[tcb] Re: AFTERMATH OF RITA!!!!
- From: "Gerald V. Livingston II" <gvl2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:03:19 -0500 (CDT)
I'm here. We have about 3/4 of the servers back up on a 5KW generator.
They're still talking several weeks before power is restored. No A/C, no
lights until we get the bigger generator in here. My email is a little
hosed because I have my mail server offline and am working directly from
my sysmatrix mail boxes. It doesn't sort messages as neatly as my setup so
I'm bouncing around a bit.
The servers may go offline for a few minutes once or twice a day when I
refuel the generator. They WILL go offline for a little while when we get
the larger generator in here, hopefully later tonight. We're hoping to
have enough online to be able to accept new customers again in a few days.
Phones, including the local dial-up access numbers in our area are working
fine. Anybody with a generator or a laptop and a way to recharge it (car)
in the affected areas will be able to connect through us until things like
DSL and cable start coming back up.
Computing by kerosene lantern. Running my laptop from an inverter hooked
to the battery I pulled from the Rivi until we put the big gen in and I
can move it to the power outlets. Laptop was never intended for primary
use so I never bothered to get a good battery for it.
Drove about 100 miles NW (a little north of Lufkin) yesterday to buy fuel.
The lines here are about 4 hours long so that was almost faster. If I can
be sure I can get back in here I'll probably be doing that once a week or
so. The boss' wife's mini-van only uses about 8 gallons of fuel for the
trip so it doesn't add to our cost significantly.
Jefferson county, where my house is located, is still locked down. No
entry allowed. I left at least a month's worth of food/water down for the
cats and opened up the upstairs for them. There are no trees around my
house and there was no flooding reported so it, and they, should be OK.
They won't open up the county until basic services (water/sewer primarily)
are restored. Another week or two at least.
Some pictures:
http://www.putfile.com/phorce01/
G2
On Mon, September 26, 2005 20:02, Dan Martin said:
> A columnist in the paper here has started calling it "Reporter Fear
> Factor"
> AND
> You sent this from the server at Gerald's work?
> I had been getting "bounce" e mail from you and Gerald's accounts.
> Did they get the power on in Silsbee?
>
> On Sep 26, 2005, at 7:40 PM, Bob Perring wrote:
>
>> Yes, but those weather announcers are so brave - standing out there
>> amidst all that tin, sand, lumber, shingles, glass, pine cones,
>> neon signs, stuff !
>>
>> Truly, heroes in harm's way, addressing the nation,
>> not even thinking about using a remote camera for safety's sake.
>>
>> Yes, even hoping we don't think about their not thinking about
>> thinking about remote cameras.
>>
>> Just a thought, I was thinking.
>>
>>
>> At 16:18 9/25/2005, Denis Dodson wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I would never make light of Sammie's or Gerald's situation
>>> or any who were actually in the true path of Rita. And I have to
>>> say that Katrina caused incredible damage. But I am getting pretty
>>> weary of the shrill pitch of the TV news guys who scream that
>>> there will be nothing but death and destruction, if you don't
>>> watch TV 24 hours of the day you won't know that it's under your
>>> bed and YOU WILL DIE AND YOUR CHILDREN WILL DIE!
>>>
>>> I worked on my bus to get ready for the Tulsa show but didn't go
>>> because the weather people convinced me that, even if I got to
>>> Tulsa, I would be caught in the torrential rain and not be able to
>>> get back for days. We got 3/4 of an inch.And I missed a gathering
>>> that I was told was a good show less than two hours from my house.
>>>
>>> I am bitter.
>>>
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