Gustav

[cowgirlintexas]

Originally Posted by Mortimer

Well you should get it fixed.

And it's not the place...it's the person.






I mean the White House is a great place to live.......see what I'm saying?

"Yes" I do, and "yes" I am.

[Mortimer]

Good.

[cowgirlintexas]

o.k.. It's starting to get a bit ugly here..Winds are starting to gust to about 35 -40 mph.. Pray the power stays on! Or off.. if you don't like me

Wow Morton.

Come to the dark side.
Excellent job at bringing so many things to light.

[Mortimer]

Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio
by Carl Sandburg

It's a jazz affair, drum crashes and cornet razzes.
The trombone pony neighs and the tuba jackass snorts.
The banjo tickles and titters too awful.
The chippies talk about the funnies in the papers.
The cartoonists weep in their beer.
Ship riveters talk with their feet
To the feet of floozies under the tables.
A quartet of white hopes mourn with interspersed snickers:
"I got the blues.
I got the blues.
I got the blues."
And . . . as we said earlier:
The cartoonists weep in their beer.

[Mortimer]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

Oh my god.

ror!!!!





Oh stick your pud in CowGirl.



















Oh my God!!

[cowgirlintexas]

Was that your ventriloquist talking?

[Mortimer]

I meant zipper..really...honest.


Hossy understands.

[Danzig]

it's raining here pretty good, wasn't supposed to get here for another day.
just talked to a friend who lives in st. francisville la. he has two holes in his roof now, with five trees down in the backyard. damn squirrels!
hope everyone in the area down there comes thru all this ok. still baffled that some choose to stay. and in doing so, which i doubt they care, they endanger the lives of those who then have to rescue them.

[cowgirlintexas]

Well, Thank Goodness it weakend before hitting where it did..It really could have been so much worse. I am here in the Beaumont area (the ugly city ) and we have'nt even had any of the rains yet. The wind has picked up some, but not like we had feared a few days ago.
They did issue a mandatory evacuation here yesterday, but I chose to wait until all the traffic died down, then saw that I was'nt going to have to leave after all

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by pgardn

Mayor Nagin of New orleans:

The mayor’s warnings were considerably more dramatic than the forecasts issued by the National Hurricane Center, and he may have been trying to shock jaded residents into taking prudent steps. But he said storm surges, particularly on the city’s West Bank, could be twice as high as the neighborhood’s 10-foot levees, and said those choosing to remain in their homes should have an axe to chop through their roof when the floodwaters rise.

The storm, he said, was now 900 miles wide, compared with 400 miles for Katrina. Even the capital of Baton Rouge, 80 miles inland from New Orleans, could experience hurricane force winds of up to 100 m.p.h., he said. But Dennis Feltgen, a spokesman for the National Hurricane Center, said he had no idea what the mayor meant by a 900-mile footprint, saying that hurricane force winds do not extend nearly that far.



He has everything under control.
Idiot.

REMAIN CALM, ALL IS WELL!!!!!!

[Danzig]

no power at my house this morning, winds are pretty strong. so, had to buy coffee (ugh) and get dressed by flashlight. but, clothes are on right side out so all is well.

[cowgirlintexas]

Originally Posted by Danzig

no power at my house this morning, winds are pretty strong. so, had to buy coffee (ugh) and get dressed by flashlight. but, clothes are on right side out so all is well.

Bummer Zig...Guess it cold have been worse tho...At least this time you still have a house intact..Where are you?

[Danzig]

i live in southeast arkansas. took me an hour and forty five minutes to get to work this morning, and i only live ten minutes away. the fourth time i doubled back and took another route, i was finally able to get thru. water over the roads, power lines down, trees down kept me from getting thru in two spots. and it really irritated me that in both cases i had already traversed high water( but NOT flowing, thank goodness-that's a deal breaker) and was almost to the highway and a tree was across the road. so back five miles in the opposite direction, then another five, and another tree across the road. crazy stuff! but power is on-for now.

[cowgirlintexas]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i live in southeast arkansas. took me an hour and forty five minutes to get to work this morning, and i only live ten minutes away. the fourth time i doubled back and took another route, i was finally able to get thru. water over the roads, power lines down, trees down kept me from getting thru in two spots. and it really irritated me that in both cases i had already traversed high water( but NOT flowing, thank goodness-that's a deal breaker) and was almost to the highway and a tree was across the road. so back five miles in the opposite direction, then another five, and another tree across the road. crazy stuff! but power is on-for now.

Sounds like quite a headache Zig.. Hope it gets better for you

At least the power is on right?

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by cowgirlintexas

Sounds like quite a headache Zig.. Hope it gets better for you

At least the power is on right?

oh yeah, way better than a lot of people-just a pain travelling this morning. and now a tree is precariously tilted towards our office....but hopefully it'll stay propped on the tree that's holding it off our heads til the tree guy gets here!

[Mortimer]

Bet you'll need 4.