Comcast has outage maps for nodes in Harris county. This link is for pc/laptops only. http://www.comcast.com/Corporate/Customers/houston.html Comcast will provide credit for Hurricane Ike outage. It's probably best to wait until you get online, so you won't have to call back every day for another credit. It's in the chron's blog. http://blogs.chron.com/hurricanes/2008/09/comcast_tells_customers_to_cal.html