Normalcy?

I have 1/2 a battery worth of juice so will try to add some more information. We are still without Comcast......phone, TV, internet. Guess we learned not to put all our eggs in one basket. The city came by this morning and are finally clearing the roads. Of course, the neighborhood residents had already done this by sawing and moving to the edge of the street. Now they are composting all the leaves, etc. Kim did go up on the roof today and we do have a little roof damage. Just a shingle tab missing and some nails that have come up. We'll call the insurance company to see what they think we should do about it. We'd like a pro look to see if it's something we should worry about.

I have to share a funny time during the morning after. The entire family was sitting in the front room with all the windows and doors open (no elect = no a/c). Kristy said she was going to get a drink. She opened the frig and realized that things were melting. That meant giant ice cream party for all! It was so funny! At 9:30am we had a 1/2 gallon of vanilla, 1/2 gallon of butter pecan, some ww fudge bars and ww ice cream sandwiches. It was hilarious!!! We truly were blessed though because that night we got power so our meat was fine. We put everyone's freezer goods into one freezer and never opened the door so 18 hours later it was all still frozen solid.

We're a little disappointed that the national news has stopped covering the devastation. We sure heard a lot about Katrina! We have a POD set up close to our house (point of distribution for ice, water and RME's) and the line is still very long daily. Almost 80% of the Houston and surrounding area is still without power. Scary since the weather is going to get hotter today. We've been truly blessed with temps in the 80's. Our neighborhood has set up it's own ice distribution. 1/2 the neighborhood has power so the "have's" have been making ice and putting it into coolers in specific yards for the "have nots". Kim was doing some yard work this morning and a woman just walked up to him asking if he had ice. We gave her all we had. It's strange that you can feel so guilty for having power.......

Hope I've notified everyone about our status......I'll continue to update when I can get out. We don't venture far from the house often since gas is still in short supply. I need to get to the grocery store today. We're out of veggies, fruit and dairy products.....as of yesterday they had not restocked any of this yet. We continue to praise God for the blessings we have. We are so much better off than the majority of people here.