In article <ZYIHg.11911$w7.421@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, RicSeyler
<ricseyler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> inez wrote:
>
> >On 8/23/06 11:45 PM, CMP commented:
> >
> >
> >
> >>In article <C1121B23.54E1B%inezhsmith@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, inez
> >><inezhsmith@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>On 8/23/06 5:52 AM, SpaceGirl commented:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Wow inez. That was quite moving (no sarcasm). Well said, well said!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>Thanks;)
> >>>
> >>>Sometimes I do get my undies in a bundle... Ha! I just get a little
extra
> >>>peeved these days with folks like the OP, hoax or not. So many folks
around
> >>>here are despairing in limbo; stuck between the insurance companies,
fed &
> >>>local government, rising prices and no solid answers. It's so
> >>>disheartening,
> >>>and I know just how lucky I am.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>More power to you, Inez! I doubt the weasel will even read your post
> >>(doubt there IS a "Ray"), but it felt damn good to read. You kick
ass!!
> >>: )
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I doubt it too, but a lazy hoax seemed almost worse than a beggars
spam. I
> >did respond mostly out of frustration, not on my behalf but for my
region
> >and for everyone honestly struggling out there. Felt good to get it off
my
> >chest;)
> >
> >
> >
> >>How's it going? Haven't heard from you in a while . . . you still
> >>iChatting?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Haven't been on iChat. I've been too dead tired lately. I had hoped I
would
> >adjust easier/faster to this outside job, but I guess I really am an
ol'
> >woman. When did that happen? ;¬)
> >
> >
> >
> >>"Surviving Katrina" is coming on DSC in a few days (Sunday, I'm pretty
> >>sure) and every time I see the ads for it, I think of you.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I'm not one of the real *survivors* as we just suffer side affects from
> >Katrina's aftermath. I just don't want the rest of the US to forget
about
> >the Gulf Coast. I have no idea how much or how little about the Gulf's
> >current status is being broadcast nationally. I hope a little truth is
> >getting out there.
> >
> >
> We are STILL torn up everywhere from IVAN in '04, plus the damage Dennis
> & Katrina did.
> It's a frikkin mess here. Blue Roofs, downed trees and rubble everywhere
> still. And the beach
> is still trashed from Ivan.
Ivan hit us, too. But what got us more than the winds (cause of the
"condo" sea walls) was approximately 8 tornadoes that tore up and down
our major roads, hitting mobile homes (what else?), businesses, and
smaller homes.
The worst disaster I think I've personally seen in a long time was the
freak tornado that demolished most of the town where I lived. Well,
that's not fair to say - we were actually on the road down from MD when
it happened (moving here).
It was a freak Supercell F-5 that almost completely destroyed La Plata,
MD. No warning - that kind of thing's not typical for that area.
Tornadoes are typically the tiny ones that land out in the trees
somewhere, take a tree, and vanish.
After the big tornado, the home that we had lived in (and already sold)
was about two feet tall - completely destroyed. One of my best friends
had just left a local KFC, began strapping her kids into their car
seats, looked up, and the KFC was GONE. No one was killed though. All
in all, that devastating tornado only killed 3 people - it should have
been so much worse, though. So glad it wasn't.
--
Connie
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