I feel safe in saying, unless there's some NOOlers in the panhandle or (god forbid) Alabama, I'm the only one who was affected by Ivan when it came ashore and kept going on further. Boy was that fun! 
We got a shitload of rain about 6:30 last night, and were under a tornado watch until 3 A.M. Actually, we may have been clear long before that, but I had no way of knowing: At 9:30, the power went out for the whole town 
Trust me when I say being stuck in a dark house with the uncertainty of how much time has passed and whether your part of the state is no longer under a tornado watch is pretty fucking awful. Just try going to sleep when the rain and wind is roaring outside.
But eventually things calmed down...not that I would know, because I passed out and woke up some hours later (11 A.M.). Our town actually got by okay; another town a few miles away got the tornado.
So I'm just hoping the hurricane season is over, but it's probably not. And the power came back on, so I get to watch P.J. O'Rourke on "Real Time with Bill Maher" tonight. At any rate, I'm just glad to be here.......................................(chunk of ceiling falls, ironically killing me just as I'm beginning to appreciate life again. Sure, I may have no chance for a love life, but I can still jerk myself. But now I'm dead 
)
; anyways I cannot imagine how people have been able to cope with these hurricanes this year. The only awful natural occurrence I have had to deal with was the Northridge earthquake, but even then I was 60 or so miles away from the epicenter at the time (some of my relative were less than 5 miles away and their tv's fell to the ground and exploded along with all their other furniture). I prefer earthquakes anyways, at least I do not have to fret for the few days before it comes, for I have no f'ing clue it's about to come; this year millions have had to nearly get ulcers (such as the people in New Orleans [or Nahrlihns]) worrying about this shitty weather.
