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So far we still have electricity., originally uploaded by tetheredto.

It’s weird how the internet can make you feel close to people you don’t know and have never met. I have been worried about a couple of people I know is in the path of the furious Hurricane Ike.

One of Rose and Olive’s last entries on Flickr reads:

“And although we’ve busted out a window so far, we’ve also put it back together already. We’re watching four different stations on the television and comparing what they say to what we see. It might be the definition of an existential experience, all this description about what’s happening to us while it’s happening, except for the fact that the duct tape is red, there’s a bowl of grapefruit in sugar-water on the table and the floor is swept and shiny and looking rather good for sleeping at the moment.”

Those of you that have been following my blog for a while, would know that I have a certain fondness for two very talented photographers from Galveston Texas.

I never knew much about Galveston, but I know now it is close to Houston.

From Rose and Olive I have also learned that their is some really interesting people (like Dirty Feet) living around Houston doing some pretty interesting things. Often they have had me jealous - all that raucous freedom!

In my experience some of the towns you least expect have some of the most fascinating inhabitants. Pretoria (or Tswane) is another case in point.

Rose and Olive is full of life.

All that to say, we’re making it through the hurricane, even though the lights are blinking. We’ll be without power soon, but we’ll be rather well fed and without power.

I discovered them on Flickr more than two years ago, and have been enamoured with their pictures, prose and videos (of themselves and their friends) since. Stay safe girls.

With this post I also signal a slight change in my blogging policy. I have just gone through the longest blogging hiatus since I started 3 years ago.

So engrossed was I by recent events in my beloved South Africa that I started only writing about my homeland. But what’s happening in South Africa is profoundly depressing.

If you want to keep blogging you have to enjoy it. That means you should write about what you find fascinating in life. Even if it’s rather diverse. I’m not paid for this after all.

Rose and Olive - your an escape. I hope you escape to.