You know I have never been afraid of doing some yardwork, but that took on a whole new meaning this weekend. I spent the last two days cleaning up from Ike and using the excuse to just cleanup in general around my backyard. With the help of my excellent neighbors, I got all of the [...]
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I understand why they do it… but still.
September 20th, 2008 
Chris Doelle I find it interesting how all the commercial areas of my part of Houston got up and running extremely fast. If it was a place that had something for sale, power was restored right away. After that, it seemed that the “high dollar” parts of town got their power restored. I guess us “po folks” [...]
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Tags: ass whitening, electricity, hurricane ike, News, panera bread, Weather 
1 Comment »Outages in my area expected to last until Monday
September 18th, 2008 Chris Doelle According to the Centerpoint Energy website, the zip code where my house in Houston is sitting has 55% outage right now and is not expected to come back up until Monday. The website has some very useful maps and links if you or someone you know is in an affected area.
I know you have seen it, but I did this for me
September 18th, 2008 Chris Doelle Tina Fey’s representation of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin for the premiere of Saturday Night Live’s new season was so freakin’ hilarious. I originally missed it because although I do TiVo new episodes of SNL, all of Houston’s regular programming was preempted by Hurricane Ike reporting. As a result I had both SNL and [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Movie Reviews & TV, News, Politics, Weather Tags: hillary clinton, sarah palin, snl, tina fey No Comments »I am seriously digging this weather
September 17th, 2008 Chris Doelle Again, the best of wishes go out to everyone in the South Central Texas region dealing with the after effects of Hurricane Ike, but I have to tell you – things here are amazing. The past week I have woke up to temperatures in the low 60′s and tonight it is supposed to drop down [...]
Ike, Ike, Baby!
September 13th, 2008 Chris Doelle I have gotten several emails, twitters, etc. from friends around the country wondering how I weathered (pun intended) Hurrican Ike. A lot of them had no clue that I have relocated from Houston to San Marcos, but some that were well aware of it just heard “hurricane hits Texas” and figured that means we are [...]
Posted in Environment, Friends & Family, News, Weather Tags: enchanted rock, Football, fredericksburg, houston, hurricane ike, power, rain, san marcos, texas, Weather No Comments » April 24th, 2004 Chris Doelle Pennie and I went to the San Jacinto monument despite the rainy morning and reports of eminent thunderstorms all day. And you know what happened? For the several hours we were there, it sprinkled a bit in the morning and then cleared up into a beatiful day until we left in the evening when the [...]
