- Jan 3, 2006
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As I'm sure most are aware, the gulf coast area/greater Houston got absolutely DICKED by Beryl a week ago today. Some 2.2M people were without power, and still several hundred thousand are without today. We've had a pretty soggy spring and early summer -- this combined with stronger than expected winds took out LOTS of very large trees resulting in a ton of downed power lines and substations.
We previously had a standby generator installed at our old house given then frequency of extended outages in the area and just did the same a couple of months back at the new crib. Thank CHRIST. I can't fathom potentially still being without power for a week in this heat, especially with kids. I'm frankly surprised there haven't been more fatalities due to heat-related illness.
We previously had a standby generator installed at our old house given then frequency of extended outages in the area and just did the same a couple of months back at the new crib. Thank CHRIST. I can't fathom potentially still being without power for a week in this heat, especially with kids. I'm frankly surprised there haven't been more fatalities due to heat-related illness.