[Overtaxed]

My heart goes out to those folks who lost their homes, lost their possessions and are now being kept from getting back to them until ‘authorities’ will permit them in. That’s my mini-rant.

That's one reason they have a hard time evacuating the Outer Banks when a hurricane's coming. People don't want to be kept out of their properties for weeks after.

[Corin Stormhands]

That's one reason they have a hard time evacuating the Outer Banks when a hurricane's coming. People don't want to be kept out of their properties for weeks after.

After Isabel, my brother and his wife went to Nags Head because they had power there and not here. He said the only people allowed back on the island were property owners and beer trucks. :-)