Seeing Houston dark is hard to imagine under any circumstances, and seeing that everything but the downtown area had gone completely black the night following the hurricane was positively post-apocalyptic, the kind of thing that one would notice after a zombie outbreak or a nuclear exchange. So yeah, it has not quite escalated to the point where the city has all gone Mad Max/Road Warrior and started killing each other for gasoline, but honestly it is pretty damn close. We have seen a number of gas stations where cops were present or had obviously been called in to keep rioting from breaking out. The city of Houston proper has been trying to enforce a 9pm curfew too. HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Which is a joke, needless to say. Way to stretch your police force even thinner dumbasses. Houston does not have the manpower to try to be a police city-state. The CVS down the street was looted the first night. One lady called in to the radio station, apparently looters had stolen everything from her house not even leaving the bag of sugar in her pantry. So yeah, fuck Houston anyway.

Of course the day after the hurricane authorities were whining about how everyone should just stay inside, so when Katy called her mom to tell her we were driving over to visit, the conversation went something like this:

Katy: My mom says that they are saying on the radio that everyone should stay inside.
me: Yeah, that rule does not apply to anarchists...
Katy: With a truck!
me: Exactly!

I love my wife. So, yeah we drove over, and had a nice BBQ with Katy's mom and my family -- charcoal for the win.

Just to update all of you, the wife, baby, and myself are doing great, in fact baby Éowyn slept through the entire hurricane. Haha! Apparently she is as fearless as her namesake. Currently we do not have power at our apartment (again, it had been restored but this morning the transformer blew,) so I am emailing you from Katy's mom's house, which had electricity/internet restored yesterday. If you need to get in touch with me the best way is through text messaging, since cell phone service is still spotty at best, and the gods only know when electricity and internet will be restored to our place.

For those of you in affected areas, I hope you are all safe and well. And if you need help battling looters, just let me know -- I am bored as hell!