Just reading about Ike online...

From the NY Times: A couple were surveying the damage (not much to their home), "... it would have been much easier had the city not turned off the water and gas... We understand that they needed to take precautions but I need a cup of coffee something vicious and the toilet needs flushing..."

So, the city should have left the water lines open to contamination, and left the gas available for a holocaust, just so a couple of dimwits who didn't have the foresight to collect some water and a small stove could have coffee and flush the toilet!

Sue

That about says it all. They pay for those utilities, but when they need them most they get turned off, how inconsiderate. Then again, listen to the stories about fires that start and can't be fought because there is no access.

There's plenty of water outside (flooding conditions and there's no water?) to flush the toilet, and pocket sized camp stoves can boil water for that morning jolt just fine. Uh oh, no electricity -- how will they grind the beans?

This from a dispatch: South of Galveston, authorities said 67-year-old Ray Wilkinson was the only resident who didn't evacuate from Surfside Beach, population 800. He was drunk and waving when authorities reached him on Saturday morning.

"He kinda drank his way through the night," Mayor Larry Davison said.


He's obviously one of us.

Drinking your "way through the night" is not a good survival attribute. It's only time for that AFTER you know you're in the clear and all is good. Until then all I drink is water and coffee.

Oh. Well, some garden hoses are probably stronger than a lot of the "rope" some people use for things they shouldn't. Still ain't gonna hold a car tho...

It only needs to hold it long enough to fill with water

Gawrsh! We musta collected 50 gallons in everything we had, for use as grey water. The water pressure did get down to nothing, but its back now.

My daughter said "Daddy, Mommy showed me a magic trick, she poured a bucket of water in the toilet and it flushed!" Apparently, that other lady would have felt it was magic also. Except, my daughter is six. I wish I coulda run into those people and sold them some special organic toilet flushing water... that I collected from their gutter downspout. I betcha they woulda bought it.

Anyway we survived, no major damage. No electricity, but those who are prepared have ways

Pretty stupid aren't they, not to mention self centered.

Coffee? Coffee? You are hereby remanded to remedial drinking 101, head professor, Blast.

BTDT, puked on the T-shirt