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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lou" data-source="post: 4465511" data-attributes="member: 51567">Just to give you an idea of what's going on in the Houston area: Tonight in <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Kingwood+TX&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7ADBF&um=1&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=image" target="_blank">Kingwood, Texas</a>, there are two service stations with no gasoline but lines around the block.... They have beer. And it's cold! There is a broad stretch of suburban homes in that area generally north of downtown Houston that will not get power back for as much as 4 weeks. Their electrical distribution subsystems were utterly destroyed by Hurricane Ike. The substations will have to be built elsewhere and trucked in. The power lines will have to be restrung among those substations. If you look at the maps, remember that the broad eye of Hurricane Ike passed over Galveston then north just to the east of downtown Houston with the east edge at Baytown to Spring and Conroe before heading on north of the Houston area.  Hurricane force winds extended to the west as far as about Tomball.</blockquote>