[OKDXA] Thinking of you guys

[Jerry Chouinard]

Hi Alan:

Go turn on a fan and point it this way!

Starting at around 3:30 AM I began to hear explosions out back of my house.
Many large trees down the cliff and into the valley behind me.  Some of the
trees go 70 feet tall.  They are getting a nature trimming now.  Interesting to
watch a major limb break and see it fall 60-70 feet taking out others as it
makes its way to the ground.  Some really large limbs down around the 
neighborhood
here.  One biggy across the road leading out of my area but we are pretty well
equipped to weather the stuff - for a while anyway.  Son Mark came by and
he is heading to Claremore to get more gas for his generators and picking up
a few things for us.  He lives in Owasso and says he has seen telco poles
snapped along with many trees.  So indeed it does look to be pretty bad
and will likely take a while to clean up and get power restored.

The Force beams are drooping heavily but as in the past I expect they will
spring back to normal after the load is off of them.

Running on generator power here and the phone lines ( somehow ) are
hanging in.  I have ISDN which relies on a pair plus a couple of regular
lines and they are all up for now.

73 - Jerry K5YAA

At 08:56 AM 12/10/2007 -0600, you wrote:
>I have been thinking of you guys up there with all the ice yesterday and
>this morning.  There is such a large contrast between here and there.  It is
>66 degrees here on the way up to 80 today and you guys are getting hammered
>with an ice storm.  From the bits of e-mails I see it sounds like it is
>turning out to be very bad.  I was watching the Weather Channel before I
>went to bed last night and they were predicting ¾ inch of ice in the OKC
>area and 1 inch in Kansas City.  That is enough to do massive damage.  My
>thoughts and prayers are with you guys.  Stay inside and stay safe.  I hope
>your antennas and towers weather the storm.
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>73,
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>Alan, N5PA
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>Ellisville, MS
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