I feel honored to have been selected to travel to Houston to help with hurricane relief in our stores. On a sad note, the Galveston store will not be reopened due to contamination and will have to be demolished and rebuilt. At the tim of this writing, 57 of Houston’s 61 store are on public power, with remaing four still on generators.
Our team left Victoria and headed to Spring, TX, which is about 15 miles north of Houston. The store was in good shape and I spent my working risers, even though that doesn’t sound like much, keep in mind that their risers hadn’t been worked in 10 days. Plus, we gave them a huge boost in IMI compliance for their risers. At this time, I’m not sure how much work awaits their tomorrow and as such we may be redeployed to a different store tomorrow afternoon.
Lunch was provided for us at the store. The store has a Cafe on the Run (read Central Market) with a huge selection and we were on an open tab courtesy if the store director. Several of noticed that the food had an excellent flavor and lacked the “burnt” taste we’d grown accustomed to at our local Spoonz cafe. Dinner was at the Cattleguard Restaraunt next to our hotel. I had my first Bison Burger! Since I have never had one before I cut off a little piece and sampled it by itself…several others did the same with items they were trying for the first time. I guess I can be a trendsetter too! We are rooming at the Crowne Plaza hotel…NICE PLACE! You’ll have to see the pictures to understand. There is a lounge complete with pool and shuffleboard, a business center (read free WIFI!), a pool, jacuzzi, restaraunt, and a Starbucks! I’m not going home! I’ll work from here forever! Too bad HEB won’t pay for that.
