Heading Toward Houston Tomorrow

We plan to drive to Houston tomorrow morning. We called the apartment this afternoon and received our answering machine. That must mean that the electricity is on at the apartment ... and that looters have at least not stolen the answering machine.

We've been in contact with our builder and our agent. The builder says the new house incurred no damage except for some fencing down and some shrubbery destroyed. He also says that the electricity is still out at the new house. Everyone, except me, seems to think we can close on Friday as planned. I'm not optimistic about that. I want the inspector to come back out at least to look at the roof and to make sure no water has entered the attic, etc. I don't think we can make that happen by Friday.

Also it appears that my financial advisor didn't get my email directing her to get funds made available. I called her today and got that process started. One more notch in my ulcer.

We moved out of the Hyatt on Monday and spent last night and will spend tonight with our friends Gridley and Terry at their house in San Antonio. We're going to leave as early as practical tomorrow morning and hopefully will be at the new house in late morning. Our builder is working at the subdivision tomorrow and will let us into the house. We'll see if we see anything horrible for ourselves and start making plans from there. After that we'll go to our apartment and at least empty the now undoubtedly disgusting fridge. If the place is livable, we'll stay there. We have plenty of bottled water and some food with us. I don't expect that we'll have telephone or internet so bear with us for a while on that front.

The Chevron office in Houston is closed for general business until Monday. It is open for mission critical people, which doesn't include me ... he says thankfully.

So that's it. Wish us luck.