by manekochan » Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:16 pm
Someone I spoke to said the Wal-Mart would take a year to rebuild. I'm not really sure that's accurate since the Chick-Fil-A guy told me they(Chick-Fil-A)'d be back up in a month.
I went by my old house today. Sturdy little thing was in the thick of it but all of its exterior walls are still standing. It has no roof now and no windows. It'll still have to be torn down but it's kind of nice to see it still mostly there. It was an old old house. All rock. Those rocks are still there unlike the houses that were rock/brick exterior and wood inside. Those are gone. It had a full basement, too. It's nice to know that, even if we still lived there, we would have lived.
When you live on the North side of town it's so easy to forget what's going on. It's when you get over (a mere 5 blocks from here, actually) there in the South end that you really feel it. Yesterday was the first morning I'd driven through it without wanting to cry. I think I was just too tired. Today, it was back again. It's so horrible. Every time I drive Vault to work it's like a week's worth of depression dropped on my head at once.
Our power was out for a day which is just crazy. The last time it was out it was gone for 8 days. I'm so happy they got it back so fast.
Our boil order is over and our internet access is back, but I find myself, after not being able to get online for a while, using the internet less and less.
Brock: Honestly, Hank, where do you pick that stuff up? I never see you read!
Dean: It's weird, right?
Brock: It's like he channels dead crazy people!