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Saturday, August 23, 2008

Besides working to restore the area where I work, I seem to be having some technical problems with my computer and have had to use the libraries computer. I will post as soon as possible the events happening or had happened.

20 comments:

Anonymous said...: Great, looking forward to hearing about life on LIV during and after the storm, especially the days afterward with no electricity. And water was supposed to be boiled, but with no electricity, how? What about sewage? How did lift sations work without electricity?; Jul 29, 2008, 9:02:00 AM
Anonymous said...: Aramark sent 3 new generators from Houston which I understand will remain in the Village. They also sent a 5 day supply of food in a
Sysco refrigerated truck.We did not have to boil our water as the manager said we had filters on the
water system.It was suggested we have a meeting everyday for an update and we met in the Pavillion.
On Sunday the manager said after we
started pumping our sewerage, the
Laguna Madre Water Dept. shut off
our pumping. The manager and a
Board Member went over and told them we were taxpayers and had as much right to pump as Port Isabel.
They opened our sewer again as they
kept pumping.; Jul 30, 2008, 8:58:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Hey, that's great news about the food and the generators...but, didn't the hurricane plan already provide for having a generator, and fuel for it, and also having food on hand, and dry ice to keep it cool? And why would LMWD cut off the pumping of sewage from LIV, one of it's largest customers? Something doesn't sound right about this?; Jul 31, 2008, 7:25:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Filters on the water system? Where exactly are these water filters? Extremely unlikely that we are filtering the entire water supply for LIV. Maybe the cafe has filtered water, and some individual units, but the entire Village? NO WAY!; Jul 31, 2008, 10:34:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Re: we were taxpayers and had as much right to pump as Port Isabel.

Hey, the entire city of Port Isabel collectively is not a customer of LMWD, rather each individual residence and business is a customer of LMWD. LIV collectively is a customer of LMWD, making it one of the largest, if not the largest customer of LMWD, ie LMWD provides ONE invoice to LIV, not an invoice to each individual lot owner in LIV. Why would LMWD try to prevent one of its largest customers from having sewer service? Don't make sense...need to elect some better LMWD officals!; Jul 31, 2008, 10:55:00 PM
Anonymous said...: There's probably more to the LMWD saga.I'm sure the water district did not just shut the pumping down only to have the manager of LIV and the mystery Board member save the day and force them to resume the pumping. Right. Anyone believe that story??; Aug 1, 2008, 8:59:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Oh great blog master it wil be wonderful when you again be up and running and tell us all the news.

You have done a wonderful job and we all miss you.; Aug 4, 2008, 4:45:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Any answers on some of these questions:

1. Someone here commented: "We did not have to boil our water as the manager said we had filters on the
water system."

Exactly HOW is the entire LIV water system filtered? Please don't tell me that LIV residents drank and used potentially hazardous and unhealthy water based on this (mis)information!

2. Was the latest Hurricane plan that was presented to the board, actually implemented in whole or in part. If not wholly, then which parts were, and which parts were not? And, why not?

3. How is it that residents would end up stranded on the island, given the Hurricane Evacuation plan?

4. Didn't the Hurricane plan provide for emergency power generation and food supplies?; Aug 4, 2008, 8:22:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Question #1: during the first group meal at Larry's diner, our general manager was asked if the water that our ice maker was using was safe? His response was that it had a filter and was completely safe. I would bet my last dollar that no one would have a clue when that filter was last changed or cleaned.; Aug 4, 2008, 9:47:00 PM
Anonymous said...: The filtration system in the cafe is (or was last I knew) a very high quality water filtration system, so if this filtered water comment from the manager was referring to the restaurant's water filtration system which of course would include the ice makers, then it's probably an accurate and reliable comment. Carry on!; Aug 4, 2008, 9:57:00 PM
spa day said...: Howdy!

Andrea, Michael, Sarah and I returned to South Padre Sandbar Thursday after being gone for a week due to some windbag named Dolly. We rode out the storm for a couple of days at Andrea's grandma's house in McAllen, but when it became clear there would be no power (i.e. no air conditioning, no cooking & no Disney movies) for a week we went up to her folks' place in northeast Texas.

On the drive back just north of Harlingen we could see where Dolly's eye (she was a cyclops ya know) had roared through. All the trees and signs and buildings were blown over from East to West and then a quarter of a mile later everything was blown down from West to East. We saw lots of debris, sign/billboard damage, roofs missing, and giant piles of dead trees and/or limbs every hundred feet through Harlingen, San Benito and Los Fresnos.

