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You would not believe it, the people across the street from me had power since Friday afternoon, but me and the folks that live north & south of me had nothing.... We would stop and tell the line crews about the situation and they told us there was nothing they could do because certain circuits were assigned to individual crews and that we would have to wait until our crew arrived.... they arrived today from Arkansas.... I had been listening to talk radio since the storm, and I believe it dropped off the airways on Friday... storm came in Wednesday.... Don't know how bad the looting was, but we did hear reports of an increase of burglaries and some looting... I suspect it was nothing like we have seen in other situations.... Needless to say the 95 degree temps and 100% humidity made it terrible... no showers.... sewage... just plain miserable... then we at least get water back and then the standing water starts a stinking..... now you can not walk outside without getting attacked by the mosquito's... luckily I had my 928 jacked up from the rear so I can pull the tranny... If not for that it would have been a fish bowl..... One other observation that I made is that for the most part we do not have frogs... the night after the storm it was like the Egyptian plague from the bible... all night long for the next three nights ..RRRREEEEEEEP RRRREEEEEP!!! Geez..... but with power back and the A/C on things are looking up, I need to let the water recede in the yard so I can start my cleanup....