bad bad tommy :D

I have a grand unified theory of global warming and such.

Basically, nature is attempting to get more water down to grow more plants to absorb more CO2 to make more oxygen to re-establish the balance on the planet. When that happens, the storms will slow down and things will return to normal.

Until that happens, get use to it.

Alex

LOL! As a matter of fact, I spent two hours this morning going from store to store looking for D batteries! Did I also mention I'm 9 months pregnant and NOT looking forward to this hurricane?!

really my wife is due with twins any day now
congrats and good luck

by the way for all of you in the hurricane zones

I found this to be really good
I have 3 of em and gonna keep buying more every once in awhile
you can recharge it with 110 house current or from a car
http://www.coleman.com/coleman/colem...ategoryid=1045

Fuck, I'll stick with the ocassional earthquake, thank you very much!

-Preacher

Spend some of that porn money you keep stashing under your matress:
http://www.guardiangenerators.com/pr...an.asp?NavID=1

Nice, local news just said it's now expected to be a Cat 4 by Wednesday night.

South of Houston is the target so far.

Thanks and good luck to you and your wife also.

Twins!? I don't think I could handle that -all though, this will be my 4th baby so....

I have two of these. They take 8 D batteries and run up to 24 hours. Plenty of light and really great for reading by.
http://www.coleman.com/coleman/colem...ategoryid=1045

Greeny those things are like 7 k

Cleo what i really like about it is if your without power for a long time
you can rechare it from the car and you never have to worry about buying batteries

ladydesigner I will raise my price to 5 d batterys and a bag of ice :-)

Mine was $4K - and if you had it 2 years ago when all out power was off for hours & hours, you'd have been the only asshole on the block watching DVD's :D

Yeah that is what I would like to get next. Besides being expensive they go through something like 4 gallons of propane a hour so I would need to put in a really huge tank since it would be doubtful that I could get it refilled very soon after a hurricane.

My 5500 watt gas generator goes through about 5 gallons of gasoline every 12 hours and last storm I had a had time even finding more gas after 4 days. I did get more fuel this time and now I'm keeping 50 gallons of gas supply. This works real well but isn't enough to run my central A/C.

Tommy that is a nice feature now that you put it that way.

Cloe - don't you have natural gas coming into the house?

We don't have gas pipes where I live, just electric, water and sewerage.

I really would have liked to put a gas stove in when I remolded but it just got too expensive and too much hassle having propane storage and all that.

On the plus side we don't have septic tanks.

I have a septic tank, but 5 houses down the road, they have sewers |banghead|

I'm one of the few houses that has a well. The water isn't any good for drinking, too much sulfur, but is used for watering my lawn so all I have to pay for is the electric to run the pump. My water bill is less then half of what many of my neighbors pay.

The grass and plants seem to love it but it does sometimes smell like rotten eggs when the sprinklers are on and you have to be careful that the water doesn't get on anything that you don't want discolored, like your car or house.

It was kind of funny seeing my sprinklers coming on after a hurricane when no one but me had power. :D

What powers the pump? Oh generator, at $3 per gallons, I would let the grass die.

I did turn them off but they are on a timer so they came on as did my outdoor lighting and all the other crap on timers. |banghead|

Damn Rita is category 2 already and heads into the Gulf... it is forecast to become a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale. The conditions over the central Gulf are much like they were for Katrina... poor Texans and NO.

Not again... hope this thing will just passed by...

were enough of this and the damage of Katrina is this recovering... not now!

Well - as of 5 this morning its a 3 with only 10 mph to go to a cat4 - and pressure already down to cat 4 levels.

bought another 6200 yesterday - found that you can power a window unit AC with no problem - as long as you dont turn on the coffee pot at the same time - damn coffee pots take 1500kw by themselves - 3 times what my deep freezer takes

stuveltje - thats only the Unix world thats gonna end - and actually its 2038 - although that comet in 2012 might put a damper on the unix world anyway LOL

Simon and I have normally chatted for a bit by this time every morning. He isn't on ICQ so I assume he has at least lost his internet access. I hope he checks in safe and sound some time today.

I warned him about my having to come down there and fish his hairy butt out of the water |angry|

Well - they just announced its strengthened again to a cat 4 - well on its way to a cat 5 now

Mornin' all :)

Only online via s SprintPCS connection for now. The storm wasn't too bad as it went by here yesterday/last night, but it did take out the powerlines for lots of the lower keys. We've been without power since around 5 last night (generator running), and the cable system and the DSL services are still down this morning but cell service came back.

Surfn - the water rose to the level of the walkaround in the boat house, and up to the third step down to the canal. Higher than we've ever seen it come up here, but not high enough to get to the house. So, still hairy but not soggy. :) Plus we didn't get the huge hailstones like your state got the day before.

We should be back online sometime today when the crews get our lines reconnected and energized. Fortunately the servers aren't down here, so everything else should be fine for everyone.

Simon