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Posted on 08/05/2004 5:47:31 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
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Morning, morning one and all!
I've gotten in touch with my friend in Port Charlotte and she is fine. She's lost phone service, but amazingly enough, she does have power! :-)
I've got some errands to run and I have to make plans with Anne for an outing later. All I really want to do is lay around all day eating snacks, and that's just not possible.
Corin - please be careful up there!!
See everyone later!
Oh yeah, and watch that lovely Depression #5 storm for me and Sam Cree. I can't wait until hurricane season is finally over.
These horses ended up on a hilltop surrounded by flood waters and they had to get them to swim over to where the trailers were.
Don't know if they were just turned out. The barn(s) could have been smashed by trees or the flood waters rising and they didn't want the horses trapped in the barn.
I will say "Nothing of the Dog" if it will help...
Yeah - I don't envy their choices, but I wouldn't live where I was expected to have to make those choices. With the exception of a large fire, I just don't expect a disaster to happen where I'd have to either move them or leave them to fend for themselves. I wouldn't keep horses in hurricane or flood country.... or tornado country for that matter! I imagine myself running a boarding stable someday, where I wouldn't be responsible for just mine, but 20.
Heh. Most emergency shelters won't take horses.
Heh.... I know. Till the food got scarce, then I wouldn't exactly, ~want~ them to. ;~D
But then again, there are some wild horses on the Outer Banks and they seem to survive okay.
Hi everyone!
Well, Charley blew on through without too much of a fuss in my area. We had some wind from about 7 to 9:30ish. We headed home at 10:00 last night and when we got home we had no power so we turned around and went back to my in-laws who had power and spent the night.
Our power was finally restored at 9:45 this morning and we made it home by 11:00. In fact we hadn't been home long before Hair called us.
The major damage was from Port Charlotte to Orlando. I'm curious to see how my workplace did considering it is almost all glass and the eyewall went right over it.
We just got done a pretty bad thunderstorm a little while ago, in fact it was worse than what we had with Charley.
Anyway, that's a quick note about what happened with us last night. We are fine and we thank everyone for their prayers.
Try not to step through to Jr's room this time.....
Y'all moved and didn't warn me?
But I found you anyway! :o)
I thought of stuff like that :) My questions when watching that show were usually more about stuff like why he didn't just pulverize people when he hit them with his bionic arm or legs, instead of merely making them fly through the air to the backdrop of a weird sound effect. Speaking of which, though, it was kinda cool the time he ripped Sasquatch's arm off :)
And speaking of Steve Austin, here's an interesting story:
"I make a lousy geek, I'm afraid."
Well, you get subtracted a few geek points for not liking Heinlein, but you still have a few extra from reading all that Jules Verne :)
Oh, good. Glad to hear you're ok and have power, and, more importantly, internet.
LOL! He goes back in time when he reaches 88 lph (lies per hour).
Most storm shelters won't take ANY animals at all. On Dr. Randy's Pet Sense radio show, they were talking about a rescue group that has a couple of semi-s with cages all along the sides of the trailers and they head out to disaster areas to round up and store pets till the owners can come and get them. They were also were saying that it's a good idea have a photo of you and your pet(s) for proving i.d. if the collar etc. is gone. I didn't catch/remember the name of the group that did that but it seems like great idea.
"Been a long, long time since we went to the Science museum."
Have you ever been to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago? I always liked to go there.
After Floyd the National Guard was leaving dog food out all along the highways for all the dogs they hadn't caught yet.
I wouldn't evacuate anywhere without my cat. That being said, I'm also not in a mobile home, not in a flood plain, and not on a water front....at least I wasn't in NC. I figured my house had just as good a chance at withstanding the storm than some school building.
The only place I've been in Chicago is Midway Airport. :)
Ditto, and from the view of the city that's about the only place I want to visit.... it's too big a city for me...
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