Despite a lack of power in Port Lavaca, Gary Weaver had reopened his small grocery by early afternoon, accepting only cash and totaling bills on the back of scrap paper.
"This building is solid concrete, reinforced with I-beams," Weaver said of the relatively undamaged business, which his father started in 1959. "And the beer cooler is like a building within a building, so if things really get bad we can get in there with some Vienna sausages and ride it out."
Add some Yoo-hoo and Moon Pies and make it a party!