Saturday, September 24, 2005

Houston, Saturday, September 24, 9:20 am

SARAH: So this seems to be the extent of our damage:


The cannas are a little squashed and we've lost a few strips of veneer off the shed door. The next door neighbors have a branch down and some uprooted shrubbery. All in all, at least where we are, it really wasn't worth all the anxiety.

We do have a number of fires happening across the city and down along the coast, but HFD is still operating and has water pressure so they've been able to extinguish them fairly quickly. HPD reported 28 burglary calls last night - which is actually fewer than Houston gets on a normal night.

A fun fact I heard on the news this morning - NASA closed down Mission Control for the duration and handed over control of the Space Station to the Russian Space Agency.