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Finally got power back to my house in Nederland today. Still no internet service in Nederland, I'm connected at my office in Beaumont which has a restoration team here drying it out since the roof came off. We have power and net working here.

Spent yesterday in Bridge City with many relatives. It's a war zone. Actually used a chain saw in my sisters house to remove furniture and fixtures.

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More than 800,000 customers remain in the dark

Power companies continued to whittle down the number of outages across the region today, with the number of customers in the dark going below 1 million for the first time since Hurricane Ike passed through the area Sept. 13

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More than 800,000 customers remain in the dark

Power companies continued to whittle down the number of outages across the region today, with the number of customers in the dark going below 1 million for the first time since Hurricane Ike passed through the area Sept. 13

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I'll bet that most of the Golden Triangle is up and running with a few small and widely scattered outages left.

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If you can't get the rotten smell out of your fridge or freezer, despite cleaning with bleach and everything else, try coffee grounds.

Our fridge smelled like a garbage dump, so I put some coffee grounds in a cup (a bowl would be better, I'm sure) and the smell vanished in no time!

Baking soda just wasn't doing the job.  LOL

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If you can't get the rotten smell out of your fridge or freezer, despite cleaning with bleach and everything else, try coffee grounds.

Our fridge smelled like a garbage dump, so I put some coffee grounds in a cup (a bowl would be better, I'm sure) and the smell vanished in no time!

Baking soda just wasn't doing the job.  LOL

Also try a bowl of vinegar.

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Man Desperately Seeking Brother Who Made Final Call to Wife During Hurricane

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September 23, 2008 - 7:59PM

Scott Lawrence

A Nederland man is searching for his brother, who was trapped by rising water and made a frantic 9-1-1 call when Hurricane Ike had reached its peak intensity.

Greg Walker, 41, was returning home to Port Neches on Friday, September 12 after taking his wife and children to Louisiana to get away from the approaching hurricane.

Rising water trapped Greg in his truck about one mile north of Bridge City.

He called 9-1-1 at about 2:30 in the morning on Saturday, September 13.

An emergency operator gave him lifesaving information, including an explanation of how to use cushions from his truck to float.

The operator told Greg to call his wife. He called her but the line went dead during the conversation.

"He was my bubba," said Kevin Walker, Greg's brother. "He loved to hunt and fish. He loved his kids and all the family. You know, that was the last thing that he did.  9-1-1 got him to hang up and call his wife back, and that's when they lost contact."

Searchers found the truck last Tuesday - but no sign of Greg. The windows had been broken out, giving his family some hope Greg might have been able to escape and was later taken to a hospital or evacuation center.

Law enforcement officers confirm they're looking for Walker and focusing on the area where he was last seen near Bridge City.

Greg is married with three children.

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Body of Ike Drowning Victim Found in Chambers County

ANAHUAC, Texas - Chambers County Sheriff Joe LaRive Wednesday began the sixth day of what he says will be a multi-day search of debris fields left by Hurricane Ike across the southern portion of the county. His Department has been working in conjunction with Texas Parks and Wildlife, Port Arthur Police K-9 Units, US Fish and Wildlife and handlers from the all-volunteer Greater Houston Search Dogs.

  The search Sunday and Monday, conducted with dogs trained to find human remains, did not uncover any storm victims.  However, Tuesday afternoon, members of the US Fish and Wildlife Department discovered the body of a white female, located in a debris field east of FM 562, between Lone Oak Bayou and Lake Surprise, north of the Moody Wildlife Refuge in Southern Chambers County.  The victim, clad only in a bra, is described as a white female in her late 40's to early 50's, 5'6", medium build, with short brown hair and blonde to grey hi-lites.  Preliminary autopsy results from the Jefferson County Medical Examiner's Office showed that the female showed signs of dental work, including fillings and caps. She also had a scar from a hysterectomy.  It appears that the cause of death was due to drowning, as there were no broken bones or head trauma.   

Last Thursday, Officials conducted air searches for possible victims and plotted debris fields.  Friday, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game wardens marked 44 major debris piles, and game wardens, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuge officers and Sheriff's Deputies accompanied handlers from the all-volunteer Greater Houston Search Dogs and K-9 units from the Port Arthur Police Department began ground searches.

"At this time it is very difficult to know just how many people really are missing from the Bolivar Peninsula after the storm, or if there are remains in these debris fields, but if there are, then we want to make sure we find them," said LaRive. "We do know that much of what was at Gilchrist and Crystal Beach before the storm is now five or six miles inland in Chambers County."

