[bubborn]

I've been down in Houston since Sunday to do some clean up work after Ike's destruction. Houston itself isn't too horrible, mostly broken windows, flooding, and widespread power outages. The island off Houston named Galveston got the worst of it. Most of the pics below are from the drive to Galveston and downtown Galveston itself. I'm kind of short on time, so can't go on a long winded essay on the situation right now, but if you have any questions please ask away.

On a sad side note, power in my area of Ohio went out the day after we left and is still not on. A phone call to my mom who is the caretaker of my saltwater reef tank last night didn't sound too promising. I asked her to check the temperature and while checking it and saying it's down to 64 she mentioned it's also getting cloudy and starting to smell bad I'm guessing when I get home in a couple weeks the tank will be a total loss and I'm not sure I'm gonna have it in me to start over.

The line for gas




Every billboard looks like one of these two



Boats didn't fair so well...



The highway to Galveston


Galveston now that it's a ghost town