6PM Family hurricane update.

Everything's pretty much where it was yesterday. Catherine and parent's without power, but basic food and ice are pretty easy here. No real lines. Produce and eggs aren't quite in yet, but other than that you can get pretty much anything you need now. Gas is still two hours, but that should be changing as more power comes on. The bottleneck is in powered stations, not supply.

Went to the mall with the whole crew today. (The Galleria and Memorial City both have underground powerlines, so they came back up almost immediately.) Ate crappy Sbarro pizza and walked around.

One of the images I'll remember of this hurricane is all the people gathered around the mall's kiosk power outlets with their mobile phones and computers plugged in so that they contact relatives. With the power out, everybody's in their laundry day clothes everywhere you go.

Anyhow, things are better than expected for us, but once again, down south people are living a very different experience.