After reading Dark Deity post about him being okay but without power I would like anyone else who was affected to answer here. I know my buddy rellik lived in the area and my thoughts are with him as well as with any others who were affected by the store. I was going over pictures from the devastation and I did not comprehend how bad it hit the Galveston, Houston area. I live in the Rio Grande Valley and we all know we dodged a bullet on this one but because I have family who lives there and friends from eGO who evacuated I would like to know your okay. Seeing pictures with water 5-7 feet deep and seeing whole seaside neighborhoods gone except for one two houses hit me hard. I know katrina was alot worse but this one this at my home turf. I would just like to say again I wish that everyone from eGO and everyone who lives in the affected area is okay. You are in my thoughts and I will be here if you need me.
Hurricane Ike is gone. I hope your okay
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Just a question. If the person was dead how would we know about it? Is a ghost gonna reply to this topic?
Likewise if they lost their house are we gonna know about it so quickly?
If anything seriously bad happened, would we know about it immediatly?
Sorry to be so blunt, but I imagine all you'll see is people responding that they are okay.
OF COURSE this is the age of 3g cell phones, so I guess the person could be phoning in from another state if their house fell in. I dunno, but the chances of someone being able to reply if something bad happened are not good.
The whole point of me saying this is, if something bad like a tree falling on someone's house or the house collpasing happened, said person would be looking for a new home, or a way to fix said home and their first priority wouldn't be to log onto ego.
If something bad did happen, you may not know about it for months.
Likewise if they lost their house are we gonna know about it so quickly?
If anything seriously bad happened, would we know about it immediatly?
Sorry to be so blunt, but I imagine all you'll see is people responding that they are okay.
OF COURSE this is the age of 3g cell phones, so I guess the person could be phoning in from another state if their house fell in. I dunno, but the chances of someone being able to reply if something bad happened are not good.
The whole point of me saying this is, if something bad like a tree falling on someone's house or the house collpasing happened, said person would be looking for a new home, or a way to fix said home and their first priority wouldn't be to log onto ego.
If something bad did happen, you may not know about it for months.
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Talked to Tech today and he is ok. No power or water but ok.
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ok thank you tommy , i am glad Tech is ok.
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Yeah, when it hooked north it missed me completely. we didn't even get any rain from it (directly), it was originally headed right for me, but luckily for me (and unluckily for the Houston/galvestoner's) it missed me..
also alot of people have laptops. and if they are stranded from their homes, they are probly staying in a hotel, most hotels offer free broadband. If i lost everything (except my life), my home, possessions. basically everything that means nothing, but stuff i none-the-less worked hard to obtain, i could think of no better way to escape than to come to the eGO website.
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Here in Austin I didn't get a single drop of rain, but I have an Aunt who lived in Galveston and her house is gone. 
Hurricanes = lame. My Brother lives in Sealy (just underneath Houston) and thankfully he was alright, no power but at least his house is still there.
Hurricanes = lame. My Brother lives in Sealy (just underneath Houston) and thankfully he was alright, no power but at least his house is still there.I dunno, the storm came and went. I It wasn't like Katrina, where people lost everything, and had to stay away.
You either lost your house, lost part of it, or didn't. Either way citizens can return and figure out how to rebuild.
So IMO, they wouldn't have time to talk to anyone.
Personally, I hope they don't. I'd rather the people who had damage worry about themselves then us.
Us with houses can cope. If a person no longer has one, or it's damaged, I hope their doing what they can and not talking to us.
It would honestly bother the hell out of me if a person was talking to me when they could be taking stuff that still works out of their house, calling their insurance office, etc.
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After a week of "promised" severe weather up here in the Dallas area, we got grazed by the weak side of the hurricane and had about 12 hours of light rain... great for the yards (I do landscaping as a part time job) but bad for moving. I think the Ike people in Houston will be back to gaming before I will be... we had to move everything on Sunday since Ike knocked Saturday out and our apartment is a wreck... nothing like moving fast and just throwing everything in the new place to get the job done.
Hope everyone south of here is doing well!
Hope everyone south of here is doing well!
