{"id":4446,"date":"2008-09-15T10:28:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T17:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=4446"},"modified":"2008-09-15T10:28:46","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T17:28:46","slug":"tom-johnson-reports-on-hurricane-clean-up-efforts-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/4446\/tom-johnson-reports-on-hurricane-clean-up-efforts-in-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Johnson reports on hurricane clean-up efforts in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our good friend Tom Johnson in Houston<\/a> by email:<\/p>\n

Minor house damage to report, nothing that lets the weather in. We are one of about ten homes with power in our neighborhood (100homes). We were on the clean side of the storm, about 80 miles away from the hard hit part of Houston. We are very fortunate.<\/p>\n

Watch the clean-up of the 4th largest US city. I have a feeling it will astound. The false alarm from Rita gave public officials around here a dress rehearsal on how to screw up, and I think they have a pretty good handle on what is required. There have been some FEMA issues but it was kind of funny. Yesterday FEMA informed the State that they weren’t able to move the relief commodities from Reliant Stadium to the Points of Distribution. The state, probably correctly, is focused on the coast and was unable to shift the National Guard to the PoDs. The Mayor and County Comm. just told the State to get out of the way. Apparently they had established some kind of volunteer corps for this type of eventuality. The state handed off permission to talk to FEMA to local authorities, and once the local to FEMA direct billing was verified with Chertoff, the trucks were rolling to the PoDs last night. They are fully stocked this AM and have restocking in place so there will be very little running out. The logistics of the relief effort are fascinating to me. It is totally devastating to a citizen to sit in line for what will be hours in the early days to be told we just ran out, so, keeping the supplies coming is as important as the initial relief effort.<\/p>\n

All taxpayer paid workers were expected to be at work today. As the mayor said: This is going to be the largest garbage pick up in history.<\/p>\n

I’ll have more as it processes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I expect the Houston Red Cross would be happy to hear from you<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our good friend Tom Johnson in Houston by email: Minor house damage to report, nothing that lets the weather in. We are one of about ten homes with power in our neighborhood (100homes). We were on the clean side of the storm, about 80 miles away from the hard hit part of Houston. 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