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In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.anecdotes", "Charleen Welton"
artfully composed this message within m on 17 Aug 2004: Thank you all very, very much for your thoughts, purrs and crossed fingers while we were dealing with Charley. Or rather Charley was dealing with us, We live in St. Cloud, FL (and are call called Floridians). It was very windy for a couple of hours and then Charley arrived with a huge gust of wind and continued with winds like that for exactly one hour. We could hear things flying through the air, things crashing against the house and the driveway. I looked out at one time and it was pitch, total black. I could not see the white iron work posts that support my front porch or even my pick-up truck that was only six feet away. Black, black, black. We lost the electricty but not the phone. In the morning we discover how wonderfully magical the thoughts, purrs and crossed fingers worked. We have no structual damage to our house, our cats, all three of them are fine, no one is the house is injured. We have some pain in the neck stuff, the antenna fell over but not off the roof, uprooted some bushes that were quickley replanted, lost one very small branch from an orange tree. I'm very very glad you weathered the storm. The only really bad one I can remember here was last year, Isabel. Isabel came up the Chesapeake Bay here in Maryland, and I'm not far from Annapolis but far enough inland. My neighborhood still looked like what you described with trees down on all of the power lines, trees that barely missed my neighbors houses, and my neighbor behind me didn't have a single tree still standing in their yard when it blew past. An old tree in my front yard was still standing, dead wood at the top and all. They had our power back in 4 days, though that felt like a long time after losing all the food in the freezer. At my parents house, they had a tall tree fall horizontal to the house so they were lucky, too. The reports are already saying its going to be a rough hurricane season for the Atlantic this year. I just bought a generator. lol -- Cheryl |
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In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.anecdotes", "Charleen Welton"
artfully composed this message within m on 17 Aug 2004: Thank you all very, very much for your thoughts, purrs and crossed fingers while we were dealing with Charley. Or rather Charley was dealing with us, We live in St. Cloud, FL (and are call called Floridians). It was very windy for a couple of hours and then Charley arrived with a huge gust of wind and continued with winds like that for exactly one hour. We could hear things flying through the air, things crashing against the house and the driveway. I looked out at one time and it was pitch, total black. I could not see the white iron work posts that support my front porch or even my pick-up truck that was only six feet away. Black, black, black. We lost the electricty but not the phone. In the morning we discover how wonderfully magical the thoughts, purrs and crossed fingers worked. We have no structual damage to our house, our cats, all three of them are fine, no one is the house is injured. We have some pain in the neck stuff, the antenna fell over but not off the roof, uprooted some bushes that were quickley replanted, lost one very small branch from an orange tree. I'm very very glad you weathered the storm. The only really bad one I can remember here was last year, Isabel. Isabel came up the Chesapeake Bay here in Maryland, and I'm not far from Annapolis but far enough inland. My neighborhood still looked like what you described with trees down on all of the power lines, trees that barely missed my neighbors houses, and my neighbor behind me didn't have a single tree still standing in their yard when it blew past. An old tree in my front yard was still standing, dead wood at the top and all. They had our power back in 4 days, though that felt like a long time after losing all the food in the freezer. At my parents house, they had a tall tree fall horizontal to the house so they were lucky, too. The reports are already saying its going to be a rough hurricane season for the Atlantic this year. I just bought a generator. lol -- Cheryl |
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In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.anecdotes", "Charleen Welton"
artfully composed this message within m on 17 Aug 2004: Thank you all very, very much for your thoughts, purrs and crossed fingers while we were dealing with Charley. Or rather Charley was dealing with us, We live in St. Cloud, FL (and are call called Floridians). It was very windy for a couple of hours and then Charley arrived with a huge gust of wind and continued with winds like that for exactly one hour. We could hear things flying through the air, things crashing against the house and the driveway. I looked out at one time and it was pitch, total black. I could not see the white iron work posts that support my front porch or even my pick-up truck that was only six feet away. Black, black, black. We lost the electricty but not the phone. In the morning we discover how wonderfully magical the thoughts, purrs and crossed fingers worked. We have no structual damage to our house, our cats, all three of them are fine, no one is the house is injured. We have some pain in the neck stuff, the antenna fell over but not off the roof, uprooted some bushes that were quickley replanted, lost one very small branch from an orange tree. I'm very very glad you weathered the storm. The only really bad one I can remember here was last year, Isabel. Isabel came up the Chesapeake Bay here in Maryland, and I'm not far from Annapolis but far enough inland. My neighborhood still looked like what you described with trees down on all of the power lines, trees that barely missed my neighbors houses, and my neighbor behind me didn't have a single tree still standing in their yard when it blew past. An old tree in my front yard was still standing, dead wood at the top and all. They had our power back in 4 days, though that felt like a long time after losing all the food in the freezer. At my parents house, they had a tall tree fall horizontal to the house so they were lucky, too. The reports are already saying its going to be a rough hurricane season for the Atlantic this year. I just bought a generator. lol -- Cheryl |
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"Karen Chuplis" wrote in message ... in article , Charleen Welton at wrote on 8/17/04 6:39 PM: , Aggie Marble, who dug a hole, jumped in and pulled the hole in after her, Victor Velcro, who was frightened but kept looking at me and "saying" I am not scared, no sir, not me. I'm with Aggie Marble. Tweed |
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"Karen Chuplis" wrote in message ... in article , Charleen Welton at wrote on 8/17/04 6:39 PM: , Aggie Marble, who dug a hole, jumped in and pulled the hole in after her, Victor Velcro, who was frightened but kept looking at me and "saying" I am not scared, no sir, not me. I'm with Aggie Marble. Tweed |
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"Karen Chuplis" wrote in message ... in article , Charleen Welton at wrote on 8/17/04 6:39 PM: , Aggie Marble, who dug a hole, jumped in and pulled the hole in after her, Victor Velcro, who was frightened but kept looking at me and "saying" I am not scared, no sir, not me. I'm with Aggie Marble. Tweed |
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:25:29 -0500, Karen Chuplis
wrote: One of our technicians was returning from Florida as the hurricane was coming in. He said there were just TONS of electric and power ultilities coming in from other states the whole time he was driving. I thought that was very organized! I'm glad you are all safe. Hope to hear from P.Cox soon. I'm a bit worried as their place sounds a bit on the less than sturdy side. I've worked for electric utilities for most of my working life. Sending crews to assist in disaster recovery (disaster = pretty much anything causing major damage or loss of electric services) is very common, all the disaster-local utilities have to do is ask for help. When I worked for a major utility in New Jersey we even sent crews up to Canada to help restore power after some major ice storms in Quebec. Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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