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Hurricane Ike-a week later in Houston
This will be my last daily update on Hurricane Ike as it relates primarily Houston and Galveston. There is Of course, another 27 counties declared a disaster area and each city or county has a story to tell. A week after the lights began to go out, Center Point Energy reports that there are still 56% of their customers without power: Entergy has 60% and 40% TNMP. It's a lot of misery.
While some people are Just trying to find drinking water and ice, and some are worried about their wine collections, especially with the temperature begins to rise. Everyone has a burden to bear! 
With rain possible this weekend and claims with no end, questions begin to be asked that have legal implications. Such questions as, "The remediation service my insurance company wants me to use to prevent mildew damage to my wet house is overbooked and dismissive, and even if they could get out of my home has no jurisdiction to run their equipment. Should I start tearing the walls out myself or insurer will cover any damage caused by allowing the house to remain wet? This was not flood damage, it had been damaged. "
What you can do and what not you?
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Despite around-the-clock efforts to clear debris, repair roofs and dry campuses soaked by Hurricane Ike, power outages are expected to hold several school systems, including Houston's, from reopening Monday, officials said today. School leaders said they want to restart classes as soon as possible so children can resume their normal routines. HISD Currently only 106 of their 300 campuses ready to go.
The total number of them are the victims of Hurricane Ike in or from the Houston area now stands at 23, authorities said Wednesday. Eight died in Harris County are blamed on fumes from generators, falling branches and house fires where candles were used. Meanwhile, deaths in Galveston in the storm remain at six, authorities said. Eight others in surrounding counties died while cleaning up debris, and a woman were killed when a tree fell on her home. Another Ike death, a Houston small child who fled to Dallas with his family, were hit and killed in a car park.
The final cost by Hurricane Ike is off the charts. Estimates vary from $ 10 – $ 20 billion.
It would literally take weeks and months the nation's fourth largest city to get back to some sort of normality, and for other things will never re again when they were 11 September 2008, the day before Ike began pounding Texas coast.
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As a spiritual-futurist, I interpret current events in light of possible macro-universal forces at play leading up to 2012, but not limited to it.
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