Hurricane Ike- Day 6 Aftermath!
Ice, food, water, and gasolione are just a couple of the critical life sustaining items for those living in Southeast Teaxs. And FEMA’s new plan calls for each of the distribution centers to be equipped with three trucks each for ice, food and water. The trucks will form a continual relay to keep the centers stocked. So, the now say after a couple of misrerably managed initial days.
Russ Knocke, Department of Homeland Security spokesman, said today’s deliveries to the Reliant Park staging area would include 185 trucks loaded with bottled water; 159 trucks of meals; and 139 trucks of ice. White, noting that the order to boil Houston tap water has been lifted, urged residents who have access to tap water not to unnecessarily accept bottled water.
The Houston City Council appropriated $25 million for debris removal and emergency needs as city solid waste officials estimated that they face handling up to 6.5 million cubic yard of junk from the hurricane. Ninety crews now are working in all parts of the city. More workers will be added and ultimately will be collecting 100,000 cubic yards of storm garbage daily.
DAILY! Who can fathom such?
So, a very practical question. Who is going to fix all these fences? Someone owns the fence. Unless there is a community association rule or city ordinance saying otherwise (and often times there is), there is not any obligation to even put up a fence. Ah, but we love our privacy now don’t we? So, in most cases neighbors will split the cost, but that is by agreement not law. In other words, common sense. :-)
On the electricity front, most of the news is still not encouraging. But, progress is being made, unless your lights have not come back on adn then you might disagree. Up to half of CenterPoint Energy’s customers in Houston and surrounding areas may still be without power by Tuesday. That’s another WEEK!
The electric transmission company projected Tuesday that 50 percent to 75 percent of its residential and business customers will have power in seven days. Is that encouraging news? It depends upon who’s ox is being gored! Floyd LeBlanc, vice president of communications for CenterPoint, said in a news conference that the estimates are based on predictive modeling software. The company will refine the models as power restoration proceeds, he said.
CenterPoint’s best-case scenario is that 563,000 customers will be out of power next week. The worst-case is that 1.1 million will be. As of Wednesday afternoon, 1.4 million of the utility’s 2.2 million customers were without power.
What a mess Ike has spiked! :-(
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