Ike wrapup

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Yay, not many people died.  The partygoers on the Poop Deck scurried home while the waves destroyed nearby bars.  Lots of power is out - can someone tell me why the US has so much power infrastructure aboveground?  And the story of the storm probably has to be the freighter Antalina, which was definitely in peril on the sea: she lost power and the crew just had to ride it out and hope real hard.  That's not a place I'd want to be.  The pic after the cut is a synthetic aperture radar shot showing Antalina in the eye - she's the white dot.  "Ball-shrinking dread" is about the right description for the situation they were in.


In unrelated disaster-relief news, did anyone else see Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson piloting a charter jet to rescue XL holidaymakers from their company's collapse?  "I'm here for the catering, I brought along a few bags of croissants."   Truly surreal.