Todd or anyone,
Does anyone know where the Binks live? I thought El Cajon. I had
someone enquire from out of
town.
Bill
TCame86712@aol.com wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Here is an e-mail I have from Greg Woelke, regarding the beckers. It's
> a forwarded e-mail directly from the Beckers to Greg, I believe.
>
> Todd
>
> Hi Todd, here's a e-mail with all the info in true Judy
> style. There at Jerry's sister's house. You wouldn't know were I
> could get
> a used 12A cheap do you? My daily driver died and I was going to give
> it to
> father Joe but if the Becker's need a car fixing it and giving it to them
> sounds like a good idea............Greg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bodaciousjudy@cox.net [mailto:bodaciousjudy@cox.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:56 PM
> To: sdr-scat@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [sdr-scat] CREST FIRE
>
>
> Hi all
> Well here we are at Jerry's sister's house. Real numb. We lost everything.
> My cell phone's been eratic-guess partly due to the high volume of calls,
> the battery running down & throw in the solar flare.
>
> In short I had a hunch to call & chat with a friend (with no idea of the
> fire situation.) She told me she was providing shelter to relatives &
> for me
> to check with our local Crest fire dept. I did, was told to call back in 1
> hr.
>
> Luckily, Jerry started emptying the van of race stuff. We then tried to
> figure out what we might need in case of evacuation. So some clothes,
> family
> pictures, momentos were loaded.
>
> Oh yes-also the cat. I again called the fire dept. & was told the
> evacuation
> order was on. By this time relatives arrived to help us load the van &
> ferry
> cars down into El Cajon. Less than about 2 hrs.time elapsed.
>
> In the meantime I went to a friend's house who also lives in Crest.
> She had
> no idea too about the fire. I told her to call & we'd get her help loading
> her things & shuffling her vehicles.
>
> All in all it was a modern day Hoah's Arc. What with my cat, her 2 dogs (a
> Doberman & Chihuahua), 1 cat, 4 birds & 2 guinea pigs.
>
> We've been camping at Pat's since Sun. afternoon. We were not able to
> return
> home til today-very agonizing.
>
> The town of Crest is absolutely devastated-looks like a bomb was dropped.
> Everything covered with ashes. The fire went indiscriminantly thru the
> area.
>
>
> Our house was leveled. Everything reduced to ashes. 4 cars lost plus total
> house contents. Jerry & I are numb (understatement).
>
> We're currently trying to contact the claims office of State Farm, FEMA,
> utitity companies & anyplace we can think of.
>
> I'm trying to keep my cell phone charged & will try to get phone
> company to
> for house # 579-2553 to it.
>
> Cell #619-820-4463. It's taken a few days for phones messages to reach my
> phone, so if you call please be patient.
>
> Jerry lost all his tools. He'd just gotten the engine dropped into
> race car
> & was in process of tuning it-ratz!
>
> One of the aluminum wheels was melted to about an 8" circle-almost looked
> like an angel outline.
>
> Well, we were going to re-roof anyway so I guess our higher power had
> other
> plans. We'll be looking at temporary living & rebuilding options.
>
> By the way, my friend's back at her house-thankfully it survived.
>
> Well, I guess I can close this novelette. We're both absolutely fatigued.
> Your well wishes are greatly appreciated. If we don't immediatley return
> calls be patinet-I'm making a list & will get back when time & energy
> allow.
>
> We're safe & so is the cat & that's what's important. As time goes on,
> I'll
> share some of the little miracle stories with you as well as beautiful
> acts
> of kindness I've seen given to people. Just amazing & so very touching
> considering the loss suffered by so many.
>
> My heartfelt sympathy goes to those who lost loved ones.
>
> We are so very fortunate to be alive.
>
> Take care & my deepest appreciation to you all for your well wishes.
> Judy
> ps-just before I left the house I spotted my helmet & left it. Darn-it was
> just getting broken in fit wise. Ah well.
>
> ps2-I'll probably use Pat's computer to access my cox.net account but
> won't
> be able to do so on a daily basis & will return posts as soon as possible
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