[Bricklin] Hurricane Irene

[John T. Blair]

Hey gang,

Well the day broke sunny and clear.  The storm finally passed sometime after
3:30 am.   The real supprising thing is we only lost power for 3 
minutes.  Usually
it's at least 24 hrs.  And this time I was prepaired with ice, tons 
of it.  The day
before  Irene was to hit (Thur.) I bought 2 10# bags and put them in 
my large cooler, then put all my bottled water in the freezer and 
from them (about 20 bottles).  Threw them in the cooler - actually 
ice chest.  Then filled all the glad
food storage containers we had with water and froze them.  I was prepaired.
Isabel cost me about $600 if spoiled food.

We were very lucky, only a little damage in the immediate 
neighborhood.  So I've spent the morning cutting up a neighbors tree 
that fell.  After we got it sliced and
diced he realized he lost his bracelet.  So we moved the pile of tree 
20 feet in to the culdesac, looking for the bracelet.  No luck, so 
move it back.  Then rake up our yard to get all the small twiggs, 
pine cones, etc and 2 other neighbors yards.
Then the fellow across the street could not get his daughters car to 
run.  So I
went over and fixed that.  A fuel pump relay.  Luckily have have 
plenty of the bosh automotive type relays laying around.

Man am I pooped!!!!  I guess I should be in an Army commercial - 
because I still haven't had breakfast yet - and its now 3:30 pm. :)

Hope those further up the East coast make out as well.


John
John T. Blair  WA4OHZ     email:  jblair1948 at cox.net
Va. Beach, Va
Phone:  (757) 495-8229

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