[Greg]

Yippee! Melva got in touch with our landlord's son. They've been the house we're renting and there was no damage: No trees down, no windows broken, no flooding. There's a power line down so they had to get out of their car to walk the property but so far that's the only known drama. As soon as the power is back on, we can head on back. The city of Houston is asking people not to even think about returning before tomorrow morning so that they can clean up the mess.

Kimmy, I still haven't heard beans about San Leon or even Texas City. The optimist in me wants to think that if the water topped the dikes, we would have heard about it. The pessimist wants to think that San Leon would be like Kemah and coastal Seabrook, which had some flooding from the storm surge. They were talking about maybe 8 feet in Kemah so it depends on how high your place is.

The bad news for everybody: If you look out the windows from the 6th floor of Boeing Tower II, you can see about one-third of our nation's gasoline manufacturing facilities. All those places are without power and shut down, and it might be a week or so before they are all back up and running. Gasoline supplies might be a bit tight all over until they get caught up.