Four Months Down
Looks like we're at the four month anniversary of the flood. It's warm here this week so I could be sleeping quite comfortably at Rocheblave but I got a few more days of this house-sitting gig so I'm sleeping comfortably on N. Lopez. Talked to a guy across the street who has no electricity (the only house in this neighborhood without it) and I asked him what kind of converstations, if any, he had had with Entergy and he said 30 minute to one hour holds with occasional in his face hang ups and the last bit of hopeful info they gave him was--weeks, not months. Did you know that weeks eventually do add up to months? His experience with Entergy is pretty similar to mine except that my block is not even powered up at all, no streetlight, which is the signal that you can at least anticipate the reality of your juice being turned on. I could start to get frustrated here pretty soon. My friend says I should be calling Entergy but I don't really agree with my friend about the benefit of that. Lucky for me I got things to take my mind off of this shit. In a couple of weeks I'm driving up to Dallas to help my siblings kick my mom out of her house and set her up in assisted living facility. She doesn't know that's going to happen but all of you do. A bit of advice to all of my mentally ill friends who may wish to visit here. Do not wave a three inch knife at large gatherings of police. You will scare them silly and they will shoot you dead.
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Looks like we're at the four month anniversary of the flood. It's warm here this week so I could be sleeping quite comfortably at Rocheblave but I got a few more days of this house-sitting gig so I'm sleeping comfortably on N. Lopez. Talked to a guy across the street who has no electricity (the only house in this neighborhood without it) and I asked him what kind of converstations, if any, he had had with Entergy and he said 30 minute to one hour holds with occasional in his face hang ups and the last bit of hopeful info they gave him was--weeks, not months. Did you know that weeks eventually do add up to months? His experience with Entergy is pretty similar to mine except that my block is not even powered up at all, no streetlight, which is the signal that you can at least anticipate the reality of your juice being turned on. I could start to get frustrated here pretty soon. My friend says I should be calling Entergy but I don't really agree with my friend about the benefit of that. Lucky for me I got things to take my mind off of this shit. In a couple of weeks I'm driving up to Dallas to help my siblings kick my mom out of her house and set her up in assisted living facility. She doesn't know that's going to happen but all of you do. A bit of advice to all of my mentally ill friends who may wish to visit here. Do not wave a three inch knife at large gatherings of police. You will scare them silly and they will shoot you dead.
- jimlouis 12-28-2005 5:47 pm