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August 31, 2005
Good Luck Louisiana...
I spent too much time watching all the News channels last night (Nightline had a very interesting hour telecast) on the hurricane damage...Obviously Miss took the brunt of the force, with most of it's shoreline devestated (entire hotels were picked up and relocated), houses blown to bits, trees uprooted, etc...New Orleans has the joy of flooding, snakes, crocs, sharks (!), and looters...And its gonna be bad for a long time to come...those flooded houses will be worthless, and what I keep wondering is 'where are all those folks going to be for the next year?'..cause they certainly have no home to go to...
some are here in Austin, and the hotels are actually discounting their rates, instead of gouging them like Houston was so kindly doing..Austin is cool...But can you imagine being in a hotel for a year? I don't think so...so would you get an apartment and a new job in a new town and just see what happened in your old home? Folks can't stay w/out food, water and electricity, especially in August in Louisiana - that's crazy talk...
anyway, I stayed up too late watching all that...
Some of Brian's remaining birthday gifts arrived yesterday - the coolest thing is a Digital Binary watch that tells time in Binary code...dots light up and you have to add the numbers together to come up with the time...its brilliant! I saw it last month and wanted one for myself, but I don't think in binary (1 and 0) code...Brian does, and when he saw the pic, he told me he could use the watch...so I bought it and come to find out - the face is imprinted with the numbers above each dot, so even a dork like me can add them together and read the time...I bought him the blue face, but now I want one for me..think I'll have to buy the red one...It speaks to my love of funky weird watches...
Posted by Donner at August 31, 2005 09:56 AM