Thank You Ike.
Dear H-Town,
Hurricane Ike bit the big one. There wasn’t anything I could initially say that I liked about Ike. However, when the storm subsided and I was in recovery mode, there was some beautiful things that happened to me in Ike’s aftermath.
My family and I left H-Town after the hurricane as we did not have power. We headed to the home of the Alamo and stayed in a couple of local hotels for a few nights. During our stay I experienced a few acts of random kindnesses from complete strangers that truly was bright sunshine after a dark storm. I will list the top three:
The first hotel we stayed out did not allow mine and my brother-in-laws dog to stay in the hotel. They were not going to budge and were going to have us leave (not the act of kindness I am highlighting). The hotels maintenance person offered to have our dogs stay in an air conditioned security shed. He even gave us the keys so we could check on the dogs, feed them, walk them, etc. He did not ask for money and had no reason to do it except to be helpful.
The next day we switched hotels as we needed a bigger room and wanted to go to a dog-friendly hotel. We found a nice hotel a few blocks down that worked for us, but was a bit more expensive. We asked about a AAA discount, which they said they did not offer. However, the manager of the hotel gave us the “corporate” discount, which was a savings of $50 a night. We already booked the room and the manager had no reason to give us the discount as they were full.
After three days away from H-Town we decided to head home as a friend of a friend offered to lend us a generator (another random act of kindness), so I headed to the San Antonio Home Depot to big up some fans. I needed those large industrial fans as anyone who live in Houston understands. The manager who was helping me said that they only had some small fans as they sold all the larger ones to Houston shelters. I said thank you and started putting some of the small ones into my cart when the manager told me to wait a minute. After a few minutes, she returned with two large used fans that she told were the ones they use in the warehouse. She told me it was a cool day and I needed it more. She sold them to me for $20 each which was a quarter of the selling price.
The common theme of the above acts of kindnesses, which were only a highlighted few of many, was that they were all selfless. If Ike had any purpose for me, it was to remember that we are responsible for each other no matter what religion, race, gender, etc and, above that, how beautiful humanity can be. Thank you Ike.
Hurricane Ike bit the big one. There wasn’t anything I could initially say that I liked about Ike. However, when the storm subsided and I was in recovery mode, there was some beautiful things that happened to me in Ike’s aftermath.
My family and I left H-Town after the hurricane as we did not have power. We headed to the home of the Alamo and stayed in a couple of local hotels for a few nights. During our stay I experienced a few acts of random kindnesses from complete strangers that truly was bright sunshine after a dark storm. I will list the top three:
The first hotel we stayed out did not allow mine and my brother-in-laws dog to stay in the hotel. They were not going to budge and were going to have us leave (not the act of kindness I am highlighting). The hotels maintenance person offered to have our dogs stay in an air conditioned security shed. He even gave us the keys so we could check on the dogs, feed them, walk them, etc. He did not ask for money and had no reason to do it except to be helpful.
The next day we switched hotels as we needed a bigger room and wanted to go to a dog-friendly hotel. We found a nice hotel a few blocks down that worked for us, but was a bit more expensive. We asked about a AAA discount, which they said they did not offer. However, the manager of the hotel gave us the “corporate” discount, which was a savings of $50 a night. We already booked the room and the manager had no reason to give us the discount as they were full.
After three days away from H-Town we decided to head home as a friend of a friend offered to lend us a generator (another random act of kindness), so I headed to the San Antonio Home Depot to big up some fans. I needed those large industrial fans as anyone who live in Houston understands. The manager who was helping me said that they only had some small fans as they sold all the larger ones to Houston shelters. I said thank you and started putting some of the small ones into my cart when the manager told me to wait a minute. After a few minutes, she returned with two large used fans that she told were the ones they use in the warehouse. She told me it was a cool day and I needed it more. She sold them to me for $20 each which was a quarter of the selling price.
The common theme of the above acts of kindnesses, which were only a highlighted few of many, was that they were all selfless. If Ike had any purpose for me, it was to remember that we are responsible for each other no matter what religion, race, gender, etc and, above that, how beautiful humanity can be. Thank you Ike.
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