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Formosan termites are back.

2008-05-16T23:35:38-06:00

I see the winged pests are back in force again. It seems they are showing up earlier this year for some reason. Is anyone else having problems yet? They drop their wings around 8PM - 10PM and start crawling in search of a tasty portion of your home to nest and start eating . I know they usually swarm the city around outside lights first and then make their way inside. But this year, they seem to be getting a head start before the swarm begins. Just wondering if it is all over town already. Thanks.

Alabama Sheriffs Feed Inmates on $1.75 a Day

2008-05-16T17:45:15-06:00

This AP story reminded me of a guy that used to work in Mobile. lol These guys need to write a book and let us in on the secret of eating for a buck 75 a day and having money left over afterward.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. � Back in the day of chain gangs, Alabama passed a law that gave sheriffs $1.75 a day to feed each prisoner in their jails, and the sheriffs got to pocket anything that was left over.

More than 80 years later, most Alabama counties still operate under this system, with the same $1.75-a-day allowance, and some sheriffs are actually making money on top of their salaries. But exactly how much is something of a mystery because state auditors do not have access to sheriffs' private accounts. (cont.)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356436,00.html

DAVID Cook Will win the Match of then Two David!!!!

2008-05-16T02:04:30-06:00

I knew it!!!!

Suprisingly, i feel that David Cook will win the battle for the Season 7 Finale of the American Idol......

I knew He wilL win the search!!!!!!! Lets Support David!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

COOK!!!

COOK!!!

WKRG HD DIRECTV

2008-05-15T22:09:00-06:00

When will WKRG be offered in HD as part of DirecTV's local lineup. Channel 5 is the only network affilliate in Mobile that I cannot get a waiver from to get CBS in HD (I am in Thomasville and cannot get a strong enough digital signal to rcieve HD over the air). ABC, FOX and NBC affilliates all allow me to get the national HD DirecTV feed in addition to their Mobile/Pensacola standard feeds. When you go all digital in 2009, will your HD feed be available to DirecTV subscribers?

Thanks

American Idol

2008-04-07T13:03:12-06:00

I know this is covered by another network, just curious. I think David Cook has a very good chance of winning this year. This week I think Kristy Lee or Jason are gonna bite the bullet. anyone else?

DTV and WKRG?

2008-05-13T20:41:06-06:00

I have problems receiving WKRG on High-Def channel 5-1. WKRG is the only station with which I am having problems. To watch CBS I tune to channel 5 instead of 5-1, so after Feb next year will I be able to receive WKRG? Will the current channel 5 go away and only 5-1 remain?

Who was that Guy?

2008-05-14T17:54:21-06:00

A couple of nights ago I was watching the news(on channel 5 of course) and there was a segment on what I believe was the Bill proposed by Ben Brooks. On this segment there was a man, I suppose he was a Legislator and he made a comment that went something like" I live 400 miles from the coast and I don't have to like your bill". Maybe it's just me and I could be wrong(that has occured in the past),but I thought all of our elected officials are there to serve the needs of the people of Alabama. So he don't live near the coast! Does he vacation here along our beautiful beaches? Stay in the condo's along said beaches? Dine at the resturants here? If they can't get insurance to help get them back on their feet after a disaster, then sir, where will you go?
Help those close to home first yes, but you are after all a citizen of this state. Where we look to those in office to make sure we are not taken advantage of. It is after all what you were voted into office to do.

Thank you Ben Brooks for making a stand for Alabamians

You Want Insurance Horror Stories???

2008-04-12T19:59:42-06:00

My family has been a long time customer of ALFA insurance. We have our home and cars covered with Alfa. Now the house we live in is in my grandmothers name as well as my husbands name but the insurance was only in my grandmothers name. When we had the house put in both names we checked with Alfa and they said that everything would be fine and to leave it the way it is. So for several years things go along fine. We have an insurance update, choose not to take the 2% hurricane deductible but to pay a little more and have a flat $250 deductible. Well we thought this was going to come in handy when Ivan hit till we went to make our small claim on some minor roof damage and our evacuation expenses. Alfa refused to pay for evacuation even though we were in mandatory evacuation, would not pay to have a tree removed even though it was on an outbuilding that was covered by insurance and only paid $4.75 a sq. ft. for the roof. Anybody who had to have a roof replaced after Ivan knows that the going price was 8+ a sq. ft.
Then the prices for insurance starts to jump and Alfa starts to talk about canceling insurance policies south of 98. We received a letter of cancellation from Alfa and called to find out why. The first response I got shocked me. I was told that my grandmother was dead! Well since I was sitting there looking at her I have to say that I was confused. So I asked the agent to repeat what she had just told me. Once she said again that my grandmother was dead, I told her that she needed to send help and fast. She asked me why and I told her that if my grandmother is dead that I have a dead woman sitting on my couch looking at me and I am scared. Well she didn't take that to well so she came up with the excuse that my husbands name was not on the Insurance policy. So? Put him on it. Well that will call for a credit check. So? Do it. Took a while but I won that round.
Then a few months later we get a notice that they are no longer going to honer the $250 deductible and that there is now a mandatory 5% hurricane deductible. There is also no longer any coverage for wind damage. WHAT?!?! Why have insurance during a hurricane if there isn't wind coverage?
Well this is all fine and good, because this dropped our Insurance payments from almost 8 grand a year to 2.5 grand a year, but if another hurricane hits and we have any damage to your home we will not be able to afford to fix the damage.
This is just the crap that I am going through with Alfa with homeowners, I wont even go into what I have been going through with them since I was in an accident back in October, but I can say it has been pure hell.

Miley Cyrus Photos

2008-05-06T11:52:15-06:00

The media just won't quit. Why is this so newsworthy?

It's not like it's porn. It's not like she's nekkid. We see her back...big woop. Now, the photo with her lounging all over her dad is a little creepy (to me), simply because I've never seen a daughter that age do such a thing.

Still, Annie Liebewitz is one of the finest photographers around and the shoot was overseen by her folks. I just don't understand the hoopla myself.

-nab

dauphin island fire sunday around 330 am

2008-05-12T06:39:59-06:00

just curious why the is no news coverage regarding the huge boat fire on dauphin island around 3am sunday.
dock also burned next to the ferry and there is no story about it on the news or paper. does anybody know why?