anyone heard from MAC DAVIS

Posted here 9/10 mid morning, and on rec.woodworking 9/11 about the same time.

Robert

I hope thats a good sign. I dont remember what day I saw this and with IKE going into texas they aint giving any info about anythig else!

skeez

The eye is coming onshore now and we expect it to be here (eye) around noon or 2 if guesses happen.

This one looks like it will be to the west of us - more rain for us and high speed circular coils of air and hail.

(Tried for some metal in the coils).

The last one, Rita, went to the East and was Cat 1 within 20-25 miles away if by eye edge or center... Plan to be ok. And have some plans if not.

Martin

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Thanks for the thought, but it was FAR away from us, mostly down at the southern tip by Cabo.. We got a little rain, (average here is 2" a year), and some wind, but mostly hot & humid like always this time of year..

Appreciate ya thinking of us!

mac

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kewl! glad to hear it.

skeez

Glad to hear you are alright Mac. We had our own little problems here in Cincinnati. Finally got power back on late last night. Been over 5 days w/o power, tv, etc., but I'm still feeling sorry for those still waiting on power. Over 1.2 million here lost power. Hopefully we can now get to helping pull the trees out of our neighbors' homes now.

Ain't life an adventure?

Mmm .. hot coffee .. good to be home.

`Casper

PS ... and the last thing on my mind this past week has been candidates who visited ONLY in the sections with power!

Wow.. we didn't even have problems like that in California!

Worst quake in my lifetime had our power out for 6 hours, but some folks went a week or more..

They're surprisingly efficient here, maybe because the power is government regulated..

During the Baja 1000 this year, a chopper flew into the main power line supplying our section of Baja.. Thousands of folks with no power.. They had it fixed and power restored in 6 hours!

mac

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Must have taken lessons from California.;>)

posting via Google since my posts via Teranews aren't getting through

- anyone else haviing teranews problems?

in the last big CA earthquake, I was in an area only lightly damaged - power was out for 3 days - I think the statement "YMMV" applies here

This is the worst area I have lived in for power. Fist few years (6?) we lived here power went out at least once a week, usually for just

1-4 hours at most. Supposedly they fixed the problem by replacing an underground line. Well the power doesn't go out once a week anymore but since last Feb 2007 it's gone out at least 12 times and for days (3+) at a time. I'd prefer the more frequent and shorter outages.

This year we've had three major outages, all because of wind and trees. Three homes on my street had trees crash thru the roof. This last outage had a telephone pole go thru the middle of one. Two belong to older retired couples on fixed incomes, which really sucks.

Much damage to homes; roofs ripped off, aluminum awnings ripped off, storage sheds tossed around. A few months ago we had 3 tornadoes touch down within a 2 mile area, of which one directly here rated a level '0'. The 50+ foot oak between my house and a neighbor broke big branches but hit my neighbor instead of me. It was luck of the wind. People are still repairing from that storm when this thing hit.

Honestly, I'm amazed at the power problems and outages. I grew up on the east coast (NY/NJ), even thru the big outage of 1973 and still it has been worse here.

I've been thru hurricanes no problem, but tornadoes are another thing. We've had 7 I think, one F3 during the night missing us by a few miles. It missed a co-worker's house by a quarter mile and his family never heard it. I believe there is nothing scarier than waking up and realizing you could have gone poof in the night with no warning. We've already begun looking for new area to move as soon as we can.

I've been watching footage of TX and I cannot fathom how difficult it is, and going to be, for those folks who lost everything. The violent weather we've had in the US in the last couple of years is just amazing. I've been hoping for a reprieve and am now even ready to perform pagan rituals if it will help stop bad weather and economy.

`Casper