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- Dave

If you’re curious what life is like after a hurricane, there are some unbelievable photos here and here and here that capture the devastation fairly well.  It’s been a rough week so far.  The apartment complex where Justine and I live has rented a giant generator to supply power to the building for crucial things like AC, light and refrigeration.

We still do not have running water or electricity to the whole apartment.  Yet we both feel lucky to have what we have.

There are millions (yes, literally millions) of people without electricity or water in the greater Houston area.  Many of our friends are in the same boat.

I’ve been putting in a lot of hours at work and am pretty beat.  Justine and I had the first “real” meal tonight at a local restaurant that was open for business.  I drank my margarita so fast I think I shocked the waitress.  That’s ok, they made more margaritas.

I hope the lives of all my friends and colleagues return to normal in the weeks and months to come.

I heard someone say “It’s a good thing Texans are tough.”

Yep, it sure is.

UPDATE – Saturday, Sept 12th - We’re all fine here, just without power and water.  It’s like camping, except not nearly as much fun.

We are staying in Houston to ride out Hurricane Ike.  We have plenty of food, water, batteries, etc to keep us going.  I’ll try to take some photos or video of the events and post them at some point.

The latest models have Ike at a Category 3 hurricane at landfall hitting near the coast of Galveston, TX (just down the road).  Hopefully everyone has evacuated Galveston because the storm surge will most certainly flood portions of the island.

We will probably lose power at some point here in Houston, so my updates to this blog may be sporadic over the next few days.  Not that they’ve been regular up to this point, really.

Catch ya’ll later.

- Dave

P.S. – Oh, enjoy a little Scorpions & The Berlin Philharmonic playing “Rock you like a hurricane.”  Yeah, I’m probably not taking this as seriously as I should.

We’ve been watching hurricane coverage on and off this morning and it looks like the levees are holding in NOLA, but lots of folks are without power.

Glad we’re all safe here.

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Appalling use of punctuation and grammar, but it sounds interesting, don’t you think?

-Dave

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“The foul pole relaxes?”  That’s ironic coming from a Viagra spam, don’t you think?

-Dave

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Someone should put a book together of spam poetry.  Some of this actually sounds good.

-Dave

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This ends todays Spam Poetry.

-Dave