Here are some photos I took around my neighborhood I took of Hurricane Ike’s aftermath. This is still a work in progress. Now that the city is allowing us to venture outside our neighborhood, I am planning to take more pictures. There are a lot of areas hit hard here in Houston. I’ve been getting [...]
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Power is back on – I am alive and kicking. It will take a little more than a Cat 2 to keep XP down and out. I am one of the lucky ones, unlike the those who lived on the coast. From the Houston Chronicle:
I will be back on shortly, I will plan to take [...]
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Latest Update: I am ok! It was a rough ride last night, but other than that, I am ok. I like to thank CenterPoint Energy for working as quickly as they can to restore our power. I am one of the lucky ones, considering over 2 million households lost power.
Power has finally gone out! Repeat [...]
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I don’t know what to expect from Ike, the last time I went through a major hurricane was back in 1983 when Hurricane Alicia hit the Houston/Galveston area, which also was a category 3.
The city and county officials have asked us to stay in place. My fear, officials here are responding to the [...]
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As Hurricane Ike makes its way towards Texas, the Associated Press reports, emergency officials are getting ready to evacuate 1 million people from the Rio Grande Valley. However, they are running into problems convincing many immigrants to leave because they were afraid of being arrested if they board the buses.
They also fear that Immigration [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
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