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thanks to T-Bone for his hard work controlling a few loose Baboons in the Zoo.

I was offline due to Hurricane force winds blowing the shit out of my city. I have just had power restored after 12 hours without any. Glad to say my house survived, but some of my fence, a gate, several trees and an out door setting did not.

For those curious -

http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,23471175-921,00.html

and

http://www.news.com.au/mercury/gallery/0,22927,5030740-5015646-2,00.html


As for the obvious baiting and crap that flowed from some keyboards here - I am very very disappointed and the forum is a few members lighter this morning.

Glad to hear you and your family are safe.

Andrew wrote:I was offline due to Hurricane force winds blowing the shit out of my city. I have just had power restored after 12 hours without any. Glad to say my house survived, but some of my fence, a gate, several trees and an out door setting did not.

That was no hurricane -- that was Don Dokken belting out a new tune from Lightning Strikes Again.



Seriously, glad to hear everything is ok, and that you and the family are safe.

glad to know you're still standing andrew. cyclonic winds- yikes! thanks for the link to pics, good to see your part of the world, even when it's a little beat up... nice and green tho.

Rip Rokken wrote:That was no hurricane -- that was Don Dokken belting out a new tune from Lightning Strikes Again.

Or one of Deano's burps. It's amazing how much air he ingests when slamming back to back to back beers. He burps and it's like a fucking tornado in the room. The people in the sports book in Vegas were divided about it. Half were amused and the other half were horrified. I wish I could have youtubed that 3 hour drunk fest. I'll do it next time.

Lula wrote:glad to know you're still standing andrew. cyclonic winds- yikes! thanks for the link to pics, good to see your part of the world, even when it's a little beat up... nice and green tho.

I'll try and find some other pics - pre-storm.

Place was as brown as the desert until a couple of weeks back when summer broke.

Glad your all safe Andrew.

I'm glad you and the family are safe boss.

Rip Rokken wrote:

Andrew wrote:I was offline due to Hurricane force winds blowing the shit out of my city. I have just had power restored after 12 hours without any. Glad to say my house survived, but some of my fence, a gate, several trees and an out door setting did not.

That was no hurricane -- that was Don Dokken belting out a new tune from Lightning Strikes Again.

You really need to get help.
Don couldn't blow out the 67 candles on his birthday cake if he tried. His voice is shot mate.

It was a long night. Not much sleep. Kept hearing things blwoing around and banging and breaking and the wind...damn, 15 hours of it...ending with a downpoor.
Finally has died off now and rain has eased off also.

Andrew wrote:

Rip Rokken wrote:

Andrew wrote:I was offline due to Hurricane force winds blowing the shit out of my city. I have just had power restored after 12 hours without any. Glad to say my house survived, but some of my fence, a gate, several trees and an out door setting did not.

That was no hurricane -- that was Don Dokken belting out a new tune from Lightning Strikes Again.

You really need to get help.
Don couldn't blow out the 67 candles on his birthday cake if he tried. His voice is shot mate.

lol!!

Glad you're ok there Andrew. Those are some pictures on those links you posted, damn...

Andrew wrote:You really need to get help.
Don couldn't blow out the 67 candles on his birthday cake if he tried. His voice is shot mate.

Just Mindy wrote:Glad you're ok there Andrew. Those are some pictures on those links you posted, damn...

Same here Andrew. Glad you and your family are ok. I hope the damage to your home was minimal.

Glad you're all well!

Rick wrote:

Just Mindy wrote:Glad you're ok there Andrew. Those are some pictures on those links you posted, damn...

Same here Andrew. Glad you and your family are ok. I hope the damage to your home was minimal.

Nothing a few hours in the garden with a hammer, drill and screws won't fix. Oh, and picnic table

i think there is a guy selling used picnic tables in ohio

Andrew wrote:

Rick wrote:

Just Mindy wrote:Glad you're ok there Andrew. Those are some pictures on those links you posted, damn...

Same here Andrew. Glad you and your family are ok. I hope the damage to your home was minimal.

Nothing a few hours in the garden with a hammer, drill and screws won't fix. Oh, and picnic table

You have a garden?

