The Storm of '06

A vicious storm rolled through St. Louis Wednesday evening, July 19, knocking out power for over a half-million people. This was the scene at Atherton the next morning - and the scene was the same everywhere you went in St. Louis.


Our power was out for 7 nights, and the weather remained in the upper-90's all week, so we had to move out of our apartment and into a unit on-campus which belonged to some friends who were out of town for the summer. Here we are at home in our bunkbeds. I'm 6'2". The bed was about 5' 10". Oh, and my bunk had the plastic sheet for bed-wetters. Thankfully, i had a Spaceman Spiff blanket to keep me company. Hey - we had lights, a fridge, and the greatest of all things modern - AC... we were blessed.