Thursday, September 22, 2005
This will be fast...this week has been really busy, and for a change I have not found myself at my computer for a couple hours an evening, not to mention I have been trying to go to bed earlier...all resulting in less posts. Next week should calm down, or so I hope! So here are the highlights of the last few days.
A monster hurricane is bearing down on the Texas coast. Millions of people evacuating....so here my prediction. Galveston will be wiped out...there will be nothing left. Houston will sustain heavy damage with some of the sky scrapper eventually having to be destroyed. The storms effects will reach as far east as New Orleans where the levees once again rupture and some of New Orleans once again floods. The refineries suffer major damage and subsequently gas shoots up to $3.75 a gallon, once the depth of the damage is realized gas climbs to $5+ a gallon with major shortages. The nations infrastructure grinds to a halt with no fuel to power the airlines, semis, personal vehicles. Natural gas shortages lead to high prices with many deaths from the cold in the typical places like Chicago. Inflation climbs to 25% because of the fuel costs. We won't enter a depression, but rather a new reality for the next 8 months. This reality has people sleeping at their jobs only to return for the weekend, mass transit the only means of transportation, carpooling and housepooling. Housepooling is a new concept where people share the floors and other sleeping areas of their home in order to offer people a place close to work. Ultimately this all lasts for the next 12 months, because as the rebuilding starts not only in Galveston, New Orleans, and Houston money is being pumped into the economy much like the New Deal. We emerge from this crisis with more fuel efficient cars and other ways to have cheap energy.
Well....that's definitely a worse case scenerio, and it probably won't be anywhere near that bad...but it never hurts to lay it all out.
In other news I finally bought the new TV that I have wanted for years! YIPPEE! I've wanted a TV since I worked at Best Buy, but since I worked there I never had a way to pay for it. Well, now I have a new one!
Amanda is almost done with her current rotation, then she starts driving downtown again...I don't miss that any!
This weekend I'd like to go North, and I'll put the likelihood of it about 85%, but we'll see!
Oh yeah, last night was the season premeire of LOST, and it did not disappoint! I love that show, and it looks like the mysteries, cluse, and intrigue continue for another season. If you haven't watched this show, pick up the first season and watch it...I promise you will not be disappointed!
Ok, that's it for now.
A monster hurricane is bearing down on the Texas coast. Millions of people evacuating....so here my prediction. Galveston will be wiped out...there will be nothing left. Houston will sustain heavy damage with some of the sky scrapper eventually having to be destroyed. The storms effects will reach as far east as New Orleans where the levees once again rupture and some of New Orleans once again floods. The refineries suffer major damage and subsequently gas shoots up to $3.75 a gallon, once the depth of the damage is realized gas climbs to $5+ a gallon with major shortages. The nations infrastructure grinds to a halt with no fuel to power the airlines, semis, personal vehicles. Natural gas shortages lead to high prices with many deaths from the cold in the typical places like Chicago. Inflation climbs to 25% because of the fuel costs. We won't enter a depression, but rather a new reality for the next 8 months. This reality has people sleeping at their jobs only to return for the weekend, mass transit the only means of transportation, carpooling and housepooling. Housepooling is a new concept where people share the floors and other sleeping areas of their home in order to offer people a place close to work. Ultimately this all lasts for the next 12 months, because as the rebuilding starts not only in Galveston, New Orleans, and Houston money is being pumped into the economy much like the New Deal. We emerge from this crisis with more fuel efficient cars and other ways to have cheap energy.
Well....that's definitely a worse case scenerio, and it probably won't be anywhere near that bad...but it never hurts to lay it all out.
In other news I finally bought the new TV that I have wanted for years! YIPPEE! I've wanted a TV since I worked at Best Buy, but since I worked there I never had a way to pay for it. Well, now I have a new one!
Amanda is almost done with her current rotation, then she starts driving downtown again...I don't miss that any!
This weekend I'd like to go North, and I'll put the likelihood of it about 85%, but we'll see!
Oh yeah, last night was the season premeire of LOST, and it did not disappoint! I love that show, and it looks like the mysteries, cluse, and intrigue continue for another season. If you haven't watched this show, pick up the first season and watch it...I promise you will not be disappointed!
Ok, that's it for now.
