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Tue, 05 April 2011 07:35  |
Patrick Flowers
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Severe thunderstorms in the Atlanta area last night and Comcast service was down this morning. Server was running this morning when I left the house and should come back on line as soon as service is restored.
Patrick
Patrick Flowers
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| Re: [GMCnet] Email Listserver Status [message #120941 is a reply to message #120928] |
Tue, 05 April 2011 11:10  |
Patrick Flowers
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Now Roger, I wouldn't do that. I might think about it, but I wouldn't
intentionally DO it...
Pretty rough night in Georgia. Upwards of 180,000 lost power during the
night. Morning drive-time talking heads claimed over half had been
restored. Fortunately for us, the north side of town took the brunt of
it. Mostly just noise and rain down on the south side. I figure either a
direct strike or spike took out one of Comcast's boxes.
On Tue, April 5, 2011 11:23 am, Roger Black wrote:
> Shucks, Patrick, thought you might have cut us off cold turkey,
> intervention style. {:>)
> Roger Black
> 77 Birchaven
> Burns, Tn
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| Re: [GMCnet] Email Listserver Status [message #121010 is a reply to message #120941] |
Tue, 05 April 2011 20:49 |
Ken Henderson
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I was in Stockbridge last night at my daughter's home to avoid driving from
Americus in morning traffic for a Dr. appt. in downtown Atlanta. Last night
was fearsome -- I don't know that I've ever heard/seen more violent
thunderstorms even in SEA. But we had no hail nor damage there, and they
passed very quickly.
Then, this morning, my son, Alan, called from Macon (80 mi S. of Atlanta) to
say that a tornado passed through their yard (and a few neighbors) last
night. Fortunately, there was insignificant damage to the house. But the
yard was devastated. No injuries at all, but just barely: Alan was
standing in the sun room watching the storm when the windows began to
vibrate so he moved to an interior room. Just as he got clear, the window
he left flew across the room and came to rest, unbroken, against the big
aquarium there -- also undamaged. He rushed the family from their upstairs
bedrooms, but by then it was all over. Their safety is so wonderful that
the yard damage barely even counts.
Their home is on 3+ acres and is (WAS) surrounded with big trees for the 200
yards from the street. I was shocked when I got there: 30+ trees down, at
least half of them 12+" in diameter. Oaks, pines, poplars, willows,
dogwoods. 1/2 uprooted, others with trunks twisted off, or just snapped
over. In addition there are a lot of others twisted/broken off 20-30' above
the ground.
Alan, my son-in-land, and I spent all afternoon with 3 chain saws going just
to make the driveway passable. They're taking the whole thing with amazing
patience: Tonight the family is attending the play for which they had
tickets. Alan has business to attend to tomorrow and insisted that we go
ahead and depart for Patterson. After we return, we'll get the tractor and
chipper from the farm and get to work in earnest. I don't know what we'll
do with the hundreds of feet of 12"+ diameter logs -- they don't use their
fireplace.
With power still off (forecast back on by 5 PM on the 7th), they're sleeping
in the GMC, which was unscathed. Its Onan has run all day to provide power
for the refrigerator and the electric chain saw with which my grandson was
trimming limbs.
Oh yeah, I'd stopped by there yesterday and picked up a load of large wiring
diagrams to bring to Patterson -- Y'all get yours there! :-)
Ken H.
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:45 PM, <patrick@gmcmotorhome.com> wrote:
> ...
> Pretty rough night in Georgia. Upwards of 180,000 lost power during the
> night. Morning drive-time talking heads claimed over half had been
> restored. Fortunately for us, the north side of town took the brunt of
> it. Mostly just noise and rain down on the south side. I figure either a
> direct strike or spike took out one of Comcast's boxes.
> ...
>
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| Re: [GMCnet] Email Listserver Status [message #121012 is a reply to message #121010] |
Tue, 05 April 2011 20:51 |
Ken Henderson
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"Alan, my son-in-land, and I spent all afternoon...". Not really: my SIL
really only owns a 1 acre home lot, not "...land...".
Ken H.
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Ken Henderson <hend4800@bellsouth.net>wrote:
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> Alan, my son-in-land, and I spent all afternoon
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| Re: [GMCnet] Email Listserver Status [message #121039 is a reply to message #121038] |
Wed, 06 April 2011 07:46 |
C Boyd
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| PettyVTX wrote on Wed, 06 April 2011 08:34 |
Lots of trees down in Winder.
Hi everyone Im a newbie
Ted
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Good morning Ted.. Welcome.... I have a SIL in Winder. What kinda coach you got???
