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Aftermath
Category: Local • Personal
Posted on: September 5, 2006 1:40 PM, by PZ Myers
Just in case my wife happens to check out the internets this afternoon, I'm sure she'll be interested in seeing the state of her yard.
The plumbing crew came out this morning to repair our broken water main, and apparently to also plant a dead pagan king in a nice barrow outside our bathroom window, and imprint the rest of the lawn with interesting trackways. Oh, well, at least we now have fully restored water pressure.
I must also thank the kind reader who sent us the disaster preparedness and cleanup manuals. They'll come in handy—as you might guess, there's now a musty odor rising from our basement, and I don't think it's from the moldering dead king. His generosity was only exceeded by Governor Kathleen Blanco, who's flying up from New Orleans to give us some advice tonight.
Comments
No, no, no! Go with it, man. Knock out that window and put in a french door. The area below is ready for pavers! The King's barrow has now become a "berm" for planting something tall, for privacy! Don't you watch HGTV?
Posted by: itwasntme | September 5, 2006 2:57 PM
Baton Rouge, not New Orleans, I would think.
By the way, with about half the customers, New Orleans is pumping much more water than before, losing $250,000 a day to leaks. [Ground settling from the flooding wreaked havoc on city water pipes.] Not to mention the effect of low water pressure on fighting fires.
Posted by: fredy fredster | September 5, 2006 4:09 PM
Yowza. Has Tom Bombadil showed up to rescue you, yet?
Posted by: Dan | September 5, 2006 4:51 PM
Don't use the Ring! Side effects include stabbing pains.
Posted by: John Wilkins | September 5, 2006 8:18 PM
>...a dead pagan king in a nice barrow...
You are now in Middle-Earth.
Please break for Hobbits.
Posted by: James | September 6, 2006 1:26 AM
I would advise that you be alert for psychic manifestations, but can your life really get any stranger than it is already?
I mean... c'mon... CEPHALOPODS?
(smile)
Posted by: monstruoso | September 6, 2006 1:58 AM
I will probably regret this, but:
That's one heck of a job.
Posted by: Owlmirror | September 6, 2006 2:14 AM
If you call FEMA, maybe they'll give you a nice formaldehyde filled trailer!
Posted by: donna | September 6, 2006 2:32 AM
A reminder of New Orleans from the past thanks to Hullabaloo.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/
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September 6, 2006 7:03 AM
Are the tracks orientated toward the ecliptical rise of Sirius on your birthday?
Posted by: Martin Rundkvist | September 6, 2006 2:31 PM
Are you a real Minnesotan Test.
http://greengabbro.net/static/mnpurity.php
If you go to the home page of the Minnesota Ring, you can get a lot of jokes and stuff.
Posted by: bernarda | September 7, 2006 4:46 AM