Hurricane Education: What I've learned after Hurricane Ike . . .
1. Frozen dinners and pot pies can be cooked on a BBQ grill.
2. No matter how many times you flick the switch, lights don't work without electricity.
3. My truck gets 16.21675 miles per gallon, EXACTLY (you can ask the people in line at the gas station who helped me push it).
4. Cats are even more irritating without power.
5. There are a lot more stars in the sky than most people thought.
6. TV is an addiction and the withdrawal symptoms are painful.
7. There are a lot of dang trees around here.
8. Flood plane drawings on some mortgage documents were seriously wrong..
9. People will get into a line that has already formed without having any idea what the line is for.
10. When required, a car will float, doesn't steer well but floats just the same.
11. 27 of your neighbors are fed from a different transformer than you, and they are quick to point that out!
12. Clothes hampers were not made to contain such a volume.
13. If I had a store that sold only ice, chainsaws, gas and generators... I'd be rich.
14. Price of a can of soup rises 200% in a storm.
15. Mayor Bill White knows a few cuss words. (Ask the FEMA worker in charge of the distribution point that didn't send the supply trucks out on time when the Mayor showed up for an inspection. Bill's gonna have to explain that one to his Sunday School students)
16. Linemen sleep in their trucks (So they can keep their per diem money. With regular and overtime pay that's about $8,000 a paycheck....NET! Sweet.)
17. Your relatives in other places have more fun than you do after a hurricane. Hurricane? What hurricane?
18. Fallen trees and damaged buildings everywhere just don't look weird anymore.
19. Spam is really not that bad!
20. I hate chainsaws!
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