Welcome to Freerepublic!. Thank you for the info. You should post more often!
Thanks for the welcome! I was on the Hurricane Rita threads as my first foray into actually posting. Told everyone I think of all y'all as rock stars, because I haven't spoken up and y'all aren't shy about it!
It was my birthday and I thought I was probably going to die in the hurricane (not to be melodramatic or anything), so I thought it important that I go out as a real FReeper.
(Didn't even lose power, much less get any flying debris. Didn't actually get the hurricane at all--but I didn't know that 12 hours before!)