Ike is heading for the Gulf of Mexico

[D H]

The exterior of our office building is finally being repaired! Ike ripped all of the bricks off a 20 foot wide, six story tall swath of a corner of the building. The building inspector declared that entire corner as unsafe from top to bottom. (Ike also filled the building with two or three feet of water; the entire building was deemed unsafe for a month.)

A lot of my neighbors have now nice new roofs, nice new fences. We were lucky, with damages of only a thousand dollars or so -- less than my deductible. At least I got a tax deduction out of it.

 

[Brilliant!]

Awesome! I live in Houston and stayed during the hurricane. It was a pretty incredible event to go through. But what is almost as incredible is how long it's taking insurance companies to take care of their customers. Everywhere around town, whether it's a 40-story office building, or 2-bedroom house, you can still spot tarps on roofs and boards in windows. It's ridiculous.