Send in the lifeboats!

[Doc]

Just making sure The Circle Squared hasn't floated away. I saw all of the flooding around Bastrop on the news. I hope you, Linda, and the cats aren't under water.

[Michael Moorcock]

Lightning fried our bloody expensive multisystem VCR and I lost
an article I was working on and had to redo it but aside from a couple of small lakes on either side of the house we seem to have escaped the worst of it. Thanks for asking!

[L'Etranger]

As if you hadn't enough reasons to leave TX ...!

[Doc]

Glad to hear it, MM (except for the electronic damage, of course). Some of the area looked really messy in the ariel shots.

Don't encourage him too much, LE. Some of us want to keep him here it Texas :D

[Whiskers]

From the sounds of it, you'll want to have a foot in Texas to escape your blazing hot summers in Spain...

[Whiskers]

err, considering recent health issues, I want to point out that the above message WAS NOT an intended pun.

[Anonymous]

You meant the OTHER FOOT anyway, didn't you, Berry?

[Michael Moorcock]

Glub. Yes, they used Bastrop as an example of high water levels on the local news. The local park was well under, as were many lamp-posts and such. It seems to be going down slowly now and the lake around our house has definitely subsided. It's now sharp and cool (for Texas -- i.e. in the low fifties) and a perfect Thanksgiving day. The allergens also seem lower. But it's the cedar fever will drive me out, ultimately, rather than rains, tornadoes and such. I was so much better while in Spain and France. That said, the chances of leaving a foot in Texas are not so great as they were. Doctor at the clinic last week was astonished at how well I'd healed. He believes it has much to do with the environment I was experiencing in Europe -- and not just the climate. Given that they were originally telling me I'd probably lose my leg, or that I would have to have a series of painful grafts, it's amazing how well I've healed. Much of this has to do with Linda, of course, as well as the great team at the St David's wound clinic in Austin.

[Michael Moorcock]

A number of factors. Yes, I felt so much better emotionally in Europe (though I might also feel as good in some of the 'blue' States...). The Texas climate has done me a fair bit of damage pretty much since I got here, so that has also been a factor in my general lack of good health (I'm naturally pretty healthy). I do have a very 'nordic' skin type which isn't very happy in the Texas climate -- I blister very quickly from anything metal, some plastics and various other materials, next to my skin.
Yes, I believe some of us are simply better off in the climates for which our ancestors originally adapted. After all, it took thousands of years for us to go from our basic African prototype to the Scandinavian model.
I was also luckier than many because I had extremely good collateral veins, which took over from the blocked artery. These came in useful when I was doing more walking in Europe (as one does). The car culture hasn't don't me a lot of good. I suspect if I'd kept walking, as I used to pretty much every day in London, Oxfordshire or Yorkshire, I wouldn't have had any of the trouble I've had for the last three years.

[Michael Moorcock]

Cheers. It really is worth keeping those collaterals up to scratch. I'm pretty sure that without them I would no longer have my leg. And there are vascular guys out there now who are getting better and better and manipulating veins, clots and the like, which is encouraging, as you no doubt already know.

[L'Etranger]

Glad to hear it, MM (except for the electronic damage, of course). Some of the area looked really messy in the ariel shots.

Don't encourage him too much, LE. Some of us want to keep him here it Texas :D

Doc, you're needed at the, hmmm, meeting point , you know what I mean, ahem.