Slowest hurricane season you ever wanted to see...

but we have plenty of flooding all through the deep south, from Tennessee to Georgia. We have rivers cresting at 26 and 28 feet above flood stage, we have communities that watched a river rise 22 feet in just 24 hours, we have water everywhere.... except Texas, of course, which continues to suffer a ten year drought.

Then there's California, the whole state is hot and dry and no relief in sight, which is bad news this time of year. There's a big fire that just sprang up in Ventura County, God help those people if the Santa anas decide to blow (which is gonna happen one of these days).

They had wild fires in Colorado but that's over as Denver gets hit by a foot of snow tonight.

whacky weather

Irrelevant… uh yeah, but who gives a you know what:

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I live in what was an Ike mandatory evacuation zone. We're thankful for a quiet hurricane season. There's still alot of Ike devastation not too far from where I live.

they had four bonafide hurricanes pass through in one year. He works for the County so he gets to take shelter in the County shelter; not much fun but way better than the alternative. By the time the 4th hurricane came to visit, his wife (then girlfriend) didn't want to go to the shelter again... you forget that your life is on the line. Thankfully they went.

Ike was a bitch, did a lot of damage.

never gets old

Waking up to discover the mortgage market was a giant criminal enterprise

By Matt Taibbi

"A landmark ruling in a recent Kansas Supreme Court case may have given millions of distressed homeowners the legal wedge they need to avoid foreclosure. In Landmark National Bank v. Kesler, 2009 Kan. LEXIS 834, the Kansas Supreme Court held that a nominee company called MERS has no right or standing to bring an action for foreclosure. MERS is an acronym for Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, a private company that registers mortgages electronically and tracks changes in ownership. The significance of the holding is that if MERS has no standing to foreclose, then nobody has standing to foreclose – on 60 million mortgages. That is the number of American mortgages currently reported to be held by MERS. Over half of all new U.S. residential mortgage loans are registered with MERS and recorded in its name. Holdings of the Kansas Supreme Court are not binding on the rest of the country, but they are dicta of which other courts take note; and the reasoning behind the decision is sound."

has been done electronically online for years... that's what MERS is. Problem with the courts is simple; they ignore each other. Foreclosures will steam along... even in Kansas. Wish it was a Supreme Court ruling and not just saving Todo's new puppy house.