I was wondering why the grocery stores did not offer a grocery special on things they knew they would lose ?!
Answers:
I suppose that most of us that were in Hurricane Ike bought all canned items, knowing that we could buy only so many bags of ice to keep our frozen and refrigerated foods cold!. Without electricity for at least three days, ice is going to melt in the heat and humidity down South!.
We bought six bags of ice and we used every single one of them!. The city of Houston and many of its' outlying suburbs are still without power
and clean water!.
All of the stores closed early to allow their employees to go home and prepare for the Hurricane, as well!. Frozen food items that you have shown would have spoiled on us too, and the stores probably couldn't have given frozen food away, considering that many people and stores are still without electricity!. I believe that many stores probably did have fairly good discounts on many of the products that they knew people were really going to need the most!. And fortunately, the Governor of Texas mandated that no stores could raise their prices!. This is what tends to hurt people the most after a hurricane!.!.!.raising the price of gasoline, food items and basic necessities!. When you have over 5!.5 million people in Houston and its surrounding suburbs, the stores run out of stock pretty quickly, especially when people are buying things they need in large quantities!.
We were lucky because we had to go without electricity for only three days and all of our ice was melted but still cool!. Our power went out Friday at 10:00 pm and came back on Monday around noon!. But there are still millions of people less than 5 miles away that don't have any power at all and a few lucky ones are running on generators!.
The wait for ice, milk, yogurt, eggs and any frozen or refrigerated foods for those that do have their electricity back on is roughly about four hours of standing in line!. The day after Hurricane Ike made landfall in our area, my mother-in-law was asking my husband to take her back home because where she lives, they received very little damage and they didn't lose their electricity during the entire Hurricane!.
In lots of other places, many roads are impassable!. And most of us in this suburban area sustained damage from large trees that fell or broke
in half!. All of us on this street are going to need new roofs, new fences,
and some will also need new carpet and furniture!. Depending on what area you live in and what condition your house was in to begin with will determine just how much FEMA assistance will be needed for some of the unluckier people!. Some people lost everything they had!. But like I said we were very lucky compared to people in other parts of the area!.
All of our students are out of school for two weeks here because of the amount of rain damage that was done!. Our son goes to a new high school and it suffered a lot of damage (it is only about four years old and they are building on to the school every single year so they can
accommodate even more students)!. Right now, enrollment is a little above 3,000 and the high school is maxed out to capacity!. When this school was built, no one could possibly anticipate just how many kids would be going to this high school!. Some of the kids are transplanted from our older high schools and some are new residents to Texas!.
Across a baseball field and holding pond (basically what our back yard
over looks) is an Elementary school and an Intermediate school just
a couple of football fields lengths apart!. They, too, are going to have to rebuild large portions of these two schools that received the most rain damage!. And both schools are less than fifteen years old, kept up very nicely, and yet still it wasn't enough to keep from damaging the roofs and gymnasiums!. At least they are still standing!!
We live 40 miles northeast from Galveston and we didn't suffer nearly as much damage as many of the other towns did that are much closer to a large body of water!. Winnie, Bridge City and all the towns that are shown on that map are all closer to the Gulf of Mexico, so of course, the closer you were to the Gulf of Mexico, the more you stood to lose!.
Another key factor is that all of these towns shown are towns that you have to pass through in order to get to Louisiana, which is a huge body
of water and marshland!.
Galveston was demolished but it still wasn't as bad as the Hurricane of 1900 that killed so many people!. At least most of the people that lived in Galveston were told to evacuate this time!. Now with the advanced weather radar systems we have, the weather men and women knew exactly what we were in for this time around!.
Thank you for your concern!. We really appreciate it!. Www@FoodAQ@Com
We bought six bags of ice and we used every single one of them!. The city of Houston and many of its' outlying suburbs are still without power
and clean water!.
All of the stores closed early to allow their employees to go home and prepare for the Hurricane, as well!. Frozen food items that you have shown would have spoiled on us too, and the stores probably couldn't have given frozen food away, considering that many people and stores are still without electricity!. I believe that many stores probably did have fairly good discounts on many of the products that they knew people were really going to need the most!. And fortunately, the Governor of Texas mandated that no stores could raise their prices!. This is what tends to hurt people the most after a hurricane!.!.!.raising the price of gasoline, food items and basic necessities!. When you have over 5!.5 million people in Houston and its surrounding suburbs, the stores run out of stock pretty quickly, especially when people are buying things they need in large quantities!.
We were lucky because we had to go without electricity for only three days and all of our ice was melted but still cool!. Our power went out Friday at 10:00 pm and came back on Monday around noon!. But there are still millions of people less than 5 miles away that don't have any power at all and a few lucky ones are running on generators!.
The wait for ice, milk, yogurt, eggs and any frozen or refrigerated foods for those that do have their electricity back on is roughly about four hours of standing in line!. The day after Hurricane Ike made landfall in our area, my mother-in-law was asking my husband to take her back home because where she lives, they received very little damage and they didn't lose their electricity during the entire Hurricane!.
In lots of other places, many roads are impassable!. And most of us in this suburban area sustained damage from large trees that fell or broke
in half!. All of us on this street are going to need new roofs, new fences,
and some will also need new carpet and furniture!. Depending on what area you live in and what condition your house was in to begin with will determine just how much FEMA assistance will be needed for some of the unluckier people!. Some people lost everything they had!. But like I said we were very lucky compared to people in other parts of the area!.
All of our students are out of school for two weeks here because of the amount of rain damage that was done!. Our son goes to a new high school and it suffered a lot of damage (it is only about four years old and they are building on to the school every single year so they can
accommodate even more students)!. Right now, enrollment is a little above 3,000 and the high school is maxed out to capacity!. When this school was built, no one could possibly anticipate just how many kids would be going to this high school!. Some of the kids are transplanted from our older high schools and some are new residents to Texas!.
Across a baseball field and holding pond (basically what our back yard
over looks) is an Elementary school and an Intermediate school just
a couple of football fields lengths apart!. They, too, are going to have to rebuild large portions of these two schools that received the most rain damage!. And both schools are less than fifteen years old, kept up very nicely, and yet still it wasn't enough to keep from damaging the roofs and gymnasiums!. At least they are still standing!!
We live 40 miles northeast from Galveston and we didn't suffer nearly as much damage as many of the other towns did that are much closer to a large body of water!. Winnie, Bridge City and all the towns that are shown on that map are all closer to the Gulf of Mexico, so of course, the closer you were to the Gulf of Mexico, the more you stood to lose!.
Another key factor is that all of these towns shown are towns that you have to pass through in order to get to Louisiana, which is a huge body
of water and marshland!.
Galveston was demolished but it still wasn't as bad as the Hurricane of 1900 that killed so many people!. At least most of the people that lived in Galveston were told to evacuate this time!. Now with the advanced weather radar systems we have, the weather men and women knew exactly what we were in for this time around!.
Thank you for your concern!. We really appreciate it!. Www@FoodAQ@Com
No one in the area had power for refrigeration or cooking!. Why should they waste their money when the store could just write it off!?Www@FoodAQ@Com