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Hurricane Stuff
Aug. 30th, 2005 03:06 pmWell, my home never completely lost power (well not for more than five minutes at a time) but most of Birmingham did. I did lose cable (tv and computer) last night. We'll see if it's on again when I make it home. The office didn't have power this morning but it came on about 10am. We weren't sure where would be open for lunch so boss ordered pizzas in (no delivery was available so it had to be pick-up). The tree that mostly fell during Ivan that I had staked upright and fell during Dennis, fell again (no surprise there) and it's staked up one more time (how it's alive now, I'll never know. It probably won't survive this one).
All in all, apart from downed lines, trees, and poles, all is well here. The storm must have been horrific beyond imagining on the coast because, truthfully it was loud and disturbing even here last night... and that's many HUNDREDS of miles from where it hit.
In the freakiness of hurricanes, it's absolutely GORGEOUS outside now.
Have seen the video footage online of Biloxi and Gulfport, Ms. and it's astounding. It does look like tsunami footage. My heart goes out to them. And New Orleans looks like a complete mess. How they're going to clean that up, I don't know. It's going to be a herculean effort. By contrast, Mobile and Gulf Shores got off easy (though I've heard reports that the luxury resort at Point Clear was pretty much sunk). Still by contrast to New Orleans and Biloxi, Mobile and Gulf Shores looks like recoverable damage. It's going to take decades to rebuild Biloxi. And I fear New Orleans will be permanently scarred because, truth to be told, it always looked like it had an extensive underprivileged population that I don't think can afford to rebuild, and New Orleans has so many infrastructure problems at this point that just making the city habitable at all has to be first priority.
All in all, apart from downed lines, trees, and poles, all is well here. The storm must have been horrific beyond imagining on the coast because, truthfully it was loud and disturbing even here last night... and that's many HUNDREDS of miles from where it hit.
In the freakiness of hurricanes, it's absolutely GORGEOUS outside now.
Have seen the video footage online of Biloxi and Gulfport, Ms. and it's astounding. It does look like tsunami footage. My heart goes out to them. And New Orleans looks like a complete mess. How they're going to clean that up, I don't know. It's going to be a herculean effort. By contrast, Mobile and Gulf Shores got off easy (though I've heard reports that the luxury resort at Point Clear was pretty much sunk). Still by contrast to New Orleans and Biloxi, Mobile and Gulf Shores looks like recoverable damage. It's going to take decades to rebuild Biloxi. And I fear New Orleans will be permanently scarred because, truth to be told, it always looked like it had an extensive underprivileged population that I don't think can afford to rebuild, and New Orleans has so many infrastructure problems at this point that just making the city habitable at all has to be first priority.
