extended outage that left the contents of their refrigerators spoiled. Good lord. Deal with it. You people live in $400,000 houses.
Geez Kate, don't you know those people can't afford a hotel AND their mortgage payment? :)
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