No Water, No Electricity

Hurricane Ike felled three giant oaks in my 80-year-old uncle's yard. One oak punched a hole in his roof, right over his bedroom. With the wind blowing 50-70 knots and the rain falling, he climbed on the roof, cut the limb off the tree trunk, pushed the limb off the roof, and secured plastic over the hole. He let no one know he was having difficulty. When he couldn't be reached by phone, I drove out to his place. He had no electricity, two full one-liter water bottles , a gallon jug of potable water, and a barrel of water for flushing the commode. His meat, milk, and other refrigerated food were spoiled. He and his 85-year-old wife refused to come home with me. They will be out of electricity for a week or more, probably.