Yeah that was mind blowing. There's fucking 1000 people in this grocery store trying to check out before they close the doors at 2:30 and she's casually stopping scanning out people to talk to everyone in her line. Fucking rage.
My mom just texted me and told me she cleaned her whole house. I replied with I just took a nap. If I lost power I'd probably restart a song of ice and fire.
Pouring my first mimosa What do you guys want? I have mickey ultra, bud light, white rum, grey goose, or peach schnapps
Specs at Montrose and Westheimer is open and so is that Valero slhorn mentioned yesterday. Buddy had lunch at Aladdin's, don't know if they're going to do dinner, call ahead before driving over there. Midtown CVS looked to be open as well. Montrose isn't too bad, just lots of large puddles. Drove down toward the Federal Reserve Building and Allen Parkway looked fine right there. Cops driving around down there so I didn't get too close.
Niko Nikos is open. Mexican place near Studemont and Westheimer open Pizza place on West Gray near Marshalls is open.
I assume you're talking about Romanos. Love that place and the guys who own and run it are great, just don't get over there nearly as much as we'd like these days.
The Breakfast Klub is open #blessed Went by GRB to drop some stuff off earlier. If you plan to do so as well, I recommend you go tomorrow morning like 9 or 10. It was a really long line at 11 and by the time I left a little after 1 it had gotten way longer. Lots of us pulled into a parking lot and walked stuff over because it wasn't really moving. Really encouraging site though. Tons of volunteers sorting donations and so many people dropping off not only clothes, but lots of diapers, baby wipes, wheelchairs, etc. (the stuff they specifically asked for on the news).
nigga I might have seen you. I unloaded cars for 5 hours today. The piles of stuff they had by the end of the day blew my mind. The mountain of clothes was easily 15 ft tall
Uber is not. Don't know about lyft. And honestly I have no intentions of staying out that late tonight. Just a sad commentary on the state of man in 2017 that we have to be treated like children
My wife and I have been fortunate to have basically no hardship through all of Harvey, so we've been up there since it opened. By the time my wife left the first night, they were down to 3 bottles of water and some baby food (for kids and adults) in what started out as the people-with-pets hall. The amount of stuff we saw unloaded today is almost as hard to process as the amount of rain we got the last 5 days
I was wondering when they'd hit that point. Was thinking they might use GRB as a collection center and then distribute to other shelters. The mountains of clothes and bedding was overwhelming to look at. Real proud to be a part of Houston after the past few days.
At one point, I heard it was a 2 hr wait to drop off donations. At 6pm, it was an hour wait to be processed through volunteer orientation. Some of that is the logistics not being thought out from a 10,000 ft level, but mostly it's just a whole hell of a lot of Texans saying fuck it I'm here to help
The logistics will definitely improve and I'm sure they already have since I left this morning. The bbva move was a smart one. Watching the cars pile up on avenida de los americas was not sustainable. No one knew where to go to make drop offs. Will be interesting to see what they're doing with nrg.
Have you not seen the reports of the shit going on? People are looting. The curfew is so the police can pursue everyone after a certain time.
Yeah I get why they're doing it. And it's one of the larger natural disasters to ever occur, so if you ever have to impose a city wide curfew, now's the time. Still that people can't help but prey on the most vulnerable. And that goes for looters, insurance companies, shady contractors, imposters.
We had a family friend have a boat stolen from their front yard in the middle of the day today and then this poor old lady watched two guys just come in and take her shit, the news station showed up after. This was in a million dollar per house plus neighborhood next to the bayou.
They live in poverty on a good day and then a historic flood event gets dropped on them. No fucks given on their part. Go rob the hopefully vacant rich houses.
Both airports are opening in a limited capacity today but I'm not positive exactly what that entails. Southwest had already canceled my flight down there on Friday before this announcement http://abc13.com/travel/iah-and-hobby-airports-to-reopen-today-at-4/2347929/
I was in Vegas over the weekend for the fight. Flight back on Sunday was obviously canceled. Decided to fly to New Orleans on Sunday thinking I could drive back into town that day or stay a night in Beaumont and then drive in Monday. So spent the night in Beaumont and then saw the radar and was like holy f so then drove to Dallas. Flew to corpus yesterday to stay with family. I guess I can try to drive back on like Sunday to Midtown?