Pearland is pretty dark tonight so Neal may be without power. My house is dark too, over on the west end of Pearland so my wife & I have bunkered down at the TV station where I work for another night.
Power lines are down all over town. Over 2 million people are still without power. Interchanges on the freeways and Interstates are flooded. No stores are open, except for a few gas stations running on generators. Downtown Houston is looks like Bagdad on the Bayou.
I went out to the transmitter tower last night when our generator failed. Winds were up past 70 MPH when I abandoned the mission and came back to the station. (70 on the ground is probably around 100 up at 2000 ft. where our antenna is.) Back at the station we later had 112 MPH sustained winds when they clocked around to the west as the eye went past, driving water right through the weep holes in the brick and into the offices.
One of my guys is still on the island (Galveston) running our satellite truck. He says that it will be a day or two before the water goes down enough to clear the roads so they can come home.
Most of our out of town'ers have left for home. We had people here in the station from our Dallas station and our New Orleans station to help us cover the storm.
Bob Chase
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