OT: A friend in New Orleans...

I have been watching the mess in New Orleans. I have an Air force buddy
Airline pilot who lives there.

He lives in New Orleans in a three floor house, they are on the 2nd and 3rd
floors now. They did not leave fast enough, so they got stuck.


Their car is now in the street under water. So much for the BMW suv.
Luckily they have Direcway, and is using his Vonage internet phone to make
calls. Works ok. His equipment is being powered from a small generator
they had in their garage they bought for the last hurricane threat.


Between the 15 gallons of gas they had for the mower and generator and the
other cans of gasoline they rummaged up from neighbors, they have enough gas
to run their generator for a few hours a day to keep the refrigerator
running and keeping the UPSs for their computers and LCD TV charged.


For water they have 2 - 1 gallon Brita filters and a few hundred bottles of
water they had in their garage. They have a case (24) of Brita filters from
Costco. He has a bunch of camping gear including a blow up raft. I used to
make fun of him for being a "yuppie" with all that bottled water, but a few
hundred at a couple a day for 2 people only lasts for a couple of months at
a time.


The only thing is the toilet has to have a bucket of water poured in when
they have to use it. I don't know how long this is going to last, since I
think the sewers may not work for long.

I just talked with him, his sat phone works fine too! He just inflated his
raft.


It is sickening.

At least he was prepared. Must be the AF survival school ... :)



Ed


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