All is getting back to normal here in Katy following 72 hours of Hurricane Rita preparation, watching, waiting, and hassle. No milk or bread at our local Randalls this morning, and the parking lot of our HEB was so crowded that I didn't even try to check there.
Everyone on our street is cleaning up their minor storm debris. We got our plants out of the garage and got 'em watered. The sprinkler is running to rescue our lawn from the dry spell that wasn't broken.
Work re-starts tomorrow for everyone who can make it in. We've located most of our team, either in town or just returned.
It was good to get our HCODT (Houston Chronicle On Dead Trees) today. The Web is great, but I still like newsprint as well. Sarcasm has made its return, courtesy of comedians-in-residence like Ken Hoffman.
So ... why were there power outages in cities like Bellaire, where the wind hit maybe 35-40 mph? Reliant needs to name stadiums less, and fix its equipment more.Posted by Alan at September 25, 2005 02:33 PMI knew the hurricane was a no-show when my satellite TV signal never went out. Usually, I can tell it's drizzling in Conroe when my television goes blank in Houston.
And how come fuel trucks couldn't make it to Houston, but Tom DeLay and Sheila Jackson Lee had no problem getting here? The wrong bags of gas got through.
Did four different TV stations need to be doing 24-hour hurricane coverage without even a commercial break? After a while, I couldn't tell the difference between Dave Ward and Tom Koch and those two idiots in the drive-through at Sonic....
CNN interviewed a pop culture professor from Syracuse University and asked him to comment on TV news going berserk with Hurricane Rita coverage. He said, after Katrina, it was to be expected.
That's why Channels 2, 11, 13 and 26 stayed on around the clock, even though nothing was really happening. Nobody wanted to be the first to blink. It was a contest, who cares more about Houston?
If one of the stations had gone back to regular programming, it would have been the first 100 percent rating in the history of Houston television.