Well I am still here. We got raped and I mean hard. My home is OK but many trees down. My county is a damned mess but I was fortunate that my neighborhood got power very quickly and, after splicing my severed phone line, even have my DSL back!
Since Monday, I have been on the job 134 hours plus prepping my house, the family's beach house, and several of my wife's single friend's homes and then cleaning my yard and helping with several others.
We have been working our asses off and have arrested numerous looters although not quite on the scale I expected. Several other CID types and I have been put on an aggressive curfew enforcement / anti-looter detail working nights and it is kicking my ass.
I sent the wife and daughter off to be with family a bit further away and lived out of my vehicle and the office just before, during and after the storm.
Sleep has been minimal to put it mildly.
It is strange seeing soldiers with M-16s and Hummers all over. They Guardsmen are doing a great job supplementing our presence but are poorly equipped and briefed for the role.
I have decided to spend my overtime money on either an AK underfolder (I will name him Ivan and pet him and love him.) or a 20" A2 afterbeing inspired by the NG guy's rifles so that thought has been something nice to l ook forward to.
Anyway, thanks for the many IM's and such! All is well, or will be, at least. Ivan has really changed this place and it will take years for it to return to normal...
I know this is a rambling post but I am seriously brain dead at the moment. I'm sitting at my deesk waiting for the last 20 minutes of this shift to end. I am just too tired to be behind the wheel right now.
I'll try to get some pics up later.