Anyone know anyone in Southern California (or elsewhere who can do something useful) who can help save this woman's adorable cats from being killed just because she is losing her house? They look so sweet, and are all indoor cats and it is heartbreaking to think they are likely to die (bad enough they will lose the person who loves them) for awful ( Read more... )

Amusing pagan variant of a burglar having the fear of (a)god put into him (and a first-floor over in the UK is our 2nd floor, IIRC--feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).

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My house made it through fine! The pecan tree and rose bush look a bit battered, but no major limbs off (there are even a few pecans left on one side). The worst wind in my neighborhood did not come from the direction I expected, so my house was mostly sheltered, while some of my neighbors got wind damage. We will need to replace the gate latch ( Read more... )

Every time I think I've come to terms with the fact that I'm highly unlikely to still have a house or any of my stuff not in the car, some stray thought about yarn or Halloween shirts or all sorts of weird random shit will cross my mind and remind me of the stuff I've left behind and freaks me out again. So I watch the TV coverage as the damned ( Read more... )

We have arrived in Richardson. I have to take the cats to the vets in a few hours *sigh* (seems to be a evacuation tradition, but luckily for not nearly as horrid a reason--we stopped at my Dad's last night and the cats picked up hitchhikers, courtesy of my Dad's dog (who wasn't even there)).

Being leery of the hurricane forecasts and the presence of our homes in the storm surge zones of southern Harris County, tygerr, his cub, my two cats and I are fleeing to my father's house in Conroe tonight (he's getting someone to dog-sit his cat-hating pooch for tonight) and then joining what will undoubtedly be a huge exodus of folks heading towards ( Read more... )

Some of you undoubtedly already know how much I loathe the whole Noah's Ark story from the Bible (I find much of the Old Testament to be a tale of a cruel, vindictive psychopath and even as a kid I couldn't figure out why anyone would want anything to do with this dude, much less worship him) and some few of you have undoubtedly heard my rant on ( Read more... )

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