1048 Sunset Boulevard

Galveston Pictures

October 7, 2008 | Uncategorized

I was in Galveston all week and didn’t get a chance to call Bill cause I didn’t have his number and also don’t have a cell phone. I couldn’t call from the Hotel because they charge but I was near Bill. I stayed at the Omni Hotel all week which is on Dairy Ashford and Katy Freeway. Trust me they spared no money when it came to hotels and food. We had prime rib and every other expensive food you could imagine. Nevertheless it was a long drive to Galveston every day. 2 hours with bad traffic and 1 hour on Sunday with the least traffic. We worked in the Galveston Home Depot store because they lost 80% of there employees due to the storm and it was non’stop customers. The people were great! The only rude customers I had occasionally were the contractors (believe it or not and they are the one’s making all the money). We sold out of all kinds of stuff and expecially sheetrock and lumber ( I can’t imagine why we sold so much sheetrock and lumber). I dropped my camera in a pond but mangaged to somewhat save the sim card and have a few pictures to share. Well they didn’t load. I can only say the people were really nice, mostly they had alot of water and mold damage. Galveston has always been a beautiful town to me. If bill can retrieve these photos for me I will post more. Basically there were big boats wahed up all over the side of the freeway. Not alot of major structural damage but alot of flooding. Most people got about 7 -10 feet of flooding. Most people in Galveston have houses where the downstairs serves as a basement and 1 or 2 feet came into there upstairs houses.