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Post by Vidtek on Sept 22, 2005 10:19:35 GMT -5
Hey folks, my wife and I are on the run! Not from the law, but from one monster storm. In case you didn't know my wife and I live in the Houston area, and so yesterday afternoon we evacuated up to her mom's house in Dallas to wait out and see how things go down. Just wanted to mention it, as I know sometime's I'm liked on this board and people might miss me the few day's I'm not online (thankfully got to a public library this morning, that's how I'm posting now).
I DID take my GWF, CPC, aCe, LWF and all my old cards and charts with me (I have my priorities), but I unfortunatly did leave all the handbooks and Tom's book back at the house. Who knows maybe the wind will blow it up here to me? HAHA, anyway, just a quick notice to let ya'll know the situation. Hope it all goes well.
Big Time.
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Post by ringsyde on Sept 22, 2005 14:29:12 GMT -5
God bless you, your family and everybody in the path of the beast. I for one am glad to hear you made it out safely. I'll hope for a quick return to an undamaged home for you and the Mrs..
On that note, I'm praying that Rita doesn't claim any more lives or property than we've already lost with Katrina. I hope everyone makes it out okay and returns home quickly.
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Post by gwffantrav on Sept 22, 2005 21:47:33 GMT -5
I second that RinsYde.
My wife and myself have always talked about how fortunate we are to live in Louisville, KY. We may have a occassional tornado, but they usually hit in the flat counties outside of ours.
We've had a flood before, but our flood consisted of maybe 2-3 of water in our basement due to the city government not opening the flood gates in time during a rain.
So I do feel for alot of people living on the coast lines, or in earthquake heavy areas, or the mid-west with all of the tornados.
Also, like you, I talked to my wife about what we would take if we knew a hurricane hit. First, would be our child and pets. She would take her pics and scrapbooks. I, of course, said I would be packing up all of my GWF stuff. So I guess I got my priorities straight...jk
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Post by Vidtek on Sept 25, 2005 18:31:00 GMT -5
Thanks for the well wishes guys. The little woman and I just made it back to town after 6 hours of hell driving back here. Ugh. Maybe next time we'll just take our chances with the storm. Haha. Anyway, back safe and sound now, lots of small limbs and leaves around, but otherwise damage free. BAck to life as normal down here on the third coast.
Big Time
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Post by neil on Sept 25, 2005 18:45:15 GMT -5
glad to hear you folks are okay.
neil
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Post by gwffantrav on Sept 26, 2005 7:19:50 GMT -5
I still think people may be in a panic mode (and not to say they shouldn't). I just think the problem with New Orleans is that it's below sea level.
Glad to hear your safe though....
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Post by Vidtek on Sept 26, 2005 8:43:32 GMT -5
Trav you have a point. But she was (at the time we left) a Cat. 5 huricane, and the (I thinkn it was) second most powerful storm on record. With the storm track seding it straight up I-45 (the main highway in these parts), us getting the heck outa Dodge wasn't such a bad idea at the time. Yeah in retrospect maybe we should have stayed, but I don't fault my wife or others for wanting to get out of the storm's way. New Orleans is below sea level yes, that's why the levy breaking was such a disaster, but truth be told had that levy not broken the city's pump system more than likely would have taken care of any flooding the storm itself brought. It wasn't Katrina that did the flooding, but she did beak the levy.
There is a lot of wind damage in our area, lots of limbs and trees down and a few power polls down south of here. My wife's job still didn't have electricity as of yesterday afternoon. So maybe the whole city packing up and heading north wasn't such a good idea in hindsight, but better safe then sorry.
Big Time
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Post by pikemojo on Sept 30, 2005 17:19:41 GMT -5
It is always better to be safe than sorry. I don't understand the people in New Orleans who didn't get their families out of there when they knew that a dangerous storm was coming their way.
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Post by gwffantrav on Sept 30, 2005 17:25:20 GMT -5
I guess you guys are right. LIke I said in another post, I'm lucky enough to live in Louisville, KY where we rarely experience any huge natural disasters (maybe a occassional tornado, but they usually hit the outside counties of us)
Glad to see you're OK though. And glad to see your priorities were straight, grabbing your COTG stuff!! (Because I'd grab them too, well, after my little guy and dog!!!!)
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Post by Shon Maxx on Oct 4, 2005 15:16:31 GMT -5
Glad you and your family are okay. We went through that last year. And though I won't begin to describe it as disastrous (what we went through) after what New Orleans went through this year, I still remember being pretty concerned, espeically for those I knew who had stayed behind.
Good to see you have your priorities straight as well. We know what Tom would be like if we fled without the game, "Glad you made it out safe...what??? What do you mean you forgot your LOW set? Go back now and get it! Well drive around the trees!"
(Just kidding, Tom)
Jay
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Post by swarm on Oct 8, 2005 2:40:59 GMT -5
good luck man.
swarm
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