Hey!
Leo Sgouros
Nawlins-anyone heard from him?
--
"When I come home late at night
don't ask me where I've been
just count your stars I'm home again"
don wheeler
> Don is still here, and believe it or not I forgot Joe lives outside
> Nawlins-anyone heard from him?
>
Jose was here (in aps) shortly hafter Katrina and was relatively ok.
I think he would be greatly taxed however in assisting others being so
close to it all.
Bill seems to have talked to him so check with him.
Speaking of silver tongues.... Bill has been scarce around these parts
recently..................
don
Leo Sgouros
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Its probably all the traffic-I had to killfile about a dozen "entities"
Bill Cleere
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> "don wheeler" <donwh...@optonline.net> wrote in message
> news:vuW_e.1180$Xq....@fe11.lga...
>> Leo Sgouros wrote:
>>
>>> Don is still here, and believe it or not I forgot Joe lives outside
>>> Nawlins-anyone heard from him?
>>>
>> Jose was here (in aps) shortly hafter Katrina and was relatively ok.
>> I think he would be greatly taxed however in assisting others being so
>> close to it all.
>>
>> Bill seems to have talked to him so check with him.
>> Speaking of silver tongues.... Bill has been scarce around these parts
>> recently..................
>> don
I haven't heard from Joe. I looked at the Lafayette paper online and
it seems they got pretty much standard hurricane damage, so he may
be fixing his roof or whatnot, but I don't think there was anything
catastrophic there, although they came close.
Funny....Lafayette is just about dead center in between the tracks
of the two 'canes.
> Its probably all the traffic-I had to killfile about a dozen "entities"
Well, *I* could hardly be ducking the traffic, since I'm responsible
in one way or the other for most of the crossposting that makes
its way in here.
Hanging about with riffraff.....I think you're familiar with the
concept, Leo.
-- Bill Cleere
"I prefer the pleasure of writing bits of nonsense to that of wearing
an embroidered coat which costs 800 francs." (Stendahl)
Leo Sgouros
riff raff
I was takin a bath
long about a Saturday night
a post post, just relaxing in the group
thinkin everythin was all right
well I stepped out the group
and put my mind somewhere else
I wrapped the sillyness around me
and I come back to post
riff raff and I jumped into the group
well how was I to know there such posting goin on...
They was a trollin and rollin, pokin anda jokin
carryin on just like we did in the past...
Bing BANG well I saw the whole thing
postin in my old local froup...
"Bill Cleere" <bcl...@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote in message
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JER
says...
The rurricanes missed us. Rita was worse here, but mostly blustery
winds, no major limb damage. I've only heard of minor roof damage in
the city. But north and south of here, things were pretty bad. ONe of
my students brought by pictures of her house; it looked like it was
sitting right on the edge of a lake. It will have to be gutted. Thing
is, most of my students who were affected by the storm seem to be more
worried about their school-work than about their houses.
My brother and a friend of mine, and their wives spent some time
after Katrina with me. Then with Rita, my lady-friend evacutaed from
Houston with her two kids and her ex. An interesting night. It took
her about 16.5 hrs. to get here, a trip than normally takes 3.5 hrs. Her
ex and the kids went on to Baton Rouge, and lost electric power before
we did. We went about 36hrs without juice, and were damn glad to have
the ac on after that 95-100 degree heat. (AC is what makes this part of
the world liveable; if it werent for that, we'd have to abandon the
palce to snakes and oilmen.) when Mary drove back to Houston she had to
go through Lake Charles, and though the city was not open and she
couldn't get off the interstate, she said that the damage there was
immense, stretching all the way from Jennings to Beaumont, a distance of
about a hundred or so miles. Things are returning to normal chez moi,
but there are plenty of evacuees here in Lafayette, and the traffic is
horrible. Phones haven't worked well either, especially the cell phones.
I have volunteered to work with the people at the shelter two days
recently -- at our Cajundome arena -- and it's heartbreaking to see. So
many people who will be years getting their lives back together. If
ever.
One of my brothers, Paul, in NO has/had a house near the
lakefront. It got about 5 ft of water and is probably a total loss.
He's planning to go back and rebuild. My other brother, Robert, and the
friend who stayed with me live in the Uptown area which did not flood.
