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Sunday, September 25, 2005
VideoBlog & H.G Wells - The Door In The Wall, More Katrina Stuff

My thoughts on next week,
what I've been up to.
This is my VideoBlog for today

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Book for today....

H.G Wells - The Door in the Wall & Other Stories

More from H.G Wells, one book a day for a week, here is the Project Gutenberg text version which you can do as you please with it's out of copyright....

Rita largely spared New Orleans but not the wetlands. A.P Photo

The eye of the storm
CNN reports - CNN
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Galveston resident Sharion Jordan waits in line with her dog Benji as she hopes to return home just outside the causeway leading to Galveston, TX., Saturday, Sept. 24, 2005 after Hurricane Rita passed. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

A truck with a message painted on it lies buried in a ditch alongside a road in Bay St. Louis, Miss. Saturday, Sept. 24, 2005. People continue to clean up from the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Tiki Island, Texas resident Denise Zeon waits in the car with her dogs, Snoopy and Princess, to return home Saturday, Sept. 24, 2005 after Hurricane Rita passed. The Galveston area was not seriously damaged by Rita. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Swirling flood waters of Lake Charles surround an entrance to the Harrah's casinos in Lake Charles, La., following landfall of Hurricane Rita Saturday, Sept. 24, 2005.. (AP (Photo/Ric Feld)

Darlene Pelaez,left, of Beaumont, Texas, stands frustrated outside a Walgreens in Lufkin, Texas, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2005. As Hurricane Rita made landfall and decreased in strength many residents and evacuees sought supplies at local stores. (AP Photo)

Motorists try to get fuel from a pump with a "out of gas" sign attached in Lufkin, Texas, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2005. After Hurrican Rita made landfall and decreased in strength residents and evacuees sought fuel and supplies. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

See the damage on Interstate 10
from Hurricane Rita - CNN
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Charlie

hewitt.mobi Posted at 8:01 am | 3 comments

3 Comments:

Wow! I got a surprise when you actually said my name! Cool.
Thanks for your well wishes about my friend..she's OK. She wrote to me yesterday and today telling me all the stuff her and her kids went through. It was scary. She said that the city expects to take 3 weeks until all the blown over trees are cleared from the roads. Until then, it's like playing "Dodge 'em!".

Hope you don't mind, but some unsolicited advice in the video blog...SMILE every once in awhile..you are sooooo serious!
Like the close up though....and the afghan or blanket on the back of the chair..looks kind of homemade....nice colors...
yeah, I notice things like that :-)

I hope mother nature gives the US time to dry out now...Where I live, it will be the winter months that will worry me. Predicted to be COLD! And with heating oil prices as high as they are...should be interesting to say the least.

Have an awesome day!

By Michele, at 6:04 pm

Hi Michele,

I take your point about remembering to 'smile' perhaps I am a bit too serious.

Good to hear your friends OK. Yes It is scary. With luck we will all make it through the winter.

I worry about the fuel prices here they have already gone up, some 17% so far. Hope you don't have too chilly a winter ;-) .

I think barring any other disasters, there should be time to get prepared for winter with fuel etc.

Take care....

Charlie xxx

By hewitt.mobi, at 11:48 pm

Hi Jay,

Yes I've just looked at your post, I agree with what you say. Obviously some Americans thought otherwise ;-), the debate is good though, hopefully things will be different next time.

The true level of poverty in the US & the UK is often hidden, to be exposed as recently by the Hurricanes in the US.

That the administration in the US were slow to respond does not suprise me, to a certain extent I think it's due to the federal system the US has.

It upsets me that in this day & age that in a country with the wealth of the US that there are so many people living in such abject poverty, it's wrong.

Thanks for dropping by again :-).....

Charlie xxx

By hewitt.mobi, at 12:00 am