I'm with Mike. I grew up in Lynchburg, VA and the Shenandoah Valley (a bit further north) is downright purrrfect.

Cheers,

Shenandoah sounds nice. Memphis, on the other hand, has good barbecue, a variety of music, plenty of bad drivers, a good number of thunderstorms and tornado warnings each year, and the potential for a huge earthquake one day.

How is the real estate market in VA? I am going on a road trip from Miami to Boston next month so maybe I will take some detours. I just bought this house so I probably would not actually move for a year or two if I decided to. My job is a little difficult also to just up and move from...but I have been thinking... Miami is not what it used to be for a lot of reasons. I have been here for 34 years and it has been going downhill pretty speedily for the last 15 or so.

Wing, just look at the bright side. In Miami you can really bone up on your Spanish. 8-)

The real estate market in Virginia is pretty depressed unless you're talking commutable distances from D.C. Then it becomes rather expensive...increasingly so as you approach the city.

Cheers,

Hey Wingnut (and the rest of you Floridians), how'd you make out? I've been thinking about you folks (and various other friends and relatives in your neighborhood).

Hey guys. Well I lost the rest of the shingles on my house and my fence is totally gone but other than that everything is ok. No one hurt. I have been on the Bravo shift at work 13 hours a day so I have not been able to visit here. My computer service at home is not up now either but the power did come back on yesterday.

Gas lines are long and the neighborhoods are dark and we have caught a few looters -mostly commercial.

I am really surprised by the lack of preparation by the people around here. You would think that they would have stocked up but now they are complaining that the government is not supplying them with the things that they should have gotten in the first place. We were given plenty of notice and so many people do not want to take responsibility for their lack of preparation.

Thank you for the good luck...oh and most importantly... My HT is totally safe!

Hey there!

Glad everyone is OK. Property can be replaced, but lives are precious.

Yeah, I don't get the media harping on the people sitting there expecting "the gummint" to rush in and do everything for them. Wilma literally sat out there for days and the news was blaring that it was going to hit Florida so people should prepare. And now people are crying because they don't have the essentials that they could have picked up in any convenience store in 10 minutes prior to the storm. Go figure.

They should deal with the looters harshly. That is the lowest of the low...preying on people who are already suffering like that.

Cheers and hope for a speedy recovery,

wing,glad u ok.