They are planning to go back soon to see how liveable the city is. From
what I can hear, the problem is that most of the grocery stores are
still closed. In their neighborhood, though, there's water (though not
yet drinkable), sewer and electricity. But Robert owns some rental
properties, and we don't know much about their condition now.
I've been blogging -- mostly just linking to other article, but a
few pictures from myself and others, and a few thoughts. I started it
because I was angry that the Bushies and Brownies were blaming all the
problems on the Louisiana officials. Most of that is, as you would
suspect, just covering up the Federal ass (there are as many complaints
about FEMA coming out of Texas as there were for Rita.) If you want,
click on joefromla.blogspot.com
Leo Sgouros
"JER" <rea...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>> Leo Sgouros wrote:
>>
>> > Don is still here, and believe it or not I forgot Joe lives outside
>> > Nawlins-anyone heard from him?
<snip<
>>
> Thanks for asking.
> The rurricanes missed us. Rita was worse here, but mostly blustery
> winds, no major limb damage. I've only heard of minor roof damage in
> the city. But north and south of here, things were pretty bad. ONe of
> my students brought by pictures of her house; it looked like it was
> sitting right on the edge of a lake. It will have to be gutted. Thing
> is, most of my students who were affected by the storm seem to be more
> worried about their school-work than about their houses.
Good grief.Are you :the wonder professor or something?
> My brother and a friend of mine, and their wives spent some time
> after Katrina with me. Then with Rita, my lady-friend evacutaed from
> Houston with her two kids and her ex. An interesting night. It took
> her about 16.5 hrs. to get here, a trip than normally takes 3.5 hrs. Her
> ex and the kids went on to Baton Rouge, and lost electric power before
> we did. We went about 36hrs without juice, and were damn glad to have
> the ac on after that 95-100 degree heat. (AC is what makes this part of
> the world liveable; if it werent for that, we'd have to abandon the
> palce to snakes and oilmen.) when Mary drove back to Houston she had to
> go through Lake Charles, and though the city was not open and she
> couldn't get off the interstate, she said that the damage there was
> immense, stretching all the way from Jennings to Beaumont, a distance of
> about a hundred or so miles. Things are returning to normal chez moi,
> but there are plenty of evacuees here in Lafayette, and the traffic is
> horrible. Phones haven't worked well either, especially the cell phones.
> I have volunteered to work with the people at the shelter two days
> recently -- at our Cajundome arena -- and it's heartbreaking to see. So
> many people who will be years getting their lives back together. If
> ever.
God.I cant stand seeing it on TV.To see it...I cant image it.
> One of my brothers, Paul, in NO has/had a house near the
> lakefront. It got about 5 ft of water and is probably a total loss.
> He's planning to go back and rebuild.
Was it anything to do with those levees, or the lake overflowed?
He might want to wait until they install the levee upgrade patch, hopefully
not a Microsloth "update"
My other brother, Robert, and the
> friend who stayed with me live in the Uptown area which did not flood.
> They are planning to go back soon to see how liveable the city is. From
> what I can hear, the problem is that most of the grocery stores are
> still closed. In their neighborhood, though, there's water (though not
> yet drinkable), sewer and electricity. But Robert owns some rental
> properties, and we don't know much about their condition now.
> I've been blogging -- mostly just linking to other article, but a
> few pictures from myself and others, and a few thoughts. I started it
> because I was angry that the Bushies and Brownies were blaming all the
> problems on the Louisiana officials. Most of that is, as you would
> suspect, just covering up the Federal ass (there are as many complaints
> about FEMA coming out of Texas as there were for Rita.) If you want,
> click on joefromla.blogspot.com
>
I will.
I am glad you're ok, even if ya gotta rough it.
DHS , our vaunted homeland response saviour, crashed and burned.
Who thinks yet another block of Beaucracy in the ladder will be effective,
like DHS?
I would have like3d to see them deal with a nerve gas attack, as simple
weather was more than they seemed to able to handle.
However,
1)They were never put to the test
2)They claimed to have had their act together for Rita-of course, media
spooks-persons can say anything,
Good luck, and check in when you can.
Poka
Vsego nailuchshego.Ne boley. Bud'zdorova.
Oel
Bill Cleere
So you've gone off to blogging too....
Sigh...
Anyway, I'm glad you're well, as I suspected. It looked like, if one had
drawn a line between the Rita and Katrina landfalls and bisected it, the
midpoint line would have gone right through Lafayette. Is that right?
Damn lucky!