As the Meter Turns or Doesn't

Hi folks. My moms favorite soap since I can recall was "As the World Turns." Its a daily connection that millions of folks make, just checking on their favorite characters and their makeup TV lives. We've taken up a different daily watching event. When will the power come back on? Unfortunately, there's still no power at our house in Baytown, it'll be two weeks today. Everyone else has power on our block except for two houses, ours and our next door neighbor. All the trucks seemed to have left the neighborhood for greener pastures. Don't mean to sound a downer, its just been a long ordeal, especially for Jared who remains at home, stoking the generator, plodding around in the dark, and without AC. Guess we should continue to pray for Centerpoint energy crews and others as they do the difficult work they do. It's almost impossible to actually talk to a live person with the situation the way it is, and when you finally get someone, they can't tell you anything. There's still lots of other folks without power as well and overall, we were blessed compared to many who lost much more and many who lost everything. The good news is, I've not used one volt, watt, or buzz of electricity in two weeks! At the rate I'm going my next bill may be a big goose egg, although I'm really looking forward for the first time in seeing that meter hum, just as fast as it wants to go. That's my daily soapbox on "as the meter turns," or in our case, as it doesn't turn. Tune in tomorrow, when we hear Jared say, "where the h*#* that Centerpoint truck? Thanks for reading and commenting.

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How high's the water mama? Here's an interesting link from Noaa weather. You click on the link and watch the water surge into our area during IKE. Looks like the surge at my house was 19.5'. Amatuer weather person and eyewitness to it all while it happened, I guessed 20' surge by the laymens eye.

Oh yeah, St Thomas is nothing short of terrific! Truly coming to be one of our favorite places in the world. Although we did take a fishing trip yesterday and caught nada, nothing, not one fish. First time the guide said he'd ever been totally blanked in 9 years of guiding here in St Thomas.

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