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September 2004
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Images from the end of my street…submerged.
Those are mailboxes peeking up.
Where my street ends and the river begins. That’s Sligh in the distance.
http://ng3bcc.VOTEorNOT.org
Still no power as of noon. I saw a truck in the neigborhood though. According to TECO they’ve been working on my problem since at least 5:30 last night when I called. BULLSHIT! I can see the lines down and there hasn’t been a truck at it. There wasn’t at 5:30. There wasn’t at 8. And the person who told me that it should be back last night casue it said “crew working” (when I could clearly see there wasn’t) should be fired!
Okay. I’m done for now.
At least I can steal the neighbors bandwidth. People should learn to encrypt their wireless networks.
No power. Been up since 4am. Came to work at 6:45am cause they have power, only to find there’s no internet. Got that back aroun 10am. Can’t work cause I can’t authenticate with the domain in Sarasota. Starting to discuss workarounds.
1PM now…things back to normal at work. Except that my brain turned off about 11:30.
So, I’m not an overly paranoid person, but I am cautious. When there’s a hurricane heading towards Florida, I get a little on edge. I want to make sure I’m prepared. When it’s heading for the east coast, I don’t get quite as nervous as when it’s heading straight for Tampa, but I still get prepared. I don’t understand the people who’s attitude is…
“If it comes here, it’ll be severely weakened”…That’s true, it will…it will be a Category 2 instead of a 4.
I don’t’ get too concerned about tropical storms, but a Cat2 hurricane still is dangerous. Why don’t people listen to warnings? The arrogance is amazing.
Okay, so there’s no fire, but if the alarm went off are you a dedicated employee willing to sacrifice your life if there really is? Apparently most of the people in my building are. The fire alarms have gone off twice this morning. Both times there was a total of about 10 people who actually evacuated. When we told people arriving for work that the alarms had gone off they said, “Damn”, and went inside.
This is a baffling behavior to me. I value my life. I’m happy that I get to wake up each morning. Is depression so bad that all these people just don’t care? Or are they that dedicated to their jobs? Do I risk being fired now for not being dedicated enough?
Someone explain this to me. I’d evacuate 200 times if the alarm went off and they didn’t tell me immediately it was a false alarm. I don’t want to regret that one time when it was for real.