[Boatanchors] W8UT - Anyone heard?

[greg mijal]

Hi Al and all the BA  and Navy folks. I'm 35 miles inland from Al, in a town called Kinston.  Seems like we took a huge hit here. Lots of trees and power lines down.  No power athome, no WWW or phone. Cell phone service is out yoo.  I'm a Red Cross volunteer and we had s headcount of 500 souls, late in the evening of the stormday.  The wind sounded like a 747 flying over the house.  Lost the 80/40/20 wire and my neighbor across the street is sporting a tree thru the corner of his house.Lots of power lines and big trees down everywhere in the city.  Anyway, I'll be at Shelby to trade storm stories with Al.   73'sGregWA7LYOKinston, NC
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> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:57:20 -0400
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> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] W8UT - Anyone heard?
> 
> Hi folks,
>     Many thanks for all the msgs & wellwishes, I'll try to answer all the 
> individual ones later.  We are safe, no iinjuries.  I'm taking a break after 
> lunch.  Tnx Tom B for the synopsis of affairs, 2 minor editings - He made us 
> sound like a big property owner with our "lots".  Abt 1-1/2 acre total, 
> house on one, "side yard" on other.  And we're about 300 yds from the bank 
> of the Neuse River,  The Trent joins it abt 7 mi. upstream at New Bern 
> proper.  Pure salt water is abt 25 mi. away, the Neuse is partially salt 
> here, and 3 mi. wide.  But a good note from Tom, I won't repeat, but a 
> little more addn maybe.
>     The tree came thru the roof abt 8PM Fri. nite.  Our local ARES 
> coordinator was on the air from the County EOC, and I'd been ckg in on 2m. 
> Shelters had been opened.  I told him what had happened  & was immediatlely 
> told that they'd dispatch the Fire Dept. to get the roof covered.  They did. 
> It's almost impossible to reach any contractor type svcs after 5PM, 
> particualrly on a wkend or this type of weather.  A tree service owner did 
> answer the fone, and he came with 2 guys, they added to the coverings after 
> the FD left.  They couldn't do any sawing  at that time, the wind a rain 
> were pretty bad, so covering was spotty, water coming into the house thru 
> the roof.
>     Eye of the storm passed abt 25 mi. east at abt 9 AM Sat.  I got up on 
> the roof shortly after that to secure tarps which had blown loose.  Very 
> gusty & rainy, not any fun.  Tree guys Sat. PM got the 8"dia. limb out of 
> the attic, and thru Sun. PM had most of the 14 trees cut up & hauled to the 
> road.  This AM as Tom noted, the crane hauled the big one from the roof. 
> Contractor will cover up the hole shortly, to await the Ins. Adj. on Thurs. 
> Ins. Co. may not cover any more than the tree on the house, and house 
> damage.
>     My wife, Pat, bless her heart, said, a bit ago, that after the ins. adj. 
> shows on Thurs. there probably wouldn't be much to do until next week, so I 
> could still go to Shelby.  I had motel res. for Thurs. & Fri. nite, and 
> space arrgd to tailgate.  So maybe I'll make it.  I'd been wkg on some stuff 
> to take, so maybe that'll help pay the big ins. co. deductible.  Vy nice EAC 
> R-390A & refurbed SP-600 + my usual edebris.  Will be at Nick's yellow 
> Boatanchor banner., abt where we were last yr.
> Tnx, 73,
> 
> Al, W8UT
> New Bern, NC
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> "there is nothing -absolutely nothing- half as much worth doing as
>  simply messing about in boats."
>    Ratty, to Mole
> 
> 
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