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...online rumors and gossip differ from traditional water-cooler gabbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: How to Combat Gossip | 9/15/2008 | See Source »

...Currently, there are 68 high water closures on Houston roads. There's a really helpful website (www.houstontranstar.org.) that details exactly which roads are flooded. Of course, you have to have power to check it. The flooding is going to be a massive problem. Harris County has ordered a curfew from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. for the entire week. We're also hearing that parts of the Med Center are losing water pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Family's Hurricane Ike Wedding Weekend | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

...rain let up long enough yesterday afternoon for my other brother, Matt, and his new wife Holly to get married. Since my parents were the only ones in our family with power and water, they came over here for showers and lunch beforehand. My sister also showed up - looking for a shower and some air conditioning. Houston was built on a filled swamp, and it's hot and humid on the best of days in the summer. Throw in a hurricane and torrential rain storms, and it's a miserable place to be without air conditioning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Family's Hurricane Ike Wedding Weekend | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

...wedding was a candlelight ceremony, by necessity. The church was without power, and parts of it had no water. Somehow, the pastor managed to find a florist, a piano player - and a baker. We were shocked, and so grateful. It was a beautiful ceremony, if a touch bittersweet. Holly's parents, who evacuated Brazoria County ahead of Ike, couldn't get to Houston. She asked my dad to walk her down the aisle. My daughter was thrilled she got to be a flower girl as planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Family's Hurricane Ike Wedding Weekend | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

...cruise company is holding out hope that the port might be open. But looking at the pictures from the island, which people say smells like a lumber yard due to the destruction, it's hard to believe anything there will be open tomorrow. There's no phone service, no water and no power over much of the place. But I have no doubt the city will rebuild better than ever. I knew Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas when I was a beat reporter for the Galveston County Daily News. She's a tough, no-nonsense kind of woman, and from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Family's Hurricane Ike Wedding Weekend | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

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