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RE: OT: Canoerebel??? - 4/29/2011 2:31:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		Brad, we live in Armuchee, a small community about ten miles north of Rome. Berry College is one of our main family hangouts. I know the Reservoir well - I've paddled it, swam in it, picnicked and read books by it, but mainly run or mountain biked around it. I think it's the prettiest place in Floyd County.

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RE: OT: Canoerebel??? - 4/29/2011 6:26:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		Glad to here you are well Dan. Also happy to hear other forumites in the affected areas survived intact. Kinda nice to think we have a real community here even though we literally circle the globe in our geographic distribution.

As an aside, keep those affected in mind. In our "Short Attention Span" society this tragedy will get a lot of attention for a few weeks. Then we will move on to the next news cycle. We had the worst tornado in years last June in NW Ohio. It nearly leveled one small community with multiple deaths. It took out the local HS also. That community is still in recovery mode nearly a year later. Point being that while the victims are in our minds right now, their suffering and recovery will last long after they pass from the national spotlight


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RE: OT: Canoerebel??? - 4/29/2011 8:32:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		Glad to hear Dan's okay, and I hope the same for all our colleagues who are down there without our knowing it!  Fortunately, we don't see many tornadoes here in the Seattle area (but they're not unknown), but I spent enough time alternating between spotting (NashevilleN, besides being an N-scaler, like you, I'm also a trained spotter, like you -- this is getting scary!) and hiding from them.  I have a friend in Chattanooga -- well, she works in Chattanooga but lives closer to Cleveland -- who lost the roof off her house and had one wing (of the house) heavily damaged.

Not meaning at all to diminish the severity of all this, but its timing unfortunately obliterated coverage of another weather tragedy -- lightning striking a soccer field in Michigan while the game was in progress.  Lightning is the deadliest natural phenomenon in this country, but doesn't get the respect it demands.  Everybody please be careful when your family succeeds in dragging you outdoors, away from AE!

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RE: OT: Canoerebel??? - 4/29/2011 10:07:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wow...I didn't realize so many of our Matrix denizens were from that part of the country...I grew up near Chattanooga - Sewanee and Winchester TN...still have family in west TN, near Jackson...my thoughts and prayers go out to all affected...

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RE: OT: Canoerebel??? - 4/30/2011 4:54:55 AM   
TOMLABEL


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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
Hey, gents, the power is back on, so I am back in communication.  I appreciate your thoughts.  My family is fine and to the best of my knowledge there were no deaths in our county (Floyd). 
Glad to hear Tom Label and the Tennessee folks (Fallsschirmjaager, Treespider, etc.) are okay.


It's so good to hear that you are alright, alive and well Canorebel. JCJORDAN - you experienced the same thing I did.
So tired that I will post a compilation of an email and PM I just sent to JWE (J. Eldredge) and WDOLSON (B Olson). I hope they don't mind. The original content has been edited for personal reasons.

"I took off yesterday and today to do volunteer work. I must tell you that I've never seen anything like this in my life. I am speechless to try to explain to you everything I have seen. Somethings made me throw up today. Never had that happen to me - only seen people throw up it in movies. I guess you have seen some of the damage videos/pics on TV. During highschool, I was in Mobile when hurricane Fredrick hit and experienced massive damage and even container ships washed up onto Water Street. I thought that was bad. This doesn't even compare.

The people I've seen. Those poor people! I've seen so many of them still walking around in shock. Some were let in there neighborhoods today to retrieve what they could find. Cadaver dog teams will be going into some areas tonight to try to find the missing/presumed deceased. There are many areas that haven't even been accessible yet. The death toll was about 250 for the whole state of Alabama this afternoon. I'm sure it will rise. I feel so bad for them, but at the same time, I am so thankful that my section of town (southern suburbs) were bracketed and did not suffer hardly any damage. It makes me feel guilty, very guilty somehow.

Yesterday, the power company team from WIS or IL (I forget which) found a University of Alabama student who was missing in Tuscaloosa after the storm hit. They found him in a tree in Pratt city (a northern suburb of Birmingham). Dead of course......last seen in his apartment in T'town right before the storm. How can a tornado carry a body for 45 miles??????? I can't remember if I told you that they have found business signs and personal belongings of people from Tuscaloosa scattered about the Birmingham area (actually two counties) and also as far as a radius of 100 miles away. I've always watched the videos from Iraq and Afganistan, but I've never seen anything like this except from WW2 documentaries. I just don't know what else to say."

TOMLABEL





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RE: OT: Canoerebel??? - 4/30/2011 5:08:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Wow, Tom that was sobering to even read. I cannot imagine what it was like in person. Again, so glad you and yours made it through safely.

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RE: OT: Canoerebel??? - 4/30/2011 5:09:17 AM   
TOMLABEL


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Wow...I didn't realize so many of our Matrix denizens were from that part of the country...I grew up near Chattanooga - Sewanee and Winchester TN...still have family in west TN, near Jackson...my thoughts and prayers go out to all affected...


