COPS - hooh, bad boys

[hashiriya1]

Oh crap! Hulu doesn't allow people outside the USA to view their videos, but I read some of the replies and I know exactly what you were talking about! They air COPS here on Wednesdays, late at night. I just saw that episode! I am guessing it is the guy who fell asleep at the wheel or something, holding up traffic.

Since cops is shown internationally, it is a little embarassing that this is what people in other countries see in America.

[MrPopo]

Oh crap! Hulu doesn't allow people outside the USA to view their videos, but I read some of the replies and I know exactly what you were talking about! They air COPS here on Wednesdays, late at night. I just saw that episode! I am guessing it is the guy who fell asleep at the wheel or something, holding up traffic.

Since cops is shown internationally, it is a little embarassing that this is what people in other countries see in America.

It's no worse than how American perceptions of Japan are a bunch of boob jokes and panty shots thanks to anime. Television can give you interesting insights into a culture but only as a suppliment to actual research.

[Hobie-wan]

It still is very eerie. A lot of Greenville is still a ghost town. Next time I head over to that side of town, I'll take pictures. Possibly tomorrow.

I was lucky during the flood. Two blocks away from our building the first floor of every apartment was flooded. Four blocks down, the water covered the roofs. The water came up to my sliding door, barely trickling into my apt. We had fun though. Got a keg, hooked up inner tubes and chords to our 4 wheel drive SUVs, and took people for rides, until the police made us stop. Our street flooded when it rained, so you could imagine how flooded the streets were during a flood.

When Allison parked on top of Houston I was living back to back with a bayou. Thankfully my parking lot was higher than the next and my car kept out the water. My friend wasn't as lucky and the people in the next complex were all up to the tops of the doors on their cars. The police were going up and down the street in an air boat checking on people and watching for looters the next morning. They drove through in a dump truck too. Of course post Katrina, its peanuts, but at the time it was the worst flooding I'd been through or watched so much footage of.

[Luke]

My bad, it was hurricane Floyd that hurt us. It was bat shit insane around town. My friend Aaron live a few buildings behind me. He woke up at around 2 am, heard a lot of noise downstairs, but when he went to the staircase, the water was already coming up to the second level. Like a lot of people, he jumped out of his second story bedroom window, leaving everything he owned behind. A few days later a body washed up in the backyard of the Alpha Phi (which everyone calls alpha fat) sorority house.
There were a few deaths, mostly from drunk college kids diving into shallow water.

[vash23n]

Since the topic has changed to hurricanes... I was out at sea during Katrina on a cruise right off the coast sort of following it to the mainland. It was nuts, no one was allowed on the deck (I went out anyway - briefly - and realized why). The waves were insane. Anyhoo. It was strange when we got back because we didn't know anything about Katrina (we still thought it was a tropical storm and no big deal). I saw a billboard blown down in Florida and remember thinking there must have been a little wind afterall. I didn't realize the whole scope of the storm until I got back to Philly.