PORT ARTHUR, Texas — The Ike-battered credit unions of southeastTexas, operating all week on backup generators, skeleton staffs, noInternet and limited member service, were starting at last to getpower Thursday.
“We had our Beaumont branch come on yesterday and two daysbefore that Lumberton, but we've lost the leased building in BridgeCity which is still under water,” declared Erik Shaw, president/CEOof the five-branch, $285 million Fivepoint FCU, describing himselfnow as a certified hurricane veteran of CU calamities.
The Port Arthur CU, fully functioning now except for the BridgeCity branch, withstood Hurricane Rita in 2005 “and here we areagain with a mobile branch operating at our Port Arthur office,which was destroyed by Rita,” said Shaw who spent Thursday up onthe roof doing some patchwork.
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