After a week or so of very hard work, we decided trying to clean everything up and restore the house was a futile attempt. Everything we really wanted to save/couldn't afford to replace immediately was cleaned up, boxed, and stored at my brother's house. After a couple weeks of cleaning and boxing, the house was empty, dirty, and full of stuff that used to be valued possessions now covered in mud, scattered throughout the house, all over the floor. It bothered me to see the house I grew up in being abandoned. The yard was a huge mess with mud, sand, and trash that had washed in everywhere.
We called a guy we knew and he came with his dozer and here's the end result:
I thought catchin it on video would be something to have (afterall, how many people get to plan to watch their childhood home be destroyed? haha) I quickly grabbed a camera (the only one I could find right off) and sat it on the hood of the truck. I wasn't sure the limit on recording (it was a camera I hadn't used a lot before) so I had to keep checking to see if the card was full/cam was still recording/etc. The video is kinda shaky and the guys who were working were continually walking in front of the cam or standing in front of the cam -- no big deal, though.
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I've finally had some time to actually look through the pictures and videos I took on the first few days. No video will ever be uploaded, but here are some pictures.
Two days after the flood and it was still much higher than usual
My side yard with one of my buildings pushed against the neighbor's house
Back(ish) yard
What remains of building #1 and misc trash
Building number #1 and backyard
Backyard/fence and ~3 feet of sand/mud
Backyard and uprooted tree
Backyard
Some flowers I had planted just a few days prior. Hadn't even moved them up front yet...
Backyard
Front porch. The water somehow managed to pull the carpet/rug up. It was glued pretty well.
My foot, front sidewalk.
Road in front of the house.
Backyard
Trash out for the National Guard to pick up
Floors are buckling, hooving.
The dryer vent o' mud lol
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My house was flooded on Friday night/Saturday morning (around 3am). Nothing much else to say so here are some pictures.
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More pictures located here: http://hellokevin.com/flood.
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"Cute, fuzzy...let's show it to a friend!"
At this moment, that video has just a dash over 8 million views. That's not really any news for a youtube video. Hell, Avril Lavigne's video for "Girlfriend" has over 118 million views (Most Popular YouTube Videos, Alltime).
Back to the kitten video -- I was in my own little world, staring and smiling at the playful lil kittens pouncing around when it hit me: "How many other slobs are blobbing in front of their computers doing the same exact thing?" So, I did some quick math.
8 million views for a video that is roughly 1.5 minutes.
That's 12,000,000 minutes of wasted time. That's 200,000 hours gone. 8,333 days of human life lost. That's 22.8 YEARS of life that can never be lived again. I'm only 21 years old, these cute little kittens, no more than a month or so old, have consumed more human life that I have lived.
Avril Lavgine's crappy video, at 3:48 in length and 118,768,725 views, has consumed a whopping 27,079,269,300 seconds; 451,321,155 minutes ; 7,522,019 hours ; 313,417 days; 858.67 YEARS of life. Someone *please* correct my math if I have made a mistake. This is just hard for me to believe. I had never really stopped to think about how much time is wasted.
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Huntington was recently hit with some fairly harsh snow and I snapped a few photos predawn -- wanted to get pictures before sidewalks were salted and such.
And I just returned from NYC. I didn't take as many pictures as I had planned -- too busy having fun and hanging out with people. I plan on going back sometime soon so maybe I'll get some more interesting "touristy" photos then. Here are a few photos of some museums and galleries that I visited (and a few random snapshots). If you were with me or hung out with me at night, I have some photos if you're interested...I'm not posting them online (don't want to embarrass anyone or myself LOL...good times, good times).
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My roommate lives off Chinese takeout and McDonalds. Here's a menu with an amusing typo.
Going home for the first time in a while this weekend. Happy Birthday, Dad!
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I had thought it was impossible until now:
Here's a screenshot of the ad taken directly from the adwords panel:
And here's a screenshot of the ad showing up in my adsense:
So just to be sure someone hadn't magically used the exact same wording and punctuation as me, I click on my own ad (and another thing: I know google doesn't count your own clicks but do they penalize you? I'm often curious about where the ads on my site link to but don't want to click and risk google penalizing me somehow) and it takes me to my own site! WTF? Doesn't really bother me but this totally shouldn't be happening.
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