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To: SunSunM who wrote (37810)	9/24/2005 1:10:15 AM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Glad to hear your story. From the TV coverage so far it looks like Houston gets spared except for power outages but power outages can be a pain in the butt as well as deadly if it's hot enough. Last time we had a hurricane through here, there was minimal damage except for the fact that some of my friends and family had no power for up to two-three weeks. There were some houses on the Eastern shore and near the Chesapeake in central Maryland which flooded seriously but with no loss of life. It was, of course, summer, hot, humid and everyone lost pretty much everything in their freezer and fridge. You couldn't find ice anywhere and after a week or so people started to get sick from eating spoiled food. I remember the other side effect that friends complained about was that they couldn't even have a romantic candle light dinner (nice thing to do when you have no TV) because of the sound of all the generators in the neighborhood. We didn't have a generator back then but our power was restored within a day, long before most everyone else's. We have a generator now.