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Title: Back on the Internet....
Post by Ray on Sep 17^th, 2008 at 6:28pm

Hello Clusterville:

I missed you guys. The remnants of Hurricane Ike combined with a strong system up near the great lakes to blow sustained winds of 55 miles per hour and gusts up to 75 miles per hour here.

Here is Columbus, OH. We faired pretty well, but power was out from Sunday about 3 PM until about 6 PM today. We lost some shingles and one piece of siding off the house and garage. Others had more damage, particularly from trees. We have a City Light pole at a 45 degree angle (leaning toward our yard). As it is not "down" the city has other priorities. What is funny, to us, is that the removed the "ONE WAY" signs from the pole and put it on a metal pole (so the drivers wouldn't want to launch into the sky, I guess).

That's all the news that is fit to print, other than the grill sure has been getting a workout and the local teenagers are camping out in our back yard, since school's been closed for the past 3 days.

Wishing you all well,

Ray

Title: Re: Back on the Internet....
Post by Barry_T_Coles on Sep 17^th, 2008 at 7:03pm

Hi Ray
Glad you got through OK.

Reading your post was like, I been there done that, a couple of cyclone seasons ago “2004 TC Monty” we lost the power for 5 days, it was a bit like camping out without going anywhere.
Thank god for portable generators, gotta keep the beer cold somehow.

Cheers
Barry

Title: Re: Back on the Internet....
Post by thebbz on Sep 17^th, 2008 at 7:28pm

Glad your back in one piece Ray.
all the best
thebb

Title: Re: Back on the Internet....
Post by barry_sword on Sep 17^th, 2008 at 7:40pm

Glad to hear you guy's are ok, must have been scary. I mean having the teenagers in your back yard that is! ;)

Happy all is good. :)

Title: Re: Back on the Internet....
Post by Jonny on Sep 17^th, 2008 at 7:42pm

Just think, Ray....you got to miss the 20 hours the board was more or less down and no one could post.....LOL ;)

Good to have you back! :)

Title: Re: Back on the Internet....
Post by DennisM1045 on Sep 17^th, 2008 at 8:36pm

Glad to hear you made it through in one piece...

-Dennis-

Title: Re: Back on the Internet....
Post by Ray on Sep 18^th, 2008 at 8:05pm

Thanks for the comments.

One plus is that I'm working some hours cutting up downed trees and cleaning. I can sure use the work!

Wishing you all well,

Ray

Title: Re: Back on the Internet....
Post by Jonny on Sep 18^th, 2008 at 8:34pm

Ray wrote on Sep 18^th, 2008 at 8:05pm:

One plus is that I'm working some hours cutting up downed trees and cleaning.

Excellent news!!! [smiley=headbanger.gif]