[rescue] alive and kicking

[Brian Hechinger]

>   Well, in spite the best efforts of a rather beefy tornado, we (Mike N,
> James Sharp, me) are still here and in one piece.  My power came back
> on a few hours ago (it'd been down since yesterday afternoon) and I'm

damn.  that's a long time to not have power.

> hip-deep in the "rebooting my world" process.  Only minor yard damage

glad i'm not you.  it's enough of a pain in the ass bringing my stuff back up,
i can only imagine what it's like at your place.

> here at my place, but just three blocks down the street looks like the
> aftermath of Dunkirk.  A local Home Depot is missing its roof and has
> a tractor-trailer sticking out of the side of the building, and there
> are still many "pockets" of nearby power outages as of a few minutes
> ago.

wooo, death and destruction, get photos!!

>   Apparently it tore the shit out of College Park, just a few miles
> south of here.

that's a good thing though, yes? :)

-brian