C. Boyd
76 Crestmont
East Tennessee
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| Re: [GMCnet] Email Listserver Status [message #121040 is a reply to message #121039] |
Wed, 06 April 2011 08:03 |
PettyVTX
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Thanks
I Just got a 75 Avion last month and im still trying to get it back on the road. It had been sitting for awhile. Took it out for a 20 mile run to see how everything was working. Im Looking forward to finally get to do some site seeing
Ted
Ex Avion now looking for a 23'
Jeep Wrangler Towd
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| Re: [GMCnet] Email Listserver Status [message #121044 is a reply to message #121040] |
Wed, 06 April 2011 08:12 |
C Boyd
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| PettyVTX wrote on Wed, 06 April 2011 09:03 |
Thanks
I Just got a 75 Avion last month and im still trying to get it back on the road. It had been sitting for awhile. Took it out for a 20 mile run to see how everything was working. Im Looking forward to finally get to do some site seeing
Ted
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We sure enjoy ours. Here are a few pics.
http://tinyurl.com/3xcs8j
C. Boyd
76 Crestmont
East Tennessee
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| Re: [GMCnet] Email Listserver Status [message #121178 is a reply to message #121010] |
Thu, 07 April 2011 06:55 |
Richard Denney
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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Ken Henderson <hend4800@bellsouth.net>wrote:
> Oh yeah, I'd stopped by there yesterday and picked up a load of large
> wiring
> diagrams to bring to Patterson -- Y'all get yours there! :-)
>
Well, thank goodness for that. For a second there, I thought you'd let your
priorities get all out of whack.
Last June, a thunderstorm rolled through. Our forest of eastern white pines
has the storm resistance of a field of tall grass being driven over by a
tank, and this one knocked down half a dozen of them. This has happened
every year we've lived there. In this case, however, three of the 80-foot
trees, two of which are 50 feet from the house, broke and fell towards the
house. They broke 30 feet up from the ground. We had been in town and it
took us three hours to cover the ten miles to the house because all the
roads were blocked with downed trees and power lines. Again, this happens
just about every year.
I grew up in Houston and lived my whole life in Texas until 1998, and never
saw storm damage there like I see here all the time. But the closest tornado
we've had was a baby that crossed our road about a quarter mile to our west.
We rode that one out in the basement, and the next day, by flashlight, I
installed a transfer switch subpanel and bought an emergency generator.
I'm eventually gonna have to move back to Texas to get away from this
violent weather.
Rick "nervously eyeing the dozen or so pine trees that are closer to the
house than they are tall" Denney
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Northern Virginia
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| Re: [GMCnet] Email Listserver Status [message #121179 is a reply to message #121178] |
Thu, 07 April 2011 07:08 |
gmcrv1
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Rick,
I grew up in NJ and we did have some "Noreasters" roll through and many
times in winter the forecast for "flurries" would turn into a foot of the
white stuff or more. I moved to the Memphis area about eight years ago. I
can't believe the number and strength of the storms coming through. This
last one took down an old dead tree - some of the branches hit the top of
the GMC. Waiting to the insurance adjuster...
Tom Eckert N2VWN
73 Glacier
Oakland, TN
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Richard Denney <rwdenney@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Ken Henderson <hend4800@bellsouth.net
> >wrote:
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> > Oh yeah, I'd stopped by there yesterday and picked up a load of large
> > wiring
> > diagrams to bring to Patterson -- Y'all get yours there! :-)
> >
>
> Well, thank goodness for that. For a second there, I thought you'd let your
> priorities get all out of whack.
>
> Last June, a thunderstorm rolled through. Our forest of eastern white pines
> has the storm resistance of a field of tall grass being driven over by a
> tank, and this one knocked down half a dozen of them. This has happened
> every year we've lived there. In this case, however, three of the 80-foot
> trees, two of which are 50 feet from the house, broke and fell towards the
> house. They broke 30 feet up from the ground. We had been in town and it
> took us three hours to cover the ten miles to the house because all the
> roads were blocked with downed trees and power lines. Again, this happens
> just about every year.
>
> I grew up in Houston and lived my whole life in Texas until 1998, and never
> saw storm damage there like I see here all the time. But the closest
> tornado
> we've had was a baby that crossed our road about a quarter mile to our
> west.
> We rode that one out in the basement, and the next day, by flashlight, I
> installed a transfer switch subpanel and bought an emergency generator.
>
> I'm eventually gonna have to move back to Texas to get away from this
> violent weather.
>
> Rick "nervously eyeing the dozen or so pine trees that are closer to the
> house than they are tall" Denney
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> --
> '73 230 "Jaws"
> Northern Virginia
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