Hey Tony, Thank God you people are OK. Seen the Disaster on TV News.
Regards.
Jim Knox
91 Dak
Toronto, Canada
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Cellana" <acellan1@tampabay.rr.com>
To: "RTML RTML" <dakotart@yahoogroups.com>; "DML" <dml@dakota-truck.net>;
<Dakotart-exec@yahoogroups.com>; <dakotarthotrods@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 9:30 AM
Subject: DML: Hurricane Charlie UPDATE
>
> Well As you heard, I made it through fine.
>
> I live on a salt water canal 1/2 mile off Tampa Bay and we were expecting
up
> to 14 feet of water (1 story house = rafters).
>
> Thursday and Friday were spent raising crap up off the floors. And moving
> my two R/Ts to a safer location. My 98 Sport (dead at the moment) got a
> ghetto 16" quick lift (Concrete blocks). Friday afternoon was spent
> studying the TV and radar. Then the big news came, it was turning inland
> 80-100 miles south of me.
>
> Saturday and Sunday were spent reassembling the house and doing a major
> cleanup and spring cleaning. With everything stacked up (couch on
> nightstands, love seat on top of that, Viper seats on top at the ceiling,
> alum heads on top of the wall unit....) it was time to clean the parts of
> the floor that never see sunlight, clean windows, trash unnecessary crap.
>
> Then my PC didn't want to work once I reconnected it, got it up and
running
> last night.
>
> I'm glad to be back, glad I had NO damage, but feeling sorry for all those
> in the path and with damage to their stuff. It was a VERY bad storm
(Ended
> up as a Cat 4 with 145 mile winds at landfall).
>
> TonyC
>
>
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