Scott's
Houston Hurricane Rita Pages: Bad Electricity, Odds and Ends |
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next 4 shots are by my friend Kayte Young who lives
in my old neighborhood in the Montrose. Supermarket
awning shot to hell. |
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| Tragic
loss of beloved Fiesta supermarket parrot trademark
figure! Rita showed no mercy. |
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tragedy becomes art, or at least home decor. Good
catch, Kayte! |
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| Here's
the son of a bitch that caused my power outage, a
hinged, fusable link that popped. Power company guys
finally came by and flipped it shut with a long extensible
pole. After three days, that is. |
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| Another
scene from the night before Rita hit: the cats are
feeling the pressure. Clockwise from top: Captain
Guts, Stinky II, Tiger Bear, and Lean Swartz. |
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Command
Central: everything you need to survive a hurricane!
- Batteries,
AA, AAA, C, & D
- Cell
phone, just back from charging across the street at my neighbors
who had power (no man is an island)
- Lantern,
battery-powered
- Shortwave,
AM FM battery-powered radio
- Bananas!
- $200
cash money
- Crazed
ramblings
- Semi-non-perishable
food
- Booze
& drugs (aspirin)
- Beer
opener
- Melting
ice, went through about 8 ten pound bags
- The
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- The
Annals of the Former World
by John McPhee
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