[Coco] Eye of Ike approaching my home

[Roger Taylor]

At 04:12 PM 9/13/2008, you wrote:
>Rog,
>I think UPS is trying to compete too much with the post office
>"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night".
>Dude, stay safe, our prayers are with you. The Dallas arfea just 
>started getting rain about 2PM. I'm a skywatcher here for one of the 
>tv stations, and there was no rain overnight, I wa sup all night at 
>work keeping an ear open for falling raindrops,lol.
>Karl

For that job I'd have to at least reserve the right to bust into the 
tv station's lounge any time I feel like it and pour me a big cup'a 
joe with all the trimmings.
I'd play them out.. bring photos of some falling rain and while 
they're musing over them I'm at the coffee maker making another 
batch, checking their fridge for goodies, etc.

My power just came back on about 2 hours ago, but hundreds of 
thousands aren't so lucky yet.  The power loss occurred for my area 
right as the "eye" area of the storm hit, but even long before and 
after we were still getting terrible gusts of wind in all 
directions.  In once instance a burst of wind so big came through 
that the trees which were full of water got hit from above I guess 
because they all kind blew apart and the air was filled with a huge 
cloud of water all the way down the road..  me and the son dove into 
the house in fear it was a tornado, then it just went away real quick 
to dead silence before coming back a minute later.

Anyway, it's over and I have lots of tree debree everywhere but 
nothing else to complain about I guess.  I'm grabbing the rakes right now.