Press Release // Directron.com Reopens after Hurricane Rita

Spectrum · 26-September-05, 01:24 PM

Houston, TX - www.directron.com is one of the largest e-commerce companies based in Houston, Texas. With more than 70 employees and 12,000 items, Directron.com operates from a 100,000 sq. ft. warehouse. It sells computer parts, systems, laptops, and peripherals. This past week, Directron.com’s services were interrupted by Category 5 Hurricane Rita.

To give time to employees to prepare for Rita and evacuate, Directron.com closed their office and warehouse on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 22-23. Their website, www.directron.com, continued to receive orders during the storm. Directron.com’s sister website, www.axiontech.com, also remained open during this time.

Fortunately, Rita shifted toward East Texas and Directron.com experienced very minor damage from the storm. Directron.com employees cleaned up the debris on Saturday. On Sunday, most orders placed during Rita were processed and ready to ship on Monday, Sept. 26, 2005. The company gave a discount for future orders to those whose orders have been affected by the storm.

All Directron.com employees are counted and a overwhelming majority of them returned to work on Monday. About half of them evacuated. Some went to Austin and some went to Dallas. The trip normally takes about 3-4 hours. It took in average 15 hours during the evacuation due to traffic gridlocks. Alfonso Moreno, Directron.com RMA manager, and his family spent 30 hours to get from Houston to Dallas. They are all pleased that Rita is over and to be back working and serving their customers.

Directron.com feels blessed and wishes to thank all of those friends, customers, and vendors around the world who have shown support and concerns during the past four days.

4rm4g3dd0n · 27-September-05, 08:13 AM

man that thing coulda been bad for houston, they dodged a big bullet. we were expecting lots of damage here in college station, about 95 miles inland from houston, but the storm decided that it wanted to go east so we didnt even get any rain. we did however get some wind, but the saturday that we thought was going to be really bad turned out to be a goregous day. im glad everything turned out ok for them and their families, as well as for everyone in the houston area

26-September-05, 01:24 PM		#1 (permalink)
Spectrum GameApex Editor	Press Release // Directron.com Reopens after Hurricane Rita Houston, TX - www.directron.com is one of the largest e-commerce companies based in Houston, Texas. With more than 70 employees and 12,000 items, Directron.com operates from a 100,000 sq. ft. warehouse. It sells computer parts, systems, laptops, and peripherals. This past week, Directron.com’s services were interrupted by Category 5 Hurricane Rita. To give time to employees to prepare for Rita and evacuate, Directron.com closed their office and warehouse on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 22-23. Their website, www.directron.com, continued to receive orders during the storm. Directron.com’s sister website, www.axiontech.com, also remained open during this time. Fortunately, Rita shifted toward East Texas and Directron.com experienced very minor damage from the storm. Directron.com employees cleaned up the debris on Saturday. On Sunday, most orders placed during Rita were processed and ready to ship on Monday, Sept. 26, 2005. The company gave a discount for future orders to those whose orders have been affected by the storm. All Directron.com employees are counted and a overwhelming majority of them returned to work on Monday. About half of them evacuated. Some went to Austin and some went to Dallas. The trip normally takes about 3-4 hours. It took in average 15 hours during the evacuation due to traffic gridlocks. Alfonso Moreno, Directron.com RMA manager, and his family spent 30 hours to get from Houston to Dallas. They are all pleased that Rita is over and to be back working and serving their customers. Directron.com feels blessed and wishes to thank all of those friends, customers, and vendors around the world who have shown support and concerns during the past four days.

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27-September-05, 08:13 AM		#2 (permalink)
4rm4g3dd0n Apex Elite Tech	man that thing coulda been bad for houston, they dodged a big bullet. we were expecting lots of damage here in college station, about 95 miles inland from houston, but the storm decided that it wanted to go east so we didnt even get any rain. we did however get some wind, but the saturday that we thought was going to be really bad turned out to be a goregous day. im glad everything turned out ok for them and their families, as well as for everyone in the houston area