Erika and I just got in, and we've got power, water, internet and TV! Now the cleanup starts - emptying the fridge & freezer, buying more food, recabling the home office after I ripped out the UPS's to power our phones, etc. I won't blog detailed info about Ike because we were among the lucky ones. I ...
At about 5:45AM this morning, we lost power. I'm on UPS power for now, but I'll probably shut things down in the next few minutes to save power. We're fine. Our apartment building is thick concrete and our windows face a side street with minimal exposure. We haven't had any water leaks at all. I feel so ...
This weekend, we changed our travel plans and headed back home to Houston instead of driving on out to California. We probably should have checked the maps a little more carefully - particularly this map: Tropical Storm Edaeiou(and sometimes y)rdo is heading right for ...
Hurricane rations, originally uploaded by BrentOzar.
It looks like Tropical Storm Ernesto is still bearing down directly on Miami. The chart hasn't changed much from yesterday, other than the strength dying down: I needed gas yesterday - more of a coincidence than hurricane preparation - and got a disturbing surprise. Everybody's making a run on ...
A few months back, Microsoft gave MVPs a few MSDN Ultimate subscriptions to pass on to community members, no strings attached. I quietly gave mine to a few deserving folks who I thought could be future MVPs, but Arnie Rowland (Blog – @ArnieRowland) had a better idea. Arnie’s Project Phoenix encourages developers to propose a [...]
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