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We’re temporarily reactivating the old site, here at folo.us to share news and discussion

The explosion in internet traffic resulting from word spreading about the Scruggs plea was so great at folo.us that it set off alarms at the server farm in Texas where folo “lives.” The system administrators interpreted the spike as a malicious “distributed denial of service” (DDOS) attack and shut down folo.us to save the server. While they work to get folo online again and traffic balanced, we’re activating this old site at http://folo.us to try to handle news and discussion. We hope that wordpress.com, which spreads traffic over dozens of servers, can handle the load.

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About 7 am today thunder came rolling through our little Texas valley, which was the cue for our Golden Retriever, Dizzy, to leap panting and whining onto my still-sleeping head.

And that was my cue to root around to find and dress her in her “thunderwear,” a snug-fitting jersey garment that has near-magical power to relieve the thunderstorm anxiety she has developed as she has gotten older.

Without her thunderwear – technically, an Anxiety Wrap – Dizzy is a panting, drooling, pacing basket case when storms roll in. Snugged into it, she handles the flashing and the booming with only mild interest.

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