With my mum just now at a medical appointment (routine, nothing scary) near the Aguadilla Mall, one of the few places with decent daytime signal because of a "super hot spot" AT&T installed here. Things remain pretty much as they've been. Neither better nor worse. My biggest concern over continued progress here is that the situation has gone on for sooooo long that the period of "sex appeal" for our issues has expired. You can only expect the public to worry itself over a given thing for so long before the news cycle rotates to the next shocking thing.
Well I'm glad to hear things aren't any worse than they were. I'll have you and your family in my thoughts and prayers until you get through these hard times.
It's so good to see your name pop up! I'm glad things aren't any worse, but I understand your fear Is there any specific fund that is really helping a lot we could promote or contribute to? I'm always afraid the help isn't really going where it's supposed to be (because I'm super cynical like that). Seriously though - I'm so happy to see you!!
I wish I could answer with certainty, but information is hard to get here and we have our own local deluge of politicking and politicizing viewpoints that muddle things. All I can tell you is that today is day 75 of no power for the majority of Puerto Ricans (we're getting close to 50%) and even worse for the USVI where it's closer to 80% without power.
I too would like to help but I don't know how. Putting up power lines is not something I can do—though I'd wish that someone would put up newsflashes to keep public awareness that things have not gone back to the norm; far from it.
Two awesome things happened between yesterday and today. 1) Yesterday I got a message from AT&T that they are waiving overage fees for this month. 2) Today I awoke to find three bars of LTE on my phone, propped up in my little makeshift holder thingie at the south window where internet signal is sometimes found at night... but it's DAY!!!
This is great news! They need to fix everything because I am back on my Study of Clive Barker, and with every chapter/short story I read, I get closer and closer to reading Imajica. Then you and I must have a literary conversation on the book that will rock this forum. (Hope all is well).
And, of course, what's the first thing Weybies does after saying hello? He goes to the General Writing subforum to move threads to where they belong.... Daniel made new subforums!
Ditto - I was so excited to see this in my alerts this morning. Huge international hugs coming your way!
Can I crash that party? In the 5-ish years since I read that book I still haven't encountered another that comes even close to topping it.
Why of course. Here is the Blog Series on it. https://www.writingforums.org/entry/horror-a-study-on-clive-barker-part-1-intro.63788/ I'm still a bit away from Imajica. The order I'm reading his stories are: 1. Books of Blood (Almost done with this) 2. Damnation Game 3. The hellbound heart. (This one will no doubt get a lot of attention as well.) 4. Weaveworld. 5. Cabel 6. Imajica!!!! (This might need its own forum Thread to discuss)
Unfortunately he didn't sort out the node issue so the volunteer army can't help you empty the bucket - 'less you want threads tagged and reported and shit
Added your blog to my watch list. Will have to wait a while, though, as Weaveworld is the first in that list that I have read (except for the first 2 stories in Books of Blood, after which I haven't returned to the book as it just became too much for me).
From the other thread (which I am kinda' side-skirting because I'm not really ready to deal with politics): The issue with the dam at Lake Guajataca remains a constant threat right now. There's an unknown leak somewhere around the lake because water levels are dropping faster than can be accounted for. Though the main threat is to the north of the lake where the dam is located, it seems like maybe the leak is not at the dam itself, but somewhere else. The concern is that the leak will erode itself to the point where there is a burst somewhere else around the lake, threatening whatever low lying area is in that direction. To give an idea: The blue dot is me. The lake looks far, but it's important to remember that PR is tiny. 100 x 35. My regular run is to the town of San Sebastian and back. As you can see, there is a complicated network of interconnected rivers and streams in this area, which made it prime coffee growing land back in the day. If the lake bursts hitherward, all of San Sebastian (a very pretty, quaint little Spanish Colonial town) is in danger.
