It’s Electric!

September 21st, 2008 | View Comments

Judging by the time blinking on my yet-to-be-reset alarm clock, our power came back on at 7:30pm this evening, bringing our total time without power to 7 days and 16 hours.

I have lots to write about Ike and about Atlas Shrugged, which I devoured in the absence of the internet. But for now I’m just reporting in. We are totally fine. We lost of a bunch of condiments and natto from the fridge and would have welcomed the luxury of hot water (no running water for the first three days post-Ike at all; no hot water until the power came back), but we prepared adequately and thus we’ve been living more comfortably than you would on an average camping trip.

Which is obviously not the case for large swaths of the greater Houston area and up and down the Gulf coast; we’re among the lucky ones. Please donate to the relief effort if you can.