Katrina Lessons

Have you ever wondered what your house and neighborhood look like from several hundred feet up?

How about what your house might be worth? And how much might the surrounding homes in your neighborhood be worth?

Get the answer to all those questions here.

Just enter your address and ZIP code - sorry, international readers - and you'll get an aerial view of your home (not a very recent snapshot, but still quite nice) along with a fair idea of your home's approximate worth.

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THINGS I'VE LEARNED SINCE HURRICANE KATRINA

Both coffee and frozen pizza can be prepared on a barbecue grill.

No matter how many times you flick the switch, the lights will not come back on without electricity.

Kids *can* survive for more than four days without a video game controller in their hand.

Women really can live without doing their hair ... they just don't want to be around any other humans.

You will never get used to a cold shower, no matter how many times you take one.

TV is addictive and withdrawal is painful. Take it one day at a time, my friend.

There are more trees in my neighborhood than I thought there were.

Aluminum siding is definitely a luxury, not a necessity.

Crickets can increase their volume to cover the noise of 14 generators.

When required, a Chrysler minivan will float. It won't steer, but it will float.

Some things DO keep the mail carriers from their appointed rounds.

Cell phones work when land lines don't, but only for as long as the battery is charged. (See above lesson about electricity.)

Laundry hampers were never really made for anything but clothes.

Tree service companies are unappreciated.

"Drywall" is a compound word. Take away the "dry" and the stuff is pretty much worthless.

I can walk a lot farther than I thought I could.

[selected from Firesong's Funnies via JokeMaster; edits and updating by Mark Raymond]

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WONDER for YOUR WEEK: What is an "isolated" thunderstorm? One that none of the other thunderstorms will speak to?

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