I have let my paid membership lapse and am pretty much using LJ just to follow some comms and a few close friends, so I have trimmed my F-list way back. I felt awkward at seeing people's locked posts, and I didn't want to trim the list without saying something.

I uploaded some pics and a vid from a health care reform event in Austin, TX, on Saturday. This is in Rep. Lloyd Doggett's district, so the crowd was overwhelmingly pro-reform. We had to leave before Lloyd spoke but the anti-reform people were polite for the most part (except for the smarmy guy with the loudspeaker).

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Our nation has elected our first black President.

KHOU has a page listing aerial videos of Ike damage in Galveston, the Bolivar Peninsula, and parts of Houston. Go here.

I feel ill.

http://blogs.chron.com/hurricanes/2008/09/generators_carbon_monoxide_kil.html

This is close to where one of my sister lives. From a Houston Chronicle slideshow of photos submitted by readers.

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Full restoration may take a month. Refineries are evaluating the damage; Houston/Baytown represents 22 percent of the refining capacity of the U.S.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6000349.html

Houston cell phone service is real patchy right now so I can't get thru to my folks. Also, they can't find their car cell phone charger. :/
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KHOU has streaming video available hereOver 2 million Centerpoint Energy customers alone are out of power ( Read more... )

Yes, he's fixed. He's also a pervert.