A Completely Unrelated Series of Thoughts... Part 6

[TraderJake]

That's a shame about all the rain in Northern Illinois / Indiana / Ohio / Pennsylvania. It's been nice here all day, and yesterday all it did was spit.

[Sirgin]

The US really got it bad on the weather department. With all the storms, hurricanes and floodings and stuff.

We get floodings here too in Belgium although the particular area I live never gets flooded
In fact, I live in a non-flooding, non-hurricane, non-eathquake and non-vulcano area. Wooot!

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

http://www.gadling.com/20...ating-north-korea-part-1/

Read it. You will appreciate freedom 50 million times more.

And then you want to go and elect someone like Obama :O

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

That's a shame about all the rain in Northern Illinois / Indiana / Ohio / Pennsylvania. It's been nice here all day, and yesterday all it did was spit.

We didn't get any rain at the Wine Festival.

[NES_Rules]

The US really got it bad on the weather department. With all the storms, hurricanes and floodings and stuff.

We get floodings here too in Belgium although the particular area I live never gets flooded
In fact, I live in a non-flooding, non-hurricane, non-eathquake and non-vulcano area. Wooot!

The US does have some bad weather overall. The west coast has earthquakes and forest fire, the central states have tons of tornadoes, and the East and Southern coasts have hurricanes.  The northern states are generally the best, we really just get the occasional tornadoes and minor floodings.

[Hydrobond]

That's a shame about all the rain in Northern Illinois / Indiana / Ohio / Pennsylvania. It's been nice here all day, and yesterday all it did was spit.

No rain today in Cincy...

[logical123]

That's a shame about all the rain in Northern Illinois / Indiana / Ohio / Pennsylvania. It's been nice here all day, and yesterday all it did was spit.

No rain today in Cincy...

lucky...

Actually, I kinda like this much weather. It is fun!     

[Mr. Ksoft]

I LOVE MARCHING BAND!!!

I'm sorry, but I've just had a completely fantastic day.  We did a contest, we did well, and I had a complete blast with all my bandgeek buddies.  It's 1 AM and my energy is bursting.  I am as happy as can be and nothing can change it

[logical123]

I LOVE MARCHING BAND!!!

I'm sorry, but I've just had a completely fantastic day.  We did a contest, we did well, and I had a complete blast with all my bandgeek buddies.  It's 1 AM and my energy is bursting.  I am as happy as can be and nothing can change it

Yeah, band is awesome.

In other news... 13 September 2008 - A Saturday. THE WETTEST DAY IN RECORDED CHICAGO HISTORY!!!! AND!!! WE ARE STILL GETTING RAIN!! Ike is coming people!!! The Des Plains is supposed to crest something like 1 - 2 feet ABOVE flood boundaries. Ike is all like KAPLOWAWOW!!!!

*sigh*

Let me see, Day 3 of this storm. Hours since beginning: ABT 46 hours. Time remaining: 12-24 hours.

And the sump pump keeps going off every 5 minutes or so.

[Sirgin]

Hang in there logical!!!

[Hydrobond]

We've been getting some very high winds here recently.  The gusts are so bad that it overturned some very heavy iron furniture in the common area of my apartment building.  I also thing something has knocked over a telephone pole by my parents house as I can't get a telephone connection to work to the house and the server which I keep there is offline.  I have some pictures of the wind which I will post when the server is back online.

[TraderJake]

Yeah, my dad power said was out all over Cincinnati. Certainly it's keeping the Bengals game from being an air game.

[NES_Rules]

It's been starting to get gusty here in the last few hours. There were several branches in the road on my way home from work. I haven't hear of any power outages yet though.

[logical123]

Aww... School... I... don't... wanna!!!!

[Hydrobond]

Yeah, my dad power said was out all over Cincinnati. Certainly it's keeping the Bengals game from being an air game.

As far as I know power is still out at my mom's house.  I can't really even get in touch with them when the power is out.  According to the Enquirer, there were 573,000 homes without power as of 7:00 AM , which translates to roughly 1.5 million people.  Because I am on a new power sub-station, my apartment building never lost power, even though most of the adjoining properties were without power.  I feel kinda lucky in that regard.  And of course my office has power and Internet access, so I don't get the day off like 75% of the city.  (I am posting this from work.  Shame on me.) 

Here is a nifty little app that shows where the substations without power are and the number of homes which do not have power. http://www.duke-energy.co...stoutages/maps/CGEmap.htm

Some more info: http://news.cincinnati.co...eferrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL

This was over 1000 miles inland from where the hurricane hit land, I don't want to think about how long its going to take to get Houston back together. 

Also, anyone else wonder how Izret is doing?  I think he moved down to Galveston, TX which is where the storm made landfall.  Hope he and his family are all ok.

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