[jjwood]

We're in the Woodlands. Got power last night (finally). Still many downed trees all over, but most of the main streets have been cleared. Our big adventure occurred two nights ago while in a gas line on a very dark fwy feeder street. My Infinity just died, no warning, no nuthin. Transmission LOCKS in Park and can't remove key from ignition! Trying to read the Owner's Manual in the dark! And the cop sends a message via one of the wreckers, he wants me to move the vehicle to a parking lot before we try and jump cuz we'd block traffic (we're doing a good job of that already)! In his defense he later became as helpful as he could. But cops and wreckers aren't carrying jumper cables anymore cuz of all their electronics so no help there. Finally a good Samaratin braved the traffic and tried to jump, but no luck. An hour later our AAA wrecker rolled in (now 11:30PM and pretty dark) and he couldn't jump it either. Finally made it home aboard the rollback wrecker around midnight. The damn thing was ... it's my birthday! BTW got a few nice Porsche-based presents -- a cool LeMans Movie 917 print with all the drivers signatures who worked in the movie LeMans (Chad McQueen signed for his Dad), plus a couple of 1:18 models ---> a 908/3 and the 917 "Hippie". Two beautiful models well worth the adventure.

Hope everyone is starting the recovery process. Sounds like Tom gets the prize for best story. Hey Tom, I'm saving those tires for you!