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Subject: RE: BS: We Got the Weather 'Bomb' Tonight... From: Bobert Date: 04 Jul 12 - 10:09 PM No problem, Rap... Get the shine here and we'll talk... B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: We Got the Weather 'Bomb' Tonight... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 04 Jul 12 - 10:14 PM Sending shine to North Carolina? Know anyone in Newcastle looking for coal? :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: We Got the Weather 'Bomb' Tonight... From: ChanteyLass Date: 05 Jul 12 - 06:44 PM Bill D. and Spaw, too? That wind really did woosh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: We Got the Weather 'Bomb' Tonight... From: Jack the Sailor Date: 05 Jul 12 - 07:13 PM More than 600 miles from my house to Spaw's. |
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Subject: RE: BS: We Got the Weather 'Bomb' Tonight... From: Bill D Date: 05 Jul 12 - 07:57 PM If you saw the video of the radar track of that storm, it was really scary-awesome watching it sweep across the country from Indiana/Ohio to W. Virgina and Maryland and on to N.Carolina. I have a weather program that shows 'current' radar, but having little warning, I wasn't watching 'live'. We knew nothing until sudden sheet-lightning & thunder were upon us... then *ZAP*.. no lights. Here are several photos of The main street paralleling us (Connecticut Ave.)3 days after the storm. This kept our HMO dark and made it a 40 minute drive to get a prescription ...instead of 3 minutes. Today, many places are still without power....in kind of a patchy way. One side of the street may be fine, and the other dark. One friend had a tree take out the wires to the house- which means they are WAY down the list for service...after work is done to major feeder lines. The are staying with family. Ain't Nature....ummmm... fickle? |
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Subject: RE: BS: We Got the Weather 'Bomb' Tonight... From: Ebbie Date: 05 Jul 12 - 08:30 PM "Ain't Nature....ummmm... fickle?" Yeh. Fickled some people plumb to death. |
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Subject: RE: BS: We Got the Weather 'Bomb' Tonight... From: Rapparee Date: 05 Jul 12 - 09:07 PM Wood, Bill. You got wood. Free for the taking. |
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Subject: RE: BS: We Got the Weather 'Bomb' Tonight... From: Bill D Date: 05 Jul 12 - 10:35 PM I am up to my clavicle in wood... |
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Subject: RE: BS: We Got the Weather 'Bomb' Tonight... From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Jul 12 - 11:19 PM If it had happened in Chongo's home back in "the old country", you'd be up to your neck in mangos. |
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Subject: RE: BS: We Got the Weather 'Bomb' Tonight... From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 05 Jul 12 - 11:26 PM Bobert, the DH had a great idea about that tree that fell in the flower bed. Carve a seat out of it and leave it as a place to sit and admire the flowers. It's not as effortless as my sign that says Ground-dwelling Woodpecker Habitat, but then he works with engineers, and engineers always have to do it right. Gnu, when we see the crab-apple tree covered with thousands of pink buds and then white blooms, and when we sit at our table and watch the cardinals and blue jays outside the window, it's worth the $175. |
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Subject: RE: BS: We Got the Weather 'Bomb' Tonight... From: Pete Jennings Date: 06 Jul 12 - 08:57 AM Glad you're okay Bobs. Can you reach the mistletoe now? (!). |
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Subject: RE: BS: We Got the Weather 'Bomb' Tonight... From: Bobert Date: 06 Jul 12 - 02:23 PM Well, this morning was the moment of truth... Mr. Chainsaw and I ventured into the main planting bed where the top 30 feet of a 100 foot oak was resting over an area 30 X 20... All I could see were oak leaves and limbs and one or two of the P-Vine's rare azaleas... I worked like a surgeon for 2 hours in there and was amazed over and over at how that tree fell so that almost everything was safe under that mass... It now all cleaned and raked out and out of the 25 or so plants the P-Vine had under that mess all but two came out of the deal with little or no damage... The two that sustained heavy damage (one oak leaf hydrangea and my favorite azalea) will live but are now half the size they were prior to the event... That's the latest chapter of "How I Spent the Summer"... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: We Got the Weather 'Bomb' Tonight... From: Bobert Date: 16 Jul 12 - 02:40 PM Finally got everything cleaned up in the yard... Cut the tops outta the trees that fell in the woods and will wait 'til Fall to cut them up... Latest count: 19 oaks, 4 hickory... Might have the hickories sold to Big Bob of Big Bob's BBQ... Reckon there's about 4 cord and he pays $200 a cord cut into 24" logs and split... I can do that... 4 X $200 = $800 - $50 for log splitter and $200 to neighbor's kid to help = $550 net... Hmmmmmm??? Lotta work so far but to drive up to the house you wouldn't know anything happened... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: We Got the Weather 'Bomb' Tonight... From: gnu Date: 16 Jul 12 - 03:37 PM Atr least some sunshine after the storm. |
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Subject: RE: BS: We Got the Weather 'Bomb' Tonight... From: katlaughing Date: 16 Jul 12 - 03:40 PM That's so sad, Bobert. I love trees, esp. the old oaks of back East. I hope you still have plenty of them standing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: We Got the Weather 'Bomb' Tonight... From: ChanteyLass Date: 16 Jul 12 - 06:42 PM You've been busy, Bobert. |
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Subject: RE: BS: We Got the Weather 'Bomb' Tonight... From: Bobert Date: 16 Jul 12 - 06:52 PM Yup, I was just thinking that I'm working harder now than at any time in my life... I'm beat... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: We Got the Weather 'Bomb' Tonight... From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 17 Jul 12 - 11:59 AM Take it easy, drink a bunch of water. I'm glad you didn't get heat stroke. |
