The Weather
For the past few days the weather has been beautiful. Every day between 10am and 11am the outside temperature has risen above the inside temperature.  With great pleasure I have flung open the doors of the house to enjoy one of the two small periods of the year where the weather is comparable to [...]

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After the storm, once you realize you’ve lived through another, your awareness of your surroundings is contracted. You begin by wandering around just your own little space surrounding your home…Checking for damage, fixing the immediate needs if possible.
Then you begin to expand your awareness to your neighbors. First you check out those immediately around you, [...]

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We got our power and phones back last night. The neighbors are still dark. I don’t know exactly what the it is the government learned from Katrina, but living through their opinion of a well run after disaster relief effort I am unimpressed.
Ike plowed through here like a farmer with an old mule…Trees, power poles, [...]

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This isn’t looking very good…Again.
The latest 12Z (8 am EDT) computer models continue to show that Ike will track northwest into the central Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday and Wednesday. However, there has been a major shift in the model tracks for Thursday and Friday. All of the models are calling for a more westward [...]

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