Hurricane Ike- Day 3 Aftermath


by Ernie Fitzpatrick - Date: 2008-09-15 - Word Count: 335 Share This!

Kathi and Paul Norton huddled inside their house in Crystal Beach until it collapsed and was swept away. Their flag pole kept the house from collapsing on top of them, buying them a few seconds to escape, holding onto the staircase. "You never know what a hurricane is like until you ride it on a staircase," said Kathi Norton, 47. As she spoke outside the giant, warehouse-like shelter on a former Air Force base in San Antonio, busloads of new evacuees were arriving, bumper to bumper. Just one of many stories.  

Hurricane Ike has effectively shut down the fourth largest city in America. And the greed that caused the Digital Bust in the late 90's under Bill Clinton, has come again under George Bush, but this time a financial market one. It seems as though we just refuse to learn that we cannot control either nature nor the markets! Black Monday for sure in Houston and maybe Wall Street as well.

Millions of Houston-area residents - sweltering without electricity in the dark, grievously anxious over their fate - finally got a break today: a cold front that dropped temperatures to 68 degrees. Last night I actually had to cover up with a sheet around 4am this morning. A small silver lining

The storm seemingly spared no one, with at least seven fatalities in Texas so far, floodwaters, fallen trees, and shortages of power, water and ice affecting every community from Galveston to Beaumont, Houston to Surfside, The Woodlands to Pearland. Ike also destroyed a number of production platforms and damaged pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico, exasperating a rebuilding effort that is expected to top $10 billion.

Mayor White has imposed a curfew until the weekend. It's that bad!

Grocery stores are opening on a limited basis now, but you have to stand outside and take a number. Even McDonald's ran out of coffee. Starbucks can't open because they don't have milk. It's Monday, but no Monday like we have ever seen before and it may not be limited to just Houston!


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As a spiritual-futurist, I interpret current events in light of possible macro-universal forces at play leading up to 2012, but not limited to it.

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