Real Name: Thomas Martinez Gender: male Date of Birth: May 17, 1968 Member Since: March 01, 2008 Last Signed In: November 14, 2008 Profile Views: 228 Blog Views: 1094 The great comics survey Quiet before the storm Are newspapers objective? Death of newspapers? Nah How to cover a community? Race and the media A brother's suicide My love of newspapers Out of the comfort zone A special night March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 
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Quiet before the storm
It's eerily quiet here today at the Advocate. We're all working hard to keep everyone updated through the day on our web site and with a special Ike print edition on Saturday.
The whole town is kind of quiet -- I'm wondering actually how many people are left here waiting out Ike. The traffic on the streets is down, half the town is boarded up, and there's not much to do. So, anyone out there having a cool hurricane party? Let me know what you'll be doing to wait out Ike, and what you'll be doing through what promises to be a long, quiet weekend. Thanks, and stay safe. As always, thanks for reading and posting. Thomas 1 comments from 1 users
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bella7
on Sep 12, 2008 at 04:27 PM
My family and I have decided to stay and ride out Ike. We are hoping it's not a bad storm and we don't lose electricity for long. We've charged all the game players, got out our card games, board games and flashlights/candles. We hope we're ready. I just finished taking out the dogs and heard music coming from the neighbors house along with splashing around...I'm guessing they're in the pool. So obviously some of our neighbors have stayed too. We've been talking with my in-laws who live across town and they're waiting out Ike also. I think most people stayed because we're supposedly on the "good" side of this storm. We'll see how that turns out. Just wanted you to know we're here and reading the site. Keep up the good work of keeping us all updated on the latest news. Thanks. Go away Ike...Tina isn't here!
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