Posted on 09/12/2008 11:29:13 PM PDT by NautiNurse
I would like to know what happened to the people living in Oak Island. I spent a lot of time there and knew the type of people living there. Very few would have left.
The souls that have passed deserve dignity, along with living family. Amen.
Oh good! The Mom showering? LOL..
Glad y’all are safe.
FR’s acting real funky the last day...
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Reminds my of the terrible tsunami photos in Indonesia. I do remember seeing a number of bodies in the water in those photos. I havn’t seen any yet in the photos, but perhaps they are being censored. Hope the bring in the cadaver dogs quickly.
Awe is right. Over and over we are hearing stories of the stronger helping the older and young.
Excellent site .. trying to
get some location references.
Holy Moses!
I heard a report last year that we are not getting the true fatality statistics on Iraq and Afghanistan either. Apparently you are only a war casualty if you die in country. It you get shipped to Germany and die in a hospital a few days later, it doesn’t count. All those names on the Vietnam wall, are they only the ones who died in country? Does anyone know?
Glad to hear electric is back.
My bosses daughters evacuated thurs and came to Dallas.
The homes are ok but there is no electric as of this afternoon.
I heard a report last year that we are not getting the true fatality statistics on Iraq and Afghanistan either. Apparently you are only a war casualty if you die in country. It you get shipped to Germany and die in a hospital a few days later, it doesn’t count. All those names on the Vietnam wall, are they only the ones who died in country? Does anyone know?
Picture this . . . around 1:00 am the storm starts hitting at our house. As hard as we tried we could not stay awake to watch the damage, so we head for bed. At 1:30 our son calls to ask us what is happening with the storm, told him I have no clue because I was trying to go to sleep! We try to go back to sleep (lulled by the strong winds), at 2:00 we hear a thump/crash . . . from what we could tell it was part of the side fence falling. Around 2:30, just at the point of falling asleep, we hear thump/crash/thump . . . . this was the remaining part of the side fence falling. At this point neither of us could sleep, so we watch the FR hurricane thread and the steaming video of the local news stations (our cable went out many hours ago). Beginning about 3:00 am the power was spotty ~ finally going away at 4:00 am. With nothing else to do we head to bed, it was around 4:30 am when I finally went to sleep. At 6:30 am I receive a text message from my sister asking how we were doing (I did not respond at that time cause I was lacking sleep). At 7:30 am I received a phone call from a dear friend that I could not blow off . . . it took me a few minutes to clear my head, but I gave her a basic break down of what happened.
Saturday morning we did our best clear our minimal damage & prop the entire fence line (both sides & the back side was messed up). After the clean up was complete was done we were totally bored!!
We offered our chain saw to one neighbor . . . but found out that one of the strays had stolen & pawned said chainsaw (Gunner ~ I know where to find this scum!)
After 64 hours without power I am a happy person!!!
God Speed to the rest of Houston . . . .
Glad to be back and thanks for your storm incite too.
Great report! Hope you are caught up on your sleep now. Glad to have you back. :o)
I may need to get the name of your roofer later if you don’t mind. That way I get someone trustworthy.
Almost home now. Just went through baytown...thanks again for your help.
I may need to get the name of your roofer later if you don’t mind. That way I get someone trustworthy.
Almost home now. Just went through baytown...thanks again for your help.
I think the poem goes something like this.
For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the king was lost.
For want of the king the battle was lost.
For want of the battle the kingdom was lost.
All for the want of a nail!
One thing that continues to amaze me is the interviews with people who say they have no food. They had weeks to stock up, and could certainly carry some canned goods with them even if they have to evacuate. These did not look like people who fled through flood waters after their houses collapsed.
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