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My phone line (as well as my DSL connection) went dead this afternoon. Thankfully DSL started working again a little while ago although the voice line is dead. When I called BellSouth they said a major trunk was damaged and it may not be repaired until Nov. 27. I don’t really care about the voice [...]

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I’m still getting lots of email about my random image theme, so I’ve added a lot more information here explaining how it works and how to modify it. I’ll probably add a link to that page somewhere.

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My mother has been in the hospital since she lost power after Wilma because she had difficulty breathing and needed oxygen. They had to drain fluid from her lungs, and when I visited Saturday, the doctor told me they found abnormal cells in the fluid. He still didn’t tell her.
Yesterday she had a CAT scan [...]

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Life is slowly getting back to normal after Wilma. My entire complex now has power and many traffic signals at major intersections are now working, but a lot are still out so driving can still be a bit of a challenge. The grocery stores are fully stocked so we can now buy food, and there [...]

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I lost my cell phone a few days ago when I was cleaning up the mess from Wilma, so I went shopping for a new one today. I ended up getting another Motorola V551 after looking at the Rokr and seeing how horribly slow it was and seeing that the Razr had no real advantages [...]

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In the last few days I’ve learned a lot more about lift stations than I ever wanted to know. We usually don’t think about where our waste goes until something goes wrong.
Our community has a lift station which pumps out to the city’s lift station, both of which run on electricity. Since the power [...]

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Fallen Tree

Originally uploaded by mike3k.

This is the worst damage we had from hurricane Wilma - a tree that fell on one of the buildings.

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I’ve been without power from 7AM on Monday Oct. 24 until 9:30AM today, Nov. 2 after Hurricane Wilma, which is why I haven’t posted anything in the last week. Luckily I didn’t have any damage and nobody here was injured. A few people had generators, but most of us gathered around the clubhouse every night [...]

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