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Tomball stores close for Ike
  
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Residents fill stores for last minute stock up
By ANNA SCHUMANN
As Hurricane Ike drew near to the Texas coast, Tomball community members stocked up on last minute supplies including batteries, drinking water and bread.
Stores could hardly keep supplies on the shelves to keep up with the demand.
Jeffrey Klein, store manager of Klein's Super Market, said they ordered new supply shipments to come in Friday morning including 10 palletts of water, 13 cases of batteries, a truck full of ice, and three loads of bread. He said other items customers seemed to be stocking up on were potato chips and bakery items. The batteries, he said, barely made it to the shelves before people took them.
Many local stores closed early. Kroger closed at 2 p.m. Friday and a sign on the doors simply said the store would reopen as weather and safety permit. Inside, signs limited customers to three loaves of bread per family due to limited supply.
Lowe's closed at noon. Target closed at 4 p.m. and said they hoped to reopen Saturday afternoon. Wal-Mart closed at 10 a.m. and plans to reopen Sunday at 8 a.m.; H-E-B closed at 1 p.m. and hopes to reopen Saturday at 3 p.m.
Perhaps the biggest business the day before the storm hit was outside stores. At the corner of FM 2920 and SH 249, a group was selling a generator for $1,000 out of the bed of a pick-up truck.
Andy Collicott, of Tomball, said he had bought a broken generator the day before, bought a new one and decided to sell it.
"After the storm comes through and FEMA starts buying generators, I'm selling it to them too," he said. "As soon as my power's back on."
Further down SH 249, Tamara Jones and Jamese Spears sold fresh bread out of a delivery truck. Loaves of wheat and white bread went quickly for $2 each.
"We live in Tomball and deliver in Tomball and knew they were out of bread, so we wanted to help out," said Spears.
Stores could hardly keep supplies on the shelves to keep up with the demand.
Jeffrey Klein, store manager of Klein's Super Market, said they ordered new supply shipments to come in Friday morning including 10 palletts of water, 13 cases of batteries, a truck full of ice, and three loads of bread. He said other items customers seemed to be stocking up on were potato chips and bakery items. The batteries, he said, barely made it to the shelves before people took them.
Many local stores closed early. Kroger closed at 2 p.m. Friday and a sign on the doors simply said the store would reopen as weather and safety permit. Inside, signs limited customers to three loaves of bread per family due to limited supply.
Lowe's closed at noon. Target closed at 4 p.m. and said they hoped to reopen Saturday afternoon. Wal-Mart closed at 10 a.m. and plans to reopen Sunday at 8 a.m.; H-E-B closed at 1 p.m. and hopes to reopen Saturday at 3 p.m.
Perhaps the biggest business the day before the storm hit was outside stores. At the corner of FM 2920 and SH 249, a group was selling a generator for $1,000 out of the bed of a pick-up truck.
Andy Collicott, of Tomball, said he had bought a broken generator the day before, bought a new one and decided to sell it.
"After the storm comes through and FEMA starts buying generators, I'm selling it to them too," he said. "As soon as my power's back on."
Further down SH 249, Tamara Jones and Jamese Spears sold fresh bread out of a delivery truck. Loaves of wheat and white bread went quickly for $2 each.
"We live in Tomball and deliver in Tomball and knew they were out of bread, so we wanted to help out," said Spears.
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