Brian Smith in South Florida

Brian Smith was born in Malta, has a Maltese family and blogs at Brian Smith in South Florida . He has lived in Europe, Saudi Arabia and Australia and in the US since 2000. He writes software and uses bloglines to set up RSS feeds for new Malta pictures every day. He has lived in South Florida since 2002 and this is what he wrote in his blog following the recent hurricane that hit his neighbourhood:

The house is in good condition and our power is back on! The back gate got blown off its hinges, a few roof tiles slid off and some of our trees are looking a bit sorry for themselves, but otherwise we're unscathed.

Actually this storm gave us a soft landing, because the temperature after the hurricane passed was a very pleasant 70 degrees fahrenheit, which is the coldest its been since last winter! While the power was off we read, listened to music on Deanne's iPod and battery-powered travel speakers, I played games on my Nintendo DS in a room lit by about 30 candles. Around 10pm Deanne called me outside to see the sky; it was a spectacularly clear and starry night, so we went for a little walk with Patch and looked for satellites. During the night the power came back on and things are very close to what passes for normal...