Sheriff LaRive also reported that there was one storm-related fatality in Chambers County in the days before the storm. Anahuac resident, 52 year old Gary Schweinle was electrocuted on September 12, 2008 as he attempted to secure his roof before Hurricane Ike struck.

Since Friday, searchers have fought through high water, knee-deep mud, alligators, snakes and swarms of mosquitoes to comb through piles of nail-studded lumber, appliances, household goods and trash washed ashore by the hurricane. Overturned boats nestled in trees and waterlogged mattresses dotted the landscape. Staircases and entire walls and sections of roofs also were lodged against trees on remote ranches and refuge land.

LaRive said the search will continue until all of the marked debris fields have been searched with the aid of the dogs, a process he said could ultimately take weeks.

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I haven't heard anybody say how many people are "unaccounted for".

Gov. Perry made a very vague but disheartening statement when asked about body counts on Bolivar yesterday.  He basically said that they weren't going to release any counts until they had completely searched the area, but that totals were below other "historical" storms.  If he's talking about the hurricane of 1900, or even Katrina, that could mean there are hundreds and hundreds of victims there.  As for Orange and BC, i've gotten very reliable info, and the deathtolls there are much lower than the rumors that have circulated, although officials continuing to deny finding anyone is crap.  I guess eventually we'll get a clearer picture of how many casualties this storm has produced.

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Those missing after Ike tally nearly 400 in four-county area

By CHRISTINE RAPPEYE

September, 25, 2008

Norma Rubin of High Island hasn't given up hope that her son, Herman "PeeWee" Thomas Moseley, will be found.

She last heard from him Sept. 12. He was still at his Gilchrist home as the storm surge from Hurricane Ike was rising.

Only a few homes remain intact in Gilchrist.

"We're still not giving up," said Rubin, 66, whose home in High Island also was destroyed by Ike.

Moseley is one of dozens of Bolivar Peninsula residents listed as missing on the Laura Recovery Center's Web site. More than 400 people are listed on the center's Web site from Galveston, Harris, Chambers and Jefferson counties.

The center is providing assistance to help those searching for loved ones, according to a news release from Beaumont police officer and spokeswoman Crystal Holmes.

Family members and other loved ones have been calling in reports of the missing, said Terry Arnold, one of the center's founding volunteers. Those missing could have evacuated and be just fine, but they haven't gotten or aren't able to get in touch with family members. Still others might not have returned home yet.

"It's hard to know how many are missing," Arnold said.

Arnold said the center's officials are working with FEMA and the Red Cross to see if people are in shelters elsewhere.

She has had people who were on the list call in to report that they were OK. After verifying who they were, Arnold said they were taken off the list and those who reported them as missing were notified.

In Chambers County, the seven-day search through the Hurricane Ike debris turned up the body of an unidentified white woman Tuesday.

"We've had calls already from people missing friends or loved ones since the storm," Sheriff Joe LaRive said Wednesday by phone.

LaRive is asking for the public's help in identifying the woman, described as in her late 40s or early 50s, 5 feet 6 inches tall, with short brown hair with blond to grey highlights. She has a scar from a hysterectomy and has had dental work, including fillings and caps.

The Chambers County search process is slow and exact, with debris fields mapped out and people and dogs looking through each one. The entire process, searching through 44 major debris sites with the aid of trained search dogs, could take weeks.

The debris includes everything from refrigerators and staircases to boats and entire walls, according to a news release from LaRive.

"We do know that much of what was at Gilchrist and Crystal Beach before the storm is now five or six miles inland in Chambers County," LaRive said in the release.

Searchers have slogged through high water, knee-deep mud and piles of debris and trash.

"It's been a tough deal with the remote areas," LaRive said Wednesday. "You're looking at deep mud, alligators, snakes ⦠and the worst of it is the mosquitoes."

Officials are mapping the locations where people were rescued as well as where any remains are found. The idea is to match up where people are rescued or bodies found with their original locations in hope that the information will help searchers know where to look for others who might be missing from the same area, LaRive said.

"We're still out there," LaRive said. "We still don't have a definite count of how many people are missing from Galveston County."

Every resident in Chambers County has been accounted for, LaRive said.

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To contact the Laura Recovery Center, call (866) 898-5723 or (281) 482-5723

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