Tuesday, 27-Sep-05, 0900 hours
Electric power has remained stable. Cable Internet had an extended outage yesterday, probably due to repairs being made to the distribution infrastructure, much of which consists of poles along roads and streets. As far as we know our T1 line suffered no outages at any time during the emergency. Fuel is more widely available and businesses are reopening. We hope that all our staff will have returned to Houston by the end of today. Our operations should return to normal by Thursday.
Monday, 26-Sep-05, 0730 hours
Electric power has stablized and our computer facilities are up and running. Most of our people are still outside Houston. Fuel is still scarce and businesses are still mostly closed. Authorities are advising people who evacuated the Houston area not to return immediately. Our businesses will not return to normal until after a few days.
Sunday, 25-Sep-05, 0730 hours
Most of the staffs of TransVirtual Systems, Lightspeed NVS and The Unofficial Wang VS Information Center evacuated from Houston on or before Thursday, Sep 22. They will be returning Monday and Tuesday, Sep 26 and 27. It may be a few days before operations are back to normal.
Our Houston facilities are northwest of Houston, slightly outside the city line:
(click map to see larger version)We experienced gusty winds and light, intermittent rain but no damage per se. Numerous brief power interruptions occurred and two principal locations where servers are operated experienced extended power outages, one for about 12 hours and the other for about an hour. Some minor equipment difficulties were experienced bringing the networks and servers back on line.
Saturday, 24-Sep-05, 0250 hours
This is the last storm track we captured before losing power:
(click map to see larger version)Houston is located just under and to the left of the intersection of the 95W and 30N lines on the map.
Wednesday, 21-Sep-05, 2200 hours
This was what we faced Wednesday night. Our offices are at the location indicated by the red star:
(click map to see larger version)The storm track was predicted to pass directly over us. This is why we took Hurricane Rita very seriously.
Click here to visit the National Hurricane Center’s storm track page for Hurricane Rita.