Wow! Some rain. Totally socked in. Good luck with your cottage, Tam. I'm really sorry you're going through this.

~Trade~

If you haven't heard....local schools are closing at noon. be careful out there! the potholes are bad enough already, but now they are hinding under inches of rain!

Run-off - Photos taken this morning - what a storm ! Started last night and never let up.

yeah, folks shouldn't be swimming for a while after this one....imagine all the septic runoff in addition to the soils....yucky!!

How long would you say - to stay out of the water ? My in-laws are getting here tomorrow for a 2 week visit and I want to take them to the beach at some point...

Watch the paper. They'll announce when it's safe.

~Trade~

yeah, I'd wait to hear a list of safe beaches. Suzette, which island are you on? The same beaches are always failing the coliform test time and time again.

I'm on STT.

VI Dept of Environmental Protection

[www.dpnr.gov.vi]

You can get the H2) quality reports here

Thanks !!!!!!!!!!

I just read on the new that they found the little five year old girl that was missing, dead. Her mother sold her.

Whenever I think there's hope for the human race, I hear stories like that.

~Trade~

Ok, i may be out of the loop with the news since our friends are on island....but, what are we talking about with a missing little girl?? What island, where, when?/?
Hate this subject

N.C. Her mother supposedly sold her into prostitution.

[news.yahoo.com]

~Trade~

And the mother of this child is pregnant again.

The News of this Child's Death is more than Heartbreaking, there are no words that come to mind. Even an alley cat will take care of her kittens. No mercy for this women!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i live in nc...
this is the general consensus here...
skip the trial
skip the sentencing
bring her straight to the room at central prison where they give you a cocktail by drip and be done with her.
do the same with the guy who took her.
i am not a fan of the death penalty, but in this case i say FRY HER NOW!!!
this is tragic and i feel so badly for the father...so very sad for him.

Sis Irijah

disgusting, some people should definitely be chemically forbidden to have children

I say make it illegal to have a child without a permit! To get a permit you have to take a parenting class, interview with a shrink and prove financial responsibility. Let's stop broken parents from raising broken children. Fry her!

And as for the murderer at Ft Hood, give him life in prison on a diet of pork fat and water. Allahu Akbar!

The punishment should fit the crime.

The trial should be interesting. I can just hear the defense about what a crumby childhood she had, yadda, yadda, yadda. At least she had a childhood, more than can be said for that poor 5 year old. What she went through it might be a mercy that she didn't live to deal with that for the rest of her life.

On another topic, spent 5 days with a cleaning lady tossing stuff & sorting it. 2 carloads to the dumpster & not done yet. How 1 person can accumulate so much junk since Marilyn, I have no idea.

~Trade~

Trade~ are you moving, did I miss a post? I know you have been back to the states for Medical reasons, but are you leaving island?

No, just clearing out a ton of stuff that was stupid to hang onto. I didn't want to be in that show, "The Hoarders."

~Trade~

The Horaders. Hubby's middle name. I am constantly asking, "do we really need that?" I haul more stuff off to the dump than anyone else I know.

Usually we're all inclined to complain about the police but I need to publicly say thank you to the quick response of the VIPD. Yesterday, my friend's car was stolen. This afternoon I spotted the car and notified the police - right there he called and had cars dispatched to the area that I saw the car heading. Before sundown we heard the car was pulled over and the suspects arrested!!!