Comments on: Coming home to Hurricane Ike

By: Wine, Women & Hurricane Ike: Being Thankful | another wine blog

Wine, Women & Hurricane Ike: Being Thankful | another wine blog — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:02:43 +0000

[...] But monetary damage is not the only measure of the storm’s destruction. Whole communities were wiped from the map. Galveston Island, which had been experiencing somewhat of a renaissance with fabulous new restaurants and wine bars, will take years to recover. Up to this point we had avoided seeing the worst of the catastrophic devastation visited upon our Gulf Coast community. There are still merely frames where signs used to be. And blue tarps still cover many a roof. These are small reminders of that harrowing night our family spent huddled, or as they say in Texas, “hunkered down” in the closet of my friend Meryl, who had loaned her house for our evacuation. Joe mentioned her in his post Coming Home to Hurricane Ike. [...]

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:50:58 +0000

Hey Mike, sorry for not responding. I don't hit MySpace much anymore. There are too many malicious gremlins hanging out there these days. It may be the most insecure site going these days. Considering the scummy wingnut douchebag that owns it, small wonder.

Thanks for checking in with me!

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:50:58 +0000

Thanks for checking in with me!

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:50:58 +0000

Thanks for checking in with me!

By: Michael Cole

Michael Cole — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:02:03 +0000

Hey Joe, after not hearing back from you I came here to see if you were back to your blog.

Good to hear that you made it through relatively unscathed!

Enjoyed your analogy of the light getting in.

BTW, love Leonard Cohen.