The damage got worse as we got closer - through Laguna Vi sta, Laguna Heights and Port Isabel - a whole lot more of the same. Coming over the bridge we could see Tequila Frogs to the left at the south end of Laguna. The entire building had been pushed back from the bay and slanted at a 45 degree angle to the south. We also saw lots of electric company trucks with their cranes in the air especially from MacDonald's south. Nobody had power on the south end of the Island yet or further up along the bay side.

There are piles of debris everywhere. There are fences down everywhere. There are giant trailers to put the debris in everywhere. There are roof shingles and pieces of siding and other parts of buildings and lots of fences and poles and all sorts of clothing including shoes everywhere from the yards to the dunes and all along every street. AND THERE ARE BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF MOSQUITOS!

On top of all the structural damage, every restaurant lost ALL there food, and MOLD is already a huge problem as the sun has been beating down with 90 degree heat on every waterlogged building with no electricity to cool things off since the day after the hurricane.

Just about every house, condo, apartment, motel, hotel, restaurant, business sustained some kind of damage - some much worse than others. We were fortunate to have had just one minor leak due to roof damage. D'Pizza Joint had a few leaks (not over my piano) and a fence in the back broke one of the kitchen windows which is where a lot of rain came in and eventually soaked much of the carpet.

I saw some roof damage at SAIDA 1 & 2 and the Royale.

The Convention Center lost an entire wall and sustained a million dollars worth of damage alone.

The Radisson will be closed for 3 months. It lost its roof and consequently the entire top floor was destroyed and several below all the way down to the main ballroom which was a wreck.

Bahia Mar has a huge 2 story whole in the side of the pink tower about 6 floors up and the lobby, front desk and offices as well as several other rooms were trashed - it will be closed for 9 months.

And the Holiday Inn Resort next to Schlitterbaun is beyond repair and will be torn down completely.

D'Pizza Joint and Louie's are reopening tonight (Friday, August 1) and there will be fireworks over the bay - Yippee.

Happy August!
Mike
(Your Friendly Neighborhood Piano Man); Aug 5, 2008, 11:11:00 AM
Anonymous said...: Mike, thanks for this very comprehensive damage report! Very helpful for us out-of-towners!; Aug 5, 2008, 9:36:00 PM
Unknown said...: Judy Voss

NO COMPUTER IN LIV'S LIBRARY!!!

Joey must have referred to Port Isabel's library.

A question was asked;why would
"Judy" let Joey use the computer to write his blog. I would not have any control over what anyone did on a computer if we had one.

I donated the old one we had to Good Will in Brownsville back in February 2008.; Aug 6, 2008, 10:00:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Hey, Joey - Get a Mac and you won't have all these problems!; Aug 13, 2008, 11:18:00 PM
Anonymous said...: What I am going to suggest to the board is another committee . One to be formed to inspect the park.

Building to building street to street corner to corner.It doesn't matter what it is. Take a camera take some pictures place them on a tripod bulletin board in the meetings for all to see. Change that name BEAUTIFACATION Committee To the What's Up With That Committee. The WUWTC.

A hole in a wall molded ceiling palm trees to be cut, loose tile ,dirty bathrooms.
Not only negative things there has to be positive input also Laborers doing their work ,cleaning people cleaning, pool people cleaning the pool..
The committee will report ever month. I know we have a suggestion box. We can have that also. I know we have Armondo we can have him still. And I know we have Larry. Yes we have Larry.
And the Welcome Center ..do a pop in once in awhile take some pictures of the welcomer welcoming!

What we will have is proof for all to see. We all have eyes and we see different things.
Let there be a verbal report every month for all to see and hear.
Sort of like the neighbor watch.

We have lots of committees in our park all doing good things keeping people happy and entertained. Judging different affairs. Even a independent committee to see how we spend our money Its our park its our home.. Lets take it one step further. Lets watch the watchers and have a report. Let us all get involved. Do we have to ask the boards perrmission?; Aug 15, 2008, 9:12:00 AM
Anonymous said...: Surely you jest!; Aug 15, 2008, 11:02:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Why not? We already have Berry Pools, Gino, Les, and now this new guy from Aramark to do Larry's and Armondo's job, why not a few more people to help them out?; Aug 16, 2008, 6:55:00 AM
Anonymous said...: In what way are you using the word
" JEST" ?

as a idiom? OR ....; Aug 16, 2008, 8:10:00 AM
Anonymous said...: You've got that right. Don't forget Mrs. Larry.; Aug 16, 2008, 8:55:00 AM
Anonymous said...: Jest as in humor or mockery...
Just imagine the Coffee w/directors and the BOD meetings if we had 'Watchers to watch the Watchers'. We'd have to bring lunch and dinner!; Aug 16, 2008, 4:34:00 PM

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