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Gratz on still having your house! Take care, and try not to stress

Whew, glad you're ok. /hug

Glad you're all right! We have seen a -lot- of Ike evacuees up here from your area. We did get a ton of wind and clouds but none of the rain.

hehehe Yeah Aishe I bet! Lemme tell you come the next storm all of my family has decided we're hightailing it for my uncle's house up there on the lake.

Oh boy, that hurricane looked nasty on television. Glad to hear you weathered the worst of it without injury to home or self.

Oh good to hear from you! i was starting to worry. Here's hoping everything rights itself quickly. *hugs*

glad your safe and that your home is still intact! Hopefully they get everything restored soon!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/17/ike.recovery.starbucks/index.html

HA!

Yeah it was indeed nasty. I keep watching the news (last night was the first time "normal" TV was on again it had been non stop coverage of the storm since Friday) and when they show all the places on the waterfront just GONE... places I've been or worse always drove by and went man I need to go there some day..... it's kind of hard to comprehend. Just driving down a residential street and seeing the trees in houses, all the mess.. My 10 year old neice woke up at 5am yesterday just stressed beyond belief, unable to rest and almost throwing up. Thankfully the net at Starbucks gave her a chance to play WoW and it helped.

And yep Roz that is about right. It was a sea of laptops everywhere when we left out around 5:30 last night, strangers all crowded around the tables together talking, sharing the strip plug someone may have brought.. asking each other if they needed to charge their phone since they had an open outlet. Was kind of cool... but I'm antisocial (sis too) so we 3 were in the corner at one table but even we were talking to people randomly sometimes.

Storm damage is funny. My mom lives 3 houses down from my sister and has no power. Heck everyone around my sis doesn't for half the block. I am still in the areas the electric company has designated for "sometime after the 22nd" for power restoral. I'm lumped in the same lot as Galveston if that tells you anything... My neighborhood has buried utilities since its new but the source lines around us are messed up. Every 4 hours they update, and I check my zip to see how many more people have it. Yesterday 45 lucky people got power! Just not my neighborhood. My dad had electricity come on around midnight where he lives so the crews are working around the clock. Hopefully soon more than 2 gas stations in my area will have power so the lines will go down.

I'm dreading cleaning out my fridge and deep freezer =(

me, rowland, and the rest of the hillbillies 'round here hope you get things sorted out with, in steve's words, "with minimal complications." Rowland says to tell you that you have all of our prayers through all of this. He can't be on today, but i want you to know that he gives a damn. So, yeah. Sorry 'bout the distrubing speech, but, well, none of us are good at consoling people. (insert random loud salutation here)

Glad you're doing alright. Ike gave us rain and cooler weather but he wasn't that nice everywhere.

Well good news is I got power back at the house last night!! First time back in my bed and not on my sister's couch in nine days. Of course the bad thing is I still haven't cleaned out my fridge and deep freezer. Really have been avoiding that.. I wonder if they make enough lysol? =(

My suggestion. Gas Masks and Radiation Suits. Its the best way.

I have to face this in a coupla weeks when I get home Amby. One of my friends dealt with my fridge, but didn't touch the freezer. I had just gone grocery shopping right before the windstorm, too

Yay for power and welcome home!

as for the cleaning... ummmm... goggles and some kind of mask are good tools.

*crosses fingers on your behalf*

oh Miya.... WEEKS? Oh dear ummm.... that is bad. I can't describe how disgusting my fridge was/is after 9 days.. It's empty now but until I am up to scrubbing it down with bleach it will stay that way its so gross ATM. The smell is gonna be unreal, I remember hearing about it from Katrina cleanup, when they could not get back into New Orleans for weeks. Most people just taped up the fridge and threw it out, some who tried to open it were made violently ill from the stench. Pay a friend to do it NOW...!

I'm glad that you're safe and back on home turf.

It is strange how disasters can bring groups of individuals who would normally not even glance at one another in their daily lives into tight cooperation.

As for the fridge and freezer? My only suggestion might be pulling the whole thing sealed, outside, if at all possible. I know that we wouldn't have been able to move the storage freezer from the basement at A's mother's with less than eight people.

Take care!

My fridge is cleared out, nad apparently it wasn't so bad. He hasn't touched my freezer and I'm actually nervous about it. Power was out for 6 days, so it shouldn't be SO bad, but we shall see. I get home in about a week... so...

I did notice when clearing out mine that the refrozen things while icky and melty were not nearly as bad as the refrigerated things so maaaaaybe you won't be too bad off.

well after lots of nights working at home til 10 or 11 and staying busy at work I am hoping to be mostly back to normal and posting again. Tomorrow I hope!! Again apologies to all, thanks for being patient =)