Which way you going Billy? Ike reroutes traffic at the Bank of America building on Calder Avenue in Beaumont, Texas.
Hideho! Or as they say in somewhere: IOhedih
I have been Iked since Friday evening. About mid-evening Friday, Ike started blowing in and the ‘lectricity went out and stayed out until early Tuesday night. I likewise have had a difficult time finding wi-fi about town. My new laptop is in the DHL place in Houston and hopefully they will deliver it to me tomorrow. I finally purchased another broadband card, this time from Verizon, so hopefully I will be back up and running even better.
Beaumont (Texas, where I live) was Iked pretty good. In some respects the damage (since I am writing this at home and will be sending from Starbucks, I hope to have a photo or two but if I don’t, sorry, I will later) didn’t appear as bad as from Rita in September 2005. But that is just in Beaumont and plenty of places and things did get hammered here.
Ike did demolish a lot of other places worse than Rita such as Orange and Bridge City, in neighboring Orange County. I imagine Sabine Pass and Cameron also took a pretty good pounding. And I have seen the destruction on TV of Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston. It’s sad because I have such fond memories of those places in my younger and wilder days. But they will be back albeit probably much different.
That’s it for now. Happy birthday to my favorite northern Pole, Sally in Pittsfield, Mass. We’ve been friends for more than 30 years and have lived many miles apart for all but a couple of those years. Thus, a little morality lesson: Friendship knows no geographical boundaries.
Some new sidewalk will be needed by the historic McFaddin-Ward Home in Beaumont’s Old Town Section.