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It ain't over til the fat lady gets power
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Question raised by Ike: How do I get my catamaran out of that tree?

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Back of Lindsay's Apartments

Back of Lindsay's apartment after Ike. Her unit is okay, though.

A few days after a big hurricane - a week with no power now - you notice that everyone looks like shit. Like the downstairs carpet. A week with no power has a great democratizing effect on people.

Gilchrist, Texas after Hurricane Ike.

Gilchrist, Texas after Hurricane Ike.

Crystal Beach man rode out Ike on log

It's a story of survival that's hard to believe. A man rode out Hurricane Ike floating on debris and anything else he could grab.

He spoke exclusively to Eyewitness News about how he survived after his home was submerged in flood waters on Crystal Beach.

The scrapes and cuts don't even begin to tell the story of Mark Davidson.

"I went and got my dog dags and put them on in case I would die that night because it was getting that bad," said Davidson.

Davidson decided to ride the storm out in his home in Crystal Beach on Avenue D. It was a mistake the retired Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer would soon regret.

"And about that time I felt the back of the house, come up just like the stern of the ship and came down on the pilings pretty hard," said Davidson.

Around 1am Saturday morning, his house started taking in water and slowing drifting. By 2am, Davidson decided to get out. The former U.S. Navy diver would be tested to the limit.

"I swam out and as soon as I surfaced, I was level with the roof," he said. "The water was level with the roof."

For the next 14 hours, Davidson would do whatever it took to survive.

"When I was on the telephone pole, then I started looking around and see what was going on that's when I saw houses floating just like bumper boats, just crushing and ripping in half."

The telephone pole he was clinging to soon went under and Davidson knew he had to swim away from all the debris on Crystal Beach.

"Because that was going to crush and kill me," he said.

He began his journey through town using pieces of plywood to maneuver his way around. But it was a patio table he used as a boogie board that he says saved his life.

"I would not let that thing go for nothing," said Davidson.

For the next several hours, Davidson was drifting toward East Bay.

"It was like being dumped under water and then come up for a breath dumped under water, dumped under water and it was like that the entire evening," said Davidson.

But he endured the storm even after an encounter with an alligator and in the end found safety when he finally came ashore at Smith Point. Where the National Guard help rescue him.

"The one thing I was thinking is that I wanted to see my wife, my dog, my brothers and I have a lot of things to finish in this life," said Davidson. "I am not done yet."

Davidson says he is done living on the coast.

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Story posted 2008.09.20 at 09:10 PM CDT

Houston residents get what they need to stay or go

 

 

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Houston residents get what they need to stay or go

via chron.com Chronicle on 9/11/08

Residents across the Houston region scurried and scrounged Thursday stocking up on essentials from gasoline and batteries to water and peanut butter, everything needed to endure Hurricane Ike's arrival — or flee its path.

 

 

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Call Mid-Week for a More Believable "Sick Day" [Work]

 

 

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Call Mid-Week for a More Believable "Sick Day" [Work]

via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on 9/8/08

The Asylum blog compiles some solid advice on how to call in sick, even if you don't meet the traditional definition of "sick"—take that how you will. One of the best bits of advice involves the timing of your sick day, as noted by the editor of the Save the Assistants blog:

Pick a random Tuesday or Wednesday for your fake illness. At a lot of companies, there are mysterious sick waves on the day after a long weekend or on a really beautiful day in the summer. You can get away with that once in a while, but if you only come down with the flu on really beautiful Friday afternoons in the summer, everyone will be on to you. Taking off a day in the middle of the week will also make it less likely that you have 400 emails to sort through all at once when you come back from your elongated holiday.

Valid point, and the others are worth keeping in mind also. For more call-in tips, check out Keith's post on hacking your actual call. Photo by Perfecto Insecto.

How to Take a Sick Day When You're Not Sick [via Geeks Are Sexy]

 

 

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Mystery 'iPhone Girl' generates Internet intrigue

Mystery 'iPhone Girl' generates Internet intrigue

By MIN LEE – 2 days ago

HONG KONG (AP) — Who is the "iPhone Girl"?

Pictures of an Asian factory worker found on a new iPhone sold to a British customer have generated keen discussion on the Internet about her identity — and her fate.

The three pictures, posted on the Apple discussion Web site MacRumors.com, show a young Asian woman working on what appears to be an assembly line for iPhones.

Dressed in a pink striped outfit and hat and wearing white gloves with yellow fingertips, the young woman now known on the Web as the "iPhone Girl" is shown smiling and making victory signs as she poses next to an iPhone.

The MacRumors.com user who posted the photos last week, identified as only "markm49uk" from Kingston-upon-Hull, England, said in a posting that one of the pictures showed up on a new 3G iPhone when the iTunes program was launched.

News reports say the woman may work at a factory run by an Apple contractor, Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group, in the southern Chinese boomtown of Shenzhen.

Susan Eisenhower Leaves The Republican Party

I have decided I can no longer be a registered Republican. For the first time in my life I announced my support for a Democratic candidate for the presidency, in February of this year.

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Bear attacks inside Anchorage have people on edge

By MARY PEMBERTON, Associated Press Writer
Sat Aug 16, 1:41 PM ET

Even in a city whose logo is "Big Wild Life," the summer of 2008 is testing residents' tolerance for large carnivores.

The problem is bears, black bears and bigger grizzlies. So far this summer, three people have been mauled in the city.

Some people say humans are to blame for the confrontations and insist that no bears should be killed because of the attacks.

On the other side is a growing chorus of people like Devon Rees, who want something done about the big bruins.

"It is pretty much unsafe to walk around at night," he said.

McCain Cribs Speech From Wikipedia | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

McCain Cribs Speech From Wikipedia | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: "McCain Cribs Speech From Wikipedia

A Wikipedia editor claims that John McCain's speech about the Russian-Georgian hostilities was largely lifted from the website's entry on Georgia. What do you think?



Peter Tong,
Grocer
'Really? I'm going to go put my name in Wikipedia's 'Health Care' article and wait to see if I get mentioned in the debates.'



Blaine Principle,
Systems Analyst
'What a sorry way to treat the nation of Georgia, whose capital, Tbilisi, was featured in Splinter Cell for Xbox and PC.'




Carol Williams,
Quality Control Inspector
'I don't see what the big deal is. I ripped off Wikipedia when you guys asked me about that Kosher meatpacking plant the other day.'"

The best Chinese restaurant name ever

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Missing sex toys raise concerns at HPD property room

The Emperor is gone. So is Cyber Wabbit.Three years after Houston police seized these and hundreds of other sex toys worth $50,000 from the Adult Video Megaplexxx, the devices may be missing from the department's property room.

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Bizarre and Hilarious Signs (PICS)

Scratching of head required......and even then, it's no guarantee you'll figure out the real meaning behind these masterpieces of ambiguity. At least this signage provides much needed entertainment and comic relief on our all-too-stressful urban roads.

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McCain's Keating Five Scandal "Rivals Watergate"

A 1989 newspaper article written by Tom Fitzpatrick of the Phoenix New Times reflects the anger at the time over the Keating Five Scandal and particularly John McCain’s key role in it.

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McCain Website Scrubbed Own Article Calling Him A Celebrity

Pot calling the Kettle Black?

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Queen's Guitarist Publishes Astrophysics Thesis

The founder of the legendary rock band Queen, Brian May, has completed his doctoral thesis in astrophysics after taking a 30-year break to play some guitar.

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