Oh Simon, your simplicity has truly brought a chunk of normalicy back to my life. Sparring with you and several other "pundits" here is genuinely one of my most enjoyable pasttimes. :)

Unless your comments above were generic and not specifically directed at me perhaps you have formed an inaccurate opinion of me. I am a rather religious person myself. If dig around the forum you will find I have answered religious questions in much more research based answers than at least 95% of the thread participants. I do not follow any organized religion but consider myself a non-denominational Christian and research my own answers rather than allowing any single entity to spoon-feed them to me.

You are more than welcome to research every post I have ever made to GFY (or any formum on the internet for that matter) and you will not find one where I ripped on religions or churches. What I have ripped apart is hipocrites, blasphemers, liars and control freaks. There's a huge difference :winkwink:

I'm northeast of NO. They are basically dead there:(

The good stuff is happening very near me. I'm still the only one on the street with power. Then again, I was listening closely to the radio and did go tell all of the neighbors what they needed to do to get running. There's only 3 houses on my street where people are staying at night.

None of the fast food joints or regular stores are open yet. Walmart and Lowes is pretty much it. Note: You can pretty much live out of those 2 stores :upsidedow

I hate to ask.... but Pix?

Happy birthday ... :GFYBand

Blog would be nice. If you need free space ( and easy install - Fantastico), let me know.

Keep well.

I was on the edge of destruction... one of the final locations south in my area able to accept power. There are 150 year old historic homes that have ridden out every 20th and 21st century storms 3 streets south of me that are literally gone. :helpme

There are too many close calls to believe anything other than someone (thing) watched out for me. I've faired better than anyone around me and now that I have the net connection I have neighbors and family that can use it to take care of their businesss. Nobody saved their computers. :Oh crap

If you're gonna restore power,give it to the geek :thumbsup :1orglaugh

Glad you are OK despite the nightmare :thumbsup

Glad you made it ok. Stuff can be replaced. People cant :(

The computer I just got has a slot for my camera card. My camera video died during the storm but I got some video and in the aftermath I was able to take some pics by turning the camera off and on after each one until it finally died. I got some disposable cameras after that so those will be developed later (lots of insurance pics, etc). I'll try to upload some of the digitals in a bit.

I'm very glad to hear you and yours are ok.

Stay safe man, and best luck for the future. Katrina killed my friends father in law here in Florida as well, prior to landfall in the Gulf coast. He was killed by a falling tree :( If you need any spare computer parts, cables, wires, etc, I'm sure others like me have closets full. Just put the shout out!

50 sucks a 10

51 inches of water

Water is rising!

Waaaaaaa that's fuxored up big time man ... hopefully you'll get out of it nicely from now on !

My friend's father-in-law drowned:(
The geekiest greatest thing anyone could do for me is point me in the direction to salvage a floppy that the metal is corroded on but contained scans of old family pics that were lost in the water and any way to salvage a few precious home video tapes.

Oh wow, I'm glad to hear everything is okay. I've been wondering about you. I also had some family in a high area that got trapped (Fountainbleau Drive, near Tulane) when the levees broke. My uncle had to go in last Saturday and get them out. Luckily, the water stopped at their porch and never came in the house. They also had a generator.

Do you need a place to stay? I have plenty of room. Seriously... I'm only a couple of states east of you and it's a fairly short drive for me. I could come get you. (And ignore Warchild. I will whip his ass later. If you come stay with me we can make daiquiris and get drunk and talk nasty about him.)

It's totally cool man... I've got a dry room (with AC as of yesterday:)) as ground zero to dig out the rest of the place, a net connection, a phone (if I get off the net:1orglaugh) and hot water. Nobody else around me has more than one of those. I'm boogie chillin' :thumbsup

I have an incredibly lucky pocket to be in for recovery but drinking daiquris and beating up on warchild sounds like a lovely raincheck that for sure needs to be cash in on :upsidedow

Okay, good to hear. Just let me know if you need out, lol.

My cousin and her husband are leaving this week for Houston. He's with Smith Barney and they have them set up with a house in Houston already and he'll be working with their office there. I know she's anxious to get back into their house and get their things out.