[Marilyn]

Hope your power is now restored!!! Enough is enough!!!!

There are how many million people living in Houston now??? Whenever we go there we can't get over the urban sprawl. There are so many suburbs now that city, the big Houston metroplex, is about 100 miles (N to S) x 100 miles (E to W). City begins well before you reach the Houston city limits in all directions. There are huge subdivisions, apartment complexes, shopping centers, car dealerships all over what used to be fields and pastures. Cities outside of Houston have built-up and all the land inbetween them so that it's just one huge mass of buildings and concrete, now. Lots of people have moved down from the north for the climate, lower cost of living and also their jobs.

Sandy may be near the coast, but she has lots and lots of company!!