Hurricane Ike- a thread to post status on recovery

[srmom]

Here's a question regarding bills. I am also expecting a low light bill, but we are running a generator, so have the tv - but no Comcast Cable. I'm wondering if Comcast will lower their bills as well, considering there is no cable reception (I also had no HD for the entire week before the hurricane). Will they make an adjustment?

Opinions?

[ComradesTrue]

Originally Posted by srmom

Here's a question regarding bills. I am also expecting a low light bill, but we are running a generator, so have the tv - but no Comcast Cable. I'm wondering if Comcast will lower their bills as well, considering there is no cable reception (I also had no HD for the entire week before the hurricane). Will they make an adjustment?

Opinions?

Ha!

When our internet was out more than it was working I had to call Comcast over 10 times and wait 3 months before I saw a very small adjustment to my bill.

Good luck with all that!

[nikki1920]

No.

I had issues with my service, and had to call five times and cuss them out and threaten to cancel my service before I saw the reduction.

So, don't hold your breath.

[srmom]

Just for grins, I called Comcast and asked them about it. The lady said that we are indeed in a non-working area, and that, after all the "dust has settled", they will be crediting those who went without service.

I'm not going to hold my breathe, I might suffocate before I get the credit. But, I may be scheduling weekly calls to ask about/demand my credit

[Benzgirl]

I love Guidos.

Here is the good and the bad.
Aunt's house in Port Arthur is fine. No electricity, so they are in Georgetown until it's back on.
Friend in Houston - Minimal damage
Friend's Mother in Crystal Beach - House can't be located.

[SWTXBelle]

Hobby Lobby has Simplicity patterns for $1.99 - got a $16 pattern for my Dicken's on the Strand Costume.

A friend on the Island tried to stay - ended up leaving when 3 ft. of water came in. He got to Ball High School and is in San Antonio. Whew.

And people I really, really hate in Shore Acres got 3 - 4 ft. of water. I am so ashamed of the fact that I hope they are not insured . . . I am trying to be a better person, truly I am.

[texas*princess]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/19/ike....ap/index.html

this isn't neccessarily an update on recovery, but interesting nonetheless

[Thetagirl218]

My cousin outside of Houston just got her power back two days ago!!! She has three little ones....I am sure she had fun in the heat!!!

[SWTXBelle]

Luckily, we've had a "cool front" the last couple of days, so your cousin didn't have to suffer TOO much from the heat. But the lack of television with three little ones - that may have been tough. There are only so many games of Candy Land you can play before you lose your mind!

[SWTXBelle]

LOL - unless they refuged somewhere.

eta - and I am so sorry for what your father is going through down there. Fingers crossed that you get power soon!

[txdiva]

Our power was just restored on Wednesday. Thank God for the cold front! There are still 1400+ people in our county without power.

[SWTXBelle]

If your house is unliveable, FEMA will help. Yeah!
BUT - you have to be willing to move out of the area. Boooo . . .

So if you have a job here, tough darts farmer. This is NOT the way to enable us to recover. We need all hands on deck, and we need our paychecks.

[srmom]

I STILL HAVE NO POWER!!!! UGGGH!!!

I haven't seen any power trucks either, so I'm losing hope that their projected "power by Monday" map is correct!!!

Also, the wonderful cold front left over the weekend, so we spent the last two nights sweltering in bed. We are trying to be economical with the generator (it's running us around $90.00 per day in gasoline), and don't feel we can justify running it all night to only power a fan.

Interesting thing happened last night, and indicative of the paranoia that is rampant.-

My 16 year old son was driving his girlfriend home after watching a movie at a friend's house who has power , it was around 11:00 pm (no school yet!!). They started arguing, so he pulled over (this is within a couple of blocks of our house), well, within minutes, they were surrounded by 3 cop cars, with lights flashing. Apparantly, a neighbor saw the SUV and called the cops, thinking they might be "suspicious characters." So, the cops check my son's drivers license and called us at home, had to try 3 numbers because our land lines don't work, so tried my husband's cell which didn't ring, then mine, which - THANK GOD - did, they told my son that if they couldn't reach us, they were going to take him in to a HOLDING CELL!!! His girlfriend's parents who are running a generator and have no land line either, didn't answer the phone because the generators drown out any other sound (y'all have no idea of the HUMMMM that goes on 24/7 these days), so she tearfully convinced them to drive her to her house because her parents were home, just couldn't be reached, and she didn't want to go to jail.

MIND YOU, they were not ticketed, because they weren't doing anything but sitting there. There was no alchohol, drugs or illicit activity going on, and they were within 3 blocks of their homes... GESTAPO anyone? Show me your papers!!!

I have no problem with the cops checking on them. The streets are PITCH BLACK, with no power anywhere in our neighborhood, so understandably, neighbors are wary of strange cars, BUT, once the cops saw that they were just a couple of neighborhood teenagers, sitting in a car, I think they should have just said, "Kids, it's late, time to go home." And, sent them on their way. What would they have done if it was my husband and I parked on the street? Would they have intimitated us in that way, threatened us with JAIL?

I'm heading down today to check on my dad and his wife, he sounds absolutely AWFUL, they have boats leaning on power lined in their back yard (so I doubt they're getting power anytime soon) - these boats used to be in the yacht club harbor, but were carried by the surge all the way to his back door. Hopefully, I can either cheer him up, or convince him to come home with me. He is 83 years old and should not be dealing with what he's facing. They are eating MREs distributed by the city counsel in Shoreacres, have no power, and were flooded on the bottom floor, so as bad as things are at my house, he is much worse off, and I need to get my priorities straight...

SWTX girl, my dad is in Shoreacres too, I'm sure he knows the people you hate, the city is only a few miles wide, and they are all eating FEMA food at the City Counsel Hall, so if he didn't know them before, he probably does now.

Sorry for the vent, I'm just getting weary..

[IlovemyAKA]

Don't give up srmom. I have power as of Friday, and am more than willing to share with my GC neighbor

[em_adpi]

srmom, one of my sisters down there is on day eleven (i think) with no power... i feel for all of you.