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[Tex]

OT Ike

Thanks. The surge wasn't nearly as bad in Galveston as feared, though emergency operators did receive a high volume of futile rescue request calls from the island. The fear was that the 14' sea wall would be swamped with 20-25' surge and the island would be largely wiped clean, but this didn't materialize: surge was closer to 10'.

Power out for 4.5 million near Houston, and nontrivial property damage, but not nearly the scenario that my family had in mind when we decided to evacuate: The projection Thursday morning was for the hurricane to hit as a category 4 and close to 5, which would have been radically worse. Hitting as a nearly-3 was really a stroke of good fortune.

I won't return to Houston until I have reason to think I have power. Currently, power exists downtown and the Texas Medical Center, which are areas in which power lines are all underground. I'm very close to the Medical Center, so power restoration is likely to be pretty swift once it begins in earnest Monday.

Take care,
--Tex.