Posted in Living on Sep 30th, 2005 1 Comment »
I finally downloaded the hurricane photos from the digital camera and here’s Dorothea without her aft deck roof:
Fortunately, we found the roof under the marina’s little work barge:
The radar antenna is upside down, under the water, with a busted housing. Not even Raytheon could create a radar antenna that could withstand the corrosion setting in […]
Posted in Living on Sep 28th, 2005 Comments Off
President Bush has called for us to conserve fuel, which is a nice idea despite the fact his trip to the Energy Department to give the speech required an inordinate number of gas-guzzling vehicles, as reported in the Houston Chronicle blog.
But while that made me smile (I appreciate irony), I got to thinking seriously about […]
Posted in Living on Sep 27th, 2005 No Comments »
Life after Rita
I got in touch with the marina harbormaster who told me that Dorothea suffered only having her aft deck roof torn off. She’s floating, and that’s the important part.
So dSO and I have been driving around Austin, heading northwest on the winding and beautiful FM 1421, stopping at a wildlife refuge to walk and take […]
Posted in Living on Sep 23rd, 2005 Comments Off
We got up early this morning and discovered Houston’s roads were empty so we bailed as soon as we’d helped our friends bring in their plants and patio furniture. We headed northwest to Austin to another friend’s house, and encountered very little traffic other than in the bustling burg of Giddings, where the traffic slowed […]
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