A Very Falcoholic Update: Alive But Encased In Ice

by Dave Choate on Dec 13, 2008 4:00 AM EST in Editorial

Some of you may have heard about this whole ice storm thing. Currently, most of New England is coated in a thin sheet of frozen water that is bending trees, covering roads and knocking out power. We're thinking of switching to an ice-based economy.

As you might have guessed, I don't have power. My wife and I were visiting my father-in-law after a recent surgery when he lost power and several branches the size of Grady Jackson came thumping down on the roof. I'm currently in one of the dozen or so houses in the state of Maine that actually has electricity, but I'll only be here a short time and conservative estimates put New Hampshire at early next week.

Just in case, I'm preparing a game thread to go up Sunday so you guys can discuss the Falcons while I clean out my flooded basement. With any luck, I'll be able to join you just in time to watch the Falcons stomp a new one arrrr-hole in the Bucs.

Goodnight and good luck, gentle folk!

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When will Dave get his power back?

Today

1 votes

Sunday

3 votes

Monday

4 votes

Tuesday or later

3 votes

Can you write The Falcoholic via smoke signals?

33 votes

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Good luck

Glad you have power, and a sense of humor, for now. My parents’ home in Atlanta lost power in an ice storm for a week, when I was a kid. I never enjoyed a nice, warm dental appointment as much as the one I had that week! Be safe, Cap’n.

by tom slick on Dec 13, 2008 4:36 AM EST reply actions

Good luck Dave

Hope you get power back ASAP. I hope you get back in time to see the start of a 7 game winning streak.

by Funballad on Dec 13, 2008 6:26 AM EST reply actions

Here's hoping it's back

by tomorrow. We need our Most Esteemed Leader™ in the game thread!

Also, I’m putting you down in the Member WhereIs as a New Hampshirian. That okay? I’m working on a coverage map of our members, well at least the active ones that choose to participate.

"The nice thing about supporting a bedraggled-cum-decent team? Watching all those analysts eat their words."

by Adam Schultz on Dec 13, 2008 9:55 AM EST reply actions

Been playing super heros with my 4 year old a bunch lately.

..so much so that the first thing that jumped in my mind when I saw the poll question “When will Dave get his power back” was “wow, what super power did he have?”.

In a way, each of us has an El Guapo to face.

by runningback on Dec 13, 2008 4:11 PM EST reply actions

It'd be cool to fly

"He's getting better, but he's not there yet ..."
- Bobby Cox (talking about Boyer)

by FrankyWren on Dec 13, 2008 5:06 PM EST up reply actions

In case anyone wanted to know....

Mort just said on ESPN countdown that Garcia is going to be the #3 QB today for TB. He also said Griese was going to start….hopefully that can be a good thing for us.

Go Falcons!!!

by Phizzzle on Dec 14, 2008 11:58 AM EST reply actions