hey everybody!

just wanted to let you know we’re okay. we’re staying with friends in Houston until we get our power back on. from what the neighbors tell us, there wasn’t any high water, we still have our windows, and we lost the fence. i’m okay with that.

we haven’t had any “confirmed” reports about the shack yet. all we know is there’s a picture in the paper within 2 miles of it; everything is in shambles with one house standing. it doesn’t look good. we don’t know when we’ll be allowed back onto the peninsula to check it out ourselves.

yesterday, i was told that i’d be off work for a month. our building wasn’t “breached” but there will be no power to the island for some time. i always thot i would welcome time off like that. now, i’m not so sure.

on a good note, all my idiot friends who stayed, finally got out safely. with all the media hype on just thunderstorms, it’s kinda hard to know when they’re crying wolf these days. some of my buddies thot it would be like Alicia (which was a Cat 3), they’d clean up and be open next week. not so much this time. at the peak of the surge (before the storm even came) there was 13 feet of water in the downtown area of the island. all of my friends’ bars and restaurants are ruined. i’m okay with that, too. they still have their lives.

some are relocating to Austin, Corpus Christi, North Houston and Port Aransas. the stories they’ve told me are unreal. 18 wheeler trailers floated to the middle of the street and now on it’s side. the Battleship Texas now in the Seawolf Park parking lot. 150+ boats spread out to the top of the south bound side of the causeway!

wish my friends well, please. and not to sound ghey or anything, but i have every confidence the island will be rebuilt and we’ll be fine. i’m just looking forward to it now.

p.s. thanks for all your txt’s and well wishes.