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hope all my friends to the south survived the recent rough weather
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Softens your hands while you do the dishes - You're soaking in it!!!!
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we should do this every weekend!
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Lucked out here. Windy with a lot of lightning, some small limbs down, but no real issues in the immediate area.
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Check Pants
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I woke up to the news & various film reports.
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hope all my friends to the south survived the recent rough weather
Definitley!
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Praying for all of your safety.
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. - Charles Dickens
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Praying for all of your safety.
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hope all my friends to the south survived the recent rough weather
For sure!!
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They're saying it's the worst in 40 years.
Yep, as Keith said...for sure.
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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+1
(So 41 years ago it was this bad or worse. According to the news its pretty bad.)
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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(So 41 years ago it was this bad or worse. According to the news its pretty bad.)
Yeah, but not only THAT Chad, but can you imagine being a black man down there in the south 40 years ago when those things hit 'em???!!!
Ya see, I'm thinkin' they might've still had separate Tornado shelters down there, and the ones for the BLACK folks might not have been quite as well built as those for the WHITE folks!!!
(...sorry if I've brought up a little of our American history here which some people might like to forget!!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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And Friar...if anybody takes offense to the above, please feel free to delete it! Heck, if anybody mentions in this thread that they're offended, I'LL delete it!!!! (...you know me, insensitive jerk that I am, I just couldn't resist postin' that...PC I AIN'T!!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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That was kind of my point. I imagine that they reported it being bad as it related to ..................those not affected by ugly ole Jim Crow. So the reality is that it was likely much worse.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Oh! Then I didn't catch your reference there. (...and that might be 'cause you're a little more subtle than I am...well, maybe not USUALLY, but maybe in THIS case anyway!!!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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So John, then I take it this is YOUR "subtle way" of sayin' I probably didn't GROSSLY cross any line of acceptable behavior around here with the above, EH?!  (...you "subtle" devil, you!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Ugh... 
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Last September I stopped at the Boss Hog Bar-B-Que in Reform Alabama for some ribs. Just got done fighting the Crimson Tide traffic (hosting San Jose) in Tuscaloosa. Nice folks at the Boss Hoss, better ribs (and lots of them too). Only thing was that the bathroom was not fit for even washing hands! Point? Well I could never have eaten in that joint back in the Jim Crow days. Good riddance I say! Thoughts and prayers to those in the tornado ravaged areas.
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I really hope everyone is faring well down there. I have heard there is a great amount of devastation. 
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Our best wishes to anyone caught up in the tragedy of these storms "up there." Hopefully not too many lives destroyed.
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It's not good in my neighborhood but I won't be able to make a sight report until Sunday (I'm in NH, MA and PA this weekend). So far 30 dead, lots of folks missing including two of our neighbors and no power for at least 5 days as the big high voltage transmission lines are down. Massive damage to the next little town over from us and at least one nearby rural neighborhood has disappeared. My wife and I are so lucky that our place wasn't touched but I get a strong feeling our lives will have been changed forever.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Hope all our BA folk are OK
+1 and everyone else of course
Going OT, anyone know how Hoffo coped in the Queensland floods? Weren't they near him?
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Fortunately, those winds were still going straight when they came through here. It was a bit freaky when gusts sounded like a freight train in the roof at work.
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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I expect I'll be riding through Tuscaloosa next Wednesday or Thursday.....unless I hear I should re-route.
I sure hope everyone we all know survived intact, and God Bless those who need a little help right now.
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Fortunately, those winds were still going straight when they came through here. It was a bit freaky when gusts sounded like a freight train in the roof at work.
Same here, I have heard tornados in person before and the freight train noise the wind made here woke me from a sound sleep and scared the crap outa me. I looked outside prepared for it to be a tornado, luckily it wasn't. Did have some close to me though with deaths reported.
Hope your friends turn up OK Ed.
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It's not good in my neighborhood but I won't be able to make a sight report until Sunday (I'm in NH, MA and PA this weekend). So far 30 dead, lots of folks missing including two of our neighbors and no power for at least 5 days as the big high voltage transmission lines are down. Massive damage to the next little town over from us and at least one nearby rural neighborhood has disappeared. My wife and I are so lucky that our place wasn't touched but I get a strong feeling our lives will have been changed forever.
We will keep a good thought for you and yours Ed and all your neighbors. We were lucky here... just a scare with my daughter at college as the same cells that devastated Cartersville passed nearby to her (and to Chy and Di). Let us know if we can do anything for you.
Thom
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you guys all stay safe down there
Always remember to be yourself. Unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else.
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Praying for all of your safety.
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Let us know if we can do anything for you.
Thanks buddy we're going to be okay. One of my neighbors and his son moved my generator from my shop to the house so Harriet has access to electricity but she'll have to ration it until a local gas station comes back online. I might have to trek over to GA to refuel if no joy by Sunday (that's when I get back). Our friends in Rainsville are really hurting, though, and it's a bad feeling to be away and not to be able to help.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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I've got a cousin that lives in Hayden who we can't get ahold of yet. They're truckers, so I'm hoping they are on the road.
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Roadie, I can sympathise with ya. Ike and Rita left me in the same condition. If I can do something let me know. I'll do my best.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Rainsville? Now there is irony.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
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I got home from the northeast last evening. My place was spared any damage, just a power blackout for the weekend.
I purposely took a route that would allow me see the affected area on the mountain plateau above my house. About two miles from us is a half mile wide swath that stripped everything from the earth; houses, tress, vehicles, vegetation...just 10 foot tall stumps and remnants of foundations and ruble. No matter if your place was brick or manufactured housing nothing remains.
It just so very sobering. Like a moonscape with tree stumps and debris. A pile of rubble that used to be a very big church, an auto shop that's only a knee high wall of cinder block...you get the idea. It's very disorienting because all of the familiar landmarks are gone; even though I know the area I couldn't tell where I was.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Soooo, it's kinda like Detroit then, huh Ed???!!! (...sorry, couldn't resist) Actually of course, I'm VERY glad to hear your property was spared from all that, and even MORE of course, that you and your family are unscathed! 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Soooo, it's kinda like Detroit then, huh Ed???!!!
Nah, Detroit is much nicer and cleaner 
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Soooo, it's kinda like Detroit then, huh Ed???!!!
Nah, Detroit is much nicer and cleaner
Haven't been across the Michigan state line for a while, eh Ed?!
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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