...of OTHER people complaining about elected officials and/or their post-Ike “decisions” (I still reserve the right to complain about them). If you don’t like their decisions, run for office as I think some of these offices are up for re-election about every other year. I read in this newspaper last week that some thought school district and county officials should have announced that we should cancel this local holiday to work on Ike problems. I’m glad the county and school districts didn’t disrupt the Fort Bend County Fair Day holiday.

County officials and employees are not connecting electrical power grids and I don’t think they are picking up the debris either. I think the cities and/or county have contracted that out to a company that did not take the FBC Fair Day holiday.

I am so glad that the schools and/or county did not use Ike as another excuse to disrupt planned events. In fact, I’ll bet that some county employees were working that day - either at home or taking care of some piddle thing at their county office, such as taking care of “backed-up” work that they can’t get done when their county office is open for business. And the rest of the business world was open that day, so some things could get done that maybe couldn’t get done on the weekend.

After three or four days without electricity at my home, I was still ready to “get back to normal.” After seven days, we still had the Shrimp Fest (and I bet the debris-contractors were still picking up debris that day). I bet that school holiday may have been used by some in those districts to work on something on their campuses (or have contractors that only work weekdays).

Thank God for ALL the elected officials doing their job. I didn’t have to worry about much because they were making decisions and trying to get everything back to normal as soon as possible.

You know, I think our county leaders took this occasion to LEAD. They didn’t go crying to students, parents, county employees, etc. They said ‘what’s the problem’ it’s a planned holiday, and it’s been TWO weeks since Ike.’

In fact, I think some of the people I heard complaining on the radio and TV about PODs and response times had a lot of nerve. Aren’t you suppose to take care of yourself for the first 72 hours? I’m still mad at MYSELF for not freezing as many one gallon jugs of water to use for ice.