you gonna be here when Ike comes?

i lived in houston when alicia hit and was in new orleans when camille took out biloxi, plus i have been in several other minor hurricanes and can tell you that a hurricane is one of nature's real barnburners or barnflooders as the case may be. last night i was in touch with friends in houston up until midnight their time and they said ike was bad but not as bad as alicia.

when alicia hit, we lived about 50 miles from the coast and the winds blew out some of our taped windows, knocked down our wooden fence, took shingles off the roof and flooded the house from the rain coming in through the broken windows. our two great danes were in the front room and because they were scared, they shit in the front room. so we awoke to floating doo doo and mosquitoes. power was out, the heat was oppressive and i had a bad case of the flu. it was miserable to say the least.

which all brings me to the people who were "playing in the ocean" yesterday off the beaches in galveston and who were swept out to sea. HOW FUCKING STUPID CAN YOU BE?! then the coast guard had to risk lives to save their sorry asses.

*as the swimmers were pulled out of the water they were polled on their political preferences, and of the 60, 58 were voting for mc cain, 1 for barr and 1 didn't know there was an election. so, i guess that answers my above question.