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31Augsheesh

FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS-BATON ROUGE LA
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
115 PM CDT WED AUG 31 2005

CATASTROPHIC FLOODING CONTINUES IN THE NEW ORLEANS AREA

WATER LEVELS IN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CONTINUE TO RISE. ALL INDICATIONS ARE THAT WATER LEVELS WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY RISE THIS AFTERNOON.

AS RESCUE AND RELIEF EFFORTS CONTINUE FOR STRANDED VICTIMS…THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO REMAIN CALM AND FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS OF LOCAL OFFICIALS SO THAT YOU DO NOT HINDER SUCH EFFORTS. IF YOU ARE INSTRUCTED TO LEAVE NEW ORLEANS BY AUTHORITIES…THEN DO SO!

IF YOU ARE READING THIS MESSAGE OUTSIDE OF NEW ORLEANS…DO NOT GO THERE. ADDITIONAL PEOPLE WILL ONLY COMPLICATE THE AFOREMENTIONED RESCUE AND RELIEF EFFORTS. IF YOU ARE ON HIGHER GROUND IN THE MIDST OF THIS FLOODING AND YOU HAPPEN TO RECEIVE THIS MESSAGE BY WHATEVER MEANS…DO NOT ASSUME THE WATER LEVEL WILL NOT CONTINUE TO RISE OVER YOUR LOCATION. BE PREPARED TO QUICKLY SEEK HIGHER GROUND.

FINALLY…AND IF YOU IN THE MIDST OF THE FLOODING IN PROGRESS…BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS OF DANGEROUS SHARP OBJECTS THAT ARE UNDER THE WATER SURFACE AND/OR HOLES THAT COULD CAUSE YOU TO SUDDENLY BE OVER YOUR HEAD. IF POSSIBLE…TRY TO AVOID THE CONTACT OF CUTS AND
SCRAPES ON YOUR BODY TO THE FLOOD WATERS.

MEDLIN

National Weather Service

Friggin scary.

31AugBlogday? never heard of it

Ahhh two more days before I go on a nice week off. I can’t wait, but at work its sucking right now. I’m trying to condense two weeks worth of work into 3 days. So yeah I’m running around all crazy like trying to get it all done before 4pm on Friday. Its should be too hard if managemnet would leave me alone for like 2-3 hours. Just that, and I would be done. COurse thats not that simple with management thats either on your back making sure you do everything, or you don’t see them for like 7 hours. I like the later myself.

So I guess today is “Blogger day”. Happy Blogger day! I guess its a way for people to get to know other bloggers. Well the whole 5 people that read this blog will be introduced to a whole new group of bloggers. So starting in no particular order are:

  • 1. Crystals site. Crystal, other than being my wife has a great writing style, and is a very crafty person. She makes just about everything, probably even a cozy for the kitchen sink if you could find a pattern for it.
  • 2. WaiterRant. I don’t know his real name, but he has some great stories. I love his writting style as its so easy to read. Usually I’ll just skim blogs and more than likely never go back, but he has me checking everyday to see if he posted.
  • 3. EspressoNinja. Austin is/was a barrista at a Starbucks. I love Starbucks, but thanks to going and getting coffee there for like 3 years, and reading his blog, I now know how to order properly.
  • 4. SlightlyDrunk. Ahh the drunkin stories of a Crazy guy with lots of great drunkin stories. Always leaves you wanting more.
  • 5. Perfect Idiot. As Will says; “I am an idiot. I do stupid things and write about them on the internet.” What more could you want? Its great, I’ve actually laughed as I have read some of his posts.

So go and check them out, and tell em Ed from digital-ed sent you!

I feel so bad for the people on the gulf coast. My inlaws, inlaws decided to stay where they were. The are ok, and safe in Pensacola, but there alot of people without homes now, and they have nothing. It really makes you happy for what you got. I may bitch about the house we live in, but atleast we have a home. One of my co-workers has a sister in Buluxi, she can’t get ahold of her. My thoughts are with the people down there. I wish that I could do something to help.

29Augyay!

W00t!
The Transporter 2 and Mr and Mrs Smith are playing at the drive in this weekend! Hope the weather is ok!

Cause I wanna go!

27AugTaking control of the home…

I like to have things clean. In fact, I can clean other peoples messes very easy. But when it comes to my own mess I suck. I suck long and hard. So once again, I’m gonna take some before pictures, and after pics to hopefully get the house in “guest mode” Cause a couple of years ago, I wanted to have a dinner over here. Well for some reason, I think cause we were friggin broke, it fell through and the inlaws cancelled. Well the house has gone to shit. I don’t want it shitty anymore, I wanna have people over. SO here with some massive embarrasement (and trust me, some of the rooms looked worse) are pictures of the house. I forgot to take before pictures of the living room. Oops.

The first picture is of the living room. That, other than the kicthen is the romm that everyone will see, with the exception of the bathroom, but not so much. In the living room, thats where we will be doing most of the entertaining. Including, video games, board games, movies, and just talking. Thes like two more peices of furnature that livingroomI wanna get. A new TV stand, and a proper coffee table. Other than that the room is done. (Aside from moving the sewing maching into the second bedroom. (after that is cleaned out.))

The kitchen. Where to start? I love to cook, but with the kitchen the way it is now. I don’t even like to walk threw it, let along cook. I’ve gone to the extreme after the dishwasher broke, and as of right now, if the dishwahers the inlaws gave us were to show up right now, I would be embarrased for them to help me get it in here.kitchen At one point this room, was spotless. Then I think I started to work crazy hours, and it just fell apart. Now its just the room, where shit goes, when its waiting to get picked up on garbage day.

The bathroom has actually gotten better. But not really. At one point when I built the 5FOOT long “portable” storage closet, I moved another dresser in there, course it didn’t fit. Course I left it there, partially bloking the doorway. I think other than the kitchen this is where alot of things are just dropped and forgotten. bathroomIts really not too bad in there, its just cluttered with alot of crap. And when its cluttered its hard to keep clean. But don’t worry the toilet, and the shower are clean.

The master bedroom, is not actuall all that bad. If we had bigger closets we wouldn’t need the portable closet. Course Crystal would say “If you didn’t hang up your t-shirts we wouldn’t need the portable closet either.” Other than that in there, the room is actually clean and somewhat organised. Yay us! One room, out of five is not oo bad right? master bedroomRight? Come on tell me its alright!

The last room, is the second bedroom, and as you can see, its alomst half clean. I mean I have my computer in there, and what you can’t see are all the dvds up agains a door. Course there is alot of crap. The broken 27″ tv, and the plastic tubs of clothes that will be given away. The chaise louge that we want to get rid of, the bed frame. second bedroomThe matresses. Course since we have no storage in the basement this turned into the storage room. I want to try and take it back and use it as my computer room, and Crystals sewing room.

What you can’t see are the boxes and boxes of stuff that we have given away on Freecycle. Its been great. There been like 2 boxes of movies, 2 boxes of books, a 10 gallon aquarium, a ferret cage, a lobster trap. Lots of stuff. So yeah we are making headway. I just want to keep up the rooms we already have clean and jump on the ones that we haven’t gotten to yet.


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