[lodwick]

Not a word, heard here, TO.

Check in, when you can, SL.

[Timeout]

Good morning, everyone.

This LA Times photo made me laugh out loud. They call it "cutting edge prefab"..."decidely hip".

I think it looks like a house in Florida after Hurrican Charley passed through. Judge for yourself:

LOL!

[pubmom]

I have a great hurricane story for you. Yesterday we spoke with a co-worker of ours who has been living in Venice, Florida with her mom. Usually, they only winter there, but for some reason they decided to stay there until next spring.

Anyway, because they were in a retirement community comprised of homes of the mobile variety, they were evacuated and sent to a shelter. It turned out that shelter was not exactly the place to be, unless you're a storm chaser type.

When it became obvious the storm was going to make a direct hit, she remembered something her father had told her years ago, go to an interior room. She took her mom and herself to the bathroom, she strapped her mom to the toilet and she fastened herself to the pipes just above and weighted herself with an 80 pound backpack full of survival gear and her mom's medications. When the hurricane hit, it ripped the roof off the sports center and actually pulled her into the air. If she had no tethered and weighted herself, she would have been injured or worse. The bleachers in the sport's center collapsed at some point during this, and from what I understand, people were trapped.

And the trailer park where they lived?
Undamaged.