Andrew wrote:

Rick wrote:

Just Mindy wrote:Glad you're ok there Andrew. Those are some pictures on those links you posted, damn...

Same here Andrew. Glad you and your family are ok. I hope the damage to your home was minimal.

Nothing a few hours in the garden with a hammer, drill and screws won't fix. Oh, and picnic table

Glad to hear that.

Lula wrote:i think there is a guy selling used picnic tables in ohio

Ewwww....

RedWingFan wrote:

Andrew wrote:

Rick wrote:

Just Mindy wrote:Glad you're ok there Andrew. Those are some pictures on those links you posted, damn...

Same here Andrew. Glad you and your family are ok. I hope the damage to your home was minimal.

Nothing a few hours in the garden with a hammer, drill and screws won't fix. Oh, and picnic table

You have a garden?

What's left of it...but yes indeed. Sandpit, shed, grass, trees, swing, veggie patch

I'm so glad you are ok, drew.

I live in hurrican alley here in Corpus. but I always bug out and go to Colorado. hasn't been a hurricane in southern Colorado in hundreds, maybe millions, of years.

Andrew wrote:

RedWingFan wrote:

Andrew wrote:

Rick wrote:

Just Mindy wrote:Glad you're ok there Andrew. Those are some pictures on those links you posted, damn...

Same here Andrew. Glad you and your family are ok. I hope the damage to your home was minimal.

Nothing a few hours in the garden with a hammer, drill and screws won't fix. Oh, and picnic table

You have a garden?

What's left of it...but yes indeed. Sandpit, shed, grass, trees, swing, veggie patch

You got some poppies, marijuana, maybe some shrooms?

Andrew's picnic table is seriously hot. I'm just sayin'. As far as picnic tables go, she's the one for me. A perfectly polished sandalwood with a superb finish...great legs...the whole kitten caboodle...

Fact Finder wrote:

As for the obvious baiting and crap that flowed from some keyboards here - I am very very disappointed and the forum is a few members lighter this morning.

Hey Andrew, do you ever wake and read this place and feel kind of like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29CsN0zf-4E

Every day

Rip Rokken wrote:

Andrew wrote:I was offline due to Hurricane force winds blowing the shit out of my city. I have just had power restored after 12 hours without any. Glad to say my house survived, but some of my fence, a gate, several trees and an out door setting did not.

That was no hurricane -- that was Don Dokken belting out a new tune from Lightning Strikes Again.



Seriously, glad to hear everything is ok, and that you and the family are safe.

I'm loving the avatar, Rip! Where's that from?

Glad you are safe, Andrew!

Glad everything is ok, Andrew...

We live about an hour northeast of New Orleans (Baton Rouge), and Katrina was like that - Hurricane Rita as well. Thankfully, we came out of both relatively unscathed as well...

Andrew wrote:thanks to T-Bone for his hard work controlling a few loose Baboons in the Zoo.

I was offline due to Hurricane force winds blowing the shit out of my city. I have just had power restored after 12 hours without any. Glad to say my house survived, but some of my fence, a gate, several trees and an out door setting did not.

For those curious -

http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,23471175-921,00.html

and

http://www.news.com.au/mercury/gallery/0,22927,5030740-5015646-2,00.html


As for the obvious baiting and crap that flowed from some keyboards here - I am very very disappointed and the forum is a few members lighter this morning.

Glad everything is ok Andrew.
We get to go through the long dreaded hurricane season in 2 more short months. I surely dont look forward to summer
anymore because of it.

Here in Ohio the spring can have many tornadoes. When I see a front with a of temp change of 30 degrees plus I head for the TV and possibly basement. In 74 we had an F 4 or F 5 come from Ky over the river at 4pm on a newscast.. We took the kids to the basement. Little did we know the sirens would go off till 2am. The next year the same thing. There was sooo much damage. One of the years destroyed Xenia near Dayton, Oh. Then 6 yrs ago about the same. I hope you can easily fix the damage and glad all are safe. Was it a severe storm or cyclone aka tornado.