Many thanks - by the Grace of GOD we were fortunate.

Is this the Jackson TN where Lambeth College is? My nephew had a football scholarship there until the school shut down. Very sad story. Think he will go to MS state now as they are waiving the out-of-state tuition based on his SAT scores, but he won't have the scholarships he was offered from there before. Lives in Collierville.

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RE: OT: Canoerebel??? - 4/30/2011 5:22:04 AM   
TOMLABEL


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Wow, Tom that was sobering to even read. I cannot imagine what it was like in person. Again, so glad you and yours made it through safely.


Thank you. Just wish I had the power and the resources to do more. It has definitely put life in a whole new perspective for me.

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RE: OT: Canoerebel??? - 4/30/2011 5:23:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		In the South in the past 22 years we've had Hurricanes Hugo, Andrew, and Katrina and now this outbreak of tornadoes (and lots of other big storms and disasters, like the Nashville floods last year).

I saw Andrew's devastation. My sister and her family lost their house as did my college roommate and his wife. I could not even find the house I had grown up in, because all the trees of that very lush, tropical area were completely gone.

I was in the Katrina area a month later and in the Hugo area several months afterward. Utter chaos in both places.

There's no way areas like these can recover, but somehow they do. Ten or fifteen years later, the external scars are mostly healed. But of course the internal wounds will never heal for some.

Then you think about Indonesia 2004 and Japan 2011 and...wow, your heart goes out to the victims, and you're once again humbled if you and your family have been spared.

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RE: OT: Canoerebel??? - 4/30/2011 9:32:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		I do know one of the missing presumed dead. He was from Ringgold GA but I went to high school with him in Chattanooga. I would not consider him a friend, he was a year behind me. But I did know him and knew his older sister better. I saw him name in the paper. Missing for 48 hours now :(

Very sad I think he went to a good private university on scholarship after high school and had moved back here. A lot of talent wasted so young. It is sad.

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RE: OT: Canoerebel??? - 4/30/2011 9:35:36 AM   
Fallschirmjager


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Then you think about Indonesia 2004 and Japan 2011 and...wow, your heart goes out to the victims, and you're once again humbled if you and your family have been spared.


Please don't leave out Haiti 2010. Those people still desperately need help. Probably more than any other recent disaster. Haiti was one of the poorest places on earth before the earthquake and now things are even worse. Cholera and ripping through the temporary shelter camps and food and clean water are in short supply as is trained medical workers.

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RE: OT: Canoerebel??? - 4/30/2011 10:29:32 AM   
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Status: offline 		By no means do I wish to detract from the recent tragedy, I just wanted to address the short memory issue.

Take a drive through many, many parts of New Orleans and the surrounding areas. It looks just like the hurricane waters receded only weeks before. Many folks still have the emergency marking on the front of their homes and the homes are only barely liveable. They have nowhere else to live and no money to change the situation.

Just took a drive a couple of weeks ago out to the St. Bernard area for a small painting job. Again, looks like just a few weeks ago the water receded...

Best wishes to everyone affected by these tornadoes. I have family in the area and I am still waiting to hear from some of them. Spent many a summer in Pell City as a child.

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RE: OT: Canoerebel??? - 4/30/2011 5:27:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		One of my co-workers lives in Huntsville Al. It was pretty bad up there too. He lost trees but his neighbor lost a half of the roof. No power or water but everyone is ok. All of these people and in all of these states are in my prayers.

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RE: OT: Canoerebel??? - 5/1/2011 3:36:54 AM   
Mac Linehan

 

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Am very grateful to God that you have been protected and are alive and well.

My prayers are with all who have been affected by these storms.

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RE: OT: Canoerebel??? - 5/1/2011 4:27:24 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Kwik E Mart

Wow...I didn't realize so many of our Matrix denizens were from that part of the country...I grew up near Chattanooga - Sewanee and Winchester TN...still have family in west TN, near Jackson...my thoughts and prayers go out to all affected...


Many thanks - by the Grace of GOD we were fortunate.

Is this the Jackson TN where Lambeth College is? My nephew had a football scholarship there until the school shut down. Very sad story. Think he will go to MS state now as they are waiving the out-of-state tuition based on his SAT scores, but he won't have the scholarships he was offered from there before. Lives in Collierville.

TOMLABEL


Sorry to hijack the thread and glad you're OK. I worked at Lambuth for several years and still know people who worked there till the bitter end. Hope your nephew finds another school. We mostly dodged a bullet here in West TN. A lot of uprooted trees and some roof damage. Nothing like Alabama. My mother was born in Tuscaloosa and I have a lot family there. No one in the hard hit areas. My cousins used to live in the Alberta neighborhood when we were all growing up and I understand it is pretty much gone. So sad.

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