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Winter drawers on.
To be fair, did anyone ever actually call you "Wossname"? You are and always were "Wossy". So it sounds like the right way to go I reckon.Quote:
I'll stick with this wossy account for now
It's just a shame that I can no longer cash in those reps and that post count for Esso tokens. That was my retirement plan once upon a time.
By my reckoning, in 2005 money I could have bought a nifty travel kettle and two thirds of a garage door opener.
A rolling passcode with a flat?
Russians everywhere.
Your gasket retainer has a look of autumn about it. Why risk biscuits?
The golden chair writhes again.
That golden chair thread always sounded like it was a discussion about senior bathroom chairs
It made sense?
I just got back from helping family tarp up homes and clean out debris. There were parts of a town that I spent 25 years of my life in that I can no longer recognize.
That's true of where I grew up, and it wasn't hit by a hurricane. Eventually, time erases everything.
Was the damage as bad as you first feared, or is there more salvageable than you had expected?
It is worse than I first feared. Pictures aren't doing it justice.
My sister and her family live in Lafayette. Some flooding around them but got lucky. If the storm was 30 miles east it would have been a different story.
I'm not terribly unhappy about living in an area that doesn't have the interesting weather that the US can get. There's nowhere else in the world that gets the tornado threat that our Midwest gets. There are other places (including this one) that CAN get tornadoes, but not to the level of the Midwest. We also don't get hurricanes, and if we ever got the rain from a hurricane, this state would be a total mess as all the hills slid into the valleys.
I usually take Hwy 90 to I-10 to get to Lake Charles, but the traffic has been so bad that I've been taking Hwy 90 to Hwy 14. So I haven't been through Lafayette recently, but I can tell you that the damage starts to appear around Abbeville and then once you get to Kaplan it starts look look like every single home was effected, and then around Hayes that's when the serious damage starts to show up.
I moved to the Florida Keys in the aftermath of Andrew. The left lane on the interstate was closed to all but emergency vehicles for weeks after the storm. Most street signs were also missing, which made navigation a bit interesting, especially for somebody who had never been there before, but it couldn't have been all that easy for those who had lived there for years. All the houses had been flattened, along with many or most businesses.
Eventually, there were long piles of trash, about 1-2 stories high and hundreds of meters long. These piles were the remains of the houses. They were just scraped together into long piles, which were then transported....I have no idea where. It took months.
We have another hurricane hitting us, this time it is headed to my side of the state. Luckily I'll be just west of where it'll make landfall and the west side is the best side.
Basically it's hitting Plaquemines parish and I'm in Lafourche parish.
All we have is smoke. The sun has been orange for days, and it looks like it will remain that way for at least another week. Makes for slightly poor breathing, though the air quality isn't really horrible, at this point. When the fires get closer, it can get pretty bad. So far, the fires are staying at a distance.
Meanwhile, I'm quarantined. I doubt it will amount to anything. I was on a work trip in the wilderness last week and one of the guys on the trip ended up getting sick. That's rare enough in the wilderness, cause who are you going to catch anything from? He got tested, though, and until we hear the results, the rest of us are staying home.