Guest guest Posted August 26, 2008 Report Share Posted August 26, 2008 Hi , How are you doing??? How's kitty doing??? Haven't heard from ya in a while was getting worried... Hope that new hurricane stays away from your area... ((( Happy Hugs )))Helen Hello ~Mare~ Isn't that what all drug dealers do, freebies till you're hooked and then they make you pay... If you stay off them a little longer, the withdrawal symptoms will eventually end... Regards, "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 They just said that the eye just hit land, they call it hitting when the center of the eye hits the land... I say its hitting when the storms bands start in! ) You've got a big red cell going around ya right now, that is why it has picked up in such force... They said the restaurant is totaled, it was completely gutted by fire... Their not sure if the woman and child were inside the restaurant or huddling outside it, they both were taken to the hospital... Helen Yeah, I still have power, not even a flicker which is why I thought it may have been lightning. But all three were just single flashes while lightning is usually a series of flashes, then again, transformer pops usually have a real loud bang. I hope that restaurant didn't burn down, it's a real nice restaurant and it's been there for 40 years but they probably can't risk having the firefighters put it out. They say that an adult and a four year old child were injured in the fire, they also said there was a third but I didn't catch if it was an adult or what. What a child was doing at the restaurant in this weather, I don't know; but they say they were found outside the restaurant. The last word was that there was one final bout of strengthening which made the storm symmetrical. For some reason, the winds are still strong on the back side which is unusual but they say it'll die down before it gets to us and it'll just be heavy rain on the back side. The wind is still howling over here with some rain spitting about. Officially, the eye is only just about to make landfall, once the eye is on land the storm can't strengthen. Regards, "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 That is terrible about the boy ( Now the father will feel guilt the rest of his life...looks like you will be getting a brake here soon when the eye is finally over you... The weather channel lost contact with one of there weather man... Helen On Fox, they say it was two males and a female child with one of the males being the father. Both the father and the child have burns on 80% of their body. Poor child, disfigured for life from the age of four. The first fatality was during the afternoon up in Montgomery county, there a man decided to cut down a tree rather than risk it being blown down but when he fell the tree, it killed his 10 year old son. This storm seems to be after the kids. I wish there was enough light for me to take a video of the trees bending over. They're saying that this has been a really unusual hurricane, it expanded instead of strengthening and the eye formed late and formed very large but was never really well defined. Regards, "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 That is terrible about the boy ( Now the father will feel guilt the rest of his life...looks like you will be getting a brake here soon when the eye is finally over you... The weather channel lost contact with one of there weather man... Helen On Fox, they say it was two males and a female child with one of the males being the father. Both the father and the child have burns on 80% of their body. Poor child, disfigured for life from the age of four. The first fatality was during the afternoon up in Montgomery county, there a man decided to cut down a tree rather than risk it being blown down but when he fell the tree, it killed his 10 year old son. This storm seems to be after the kids. I wish there was enough light for me to take a video of the trees bending over. They're saying that this has been a really unusual hurricane, it expanded instead of strengthening and the eye formed late and formed very large but was never really well defined. Regards, "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 wind is 110 mph and gusting to 135 mph in Houston now Wind has really really increased even more just now... "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 That would be so scary to see a skyscraper doing that... They won't be rescuing anyone during the storm they said, its too risky... They just said it was 1mph shy of being a cat 3... They had incredible video of a skyscraper with it's windows bowing and flexing in the wind with the reflected light patterns changing. I think I had an office in that skyscraper and it's windows always flexed with bad weather. It only has to be 111 mph to be a cat 3. They're getting 911 calls from Galveston. Apparently people are waist deep in water on their second floor and want to be rescued while in the eye. The wind is incredibly loud now it's blowing the rain in sheets. I've only seen this with tornado weather. Regards, "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 They just said it would be 3 weeks to a month to restore all the power back to normal... I think all electric and phone cables should be underground, that way there wouldn't be so much outages... Eye should be upon you very shortly... Helen It's 3 million without power now. I still have power, not even a flicker. Guess having the power underground really paid off.The wind noise is drowning everything out now, really quite frightening. The neighbor's garbage can has been moving back and forth across his driveway, his recycling blue box is nowhere to be seen. It's too dark to see what happened to the folding chairs that the other neighbor left out. "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 I doubt that anyone's sleeping in your area tonight, except maybe the children... They just said you could get up to 12"s of rain by the time its all said and done... I'm just on the leading edge of that big yellow orange swath, probably still in the green so it's going to get a lot worse before I even get close to the eye. Can't see how you can sleep through this wind. "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 that's enough to break them off... Hope your power stays on. Oh oh, power just flicked. My little oak trees are being bent over by 30 to 40 degrees with the gusts. "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 Stay safe , I'm going to lay down for a while, its almost 5am here, girls will be getting up around 7/8. Will check on you then... Keep postin to get you through this, others may wake up soon and can join ya too... Hope your power is still on... ((( Safe Hugs )))Helen "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Yeah, I still have power, not even a flicker which is why I thought it may have been lightning.  But all three were just single flashes while lightning is usually a series of flashes, then again, transformer pops usually have a real loud bang.  I hope that restaurant didn't burn down, it's a real nice restaurant and it's been there for 40 years but they probably can't risk having the firefighters put it out.   They say that an adult and a four year old child were injured in the fire, they also said there was a third but I didn't catch if it was an adult or what.  What a child was doing at the restaurant in this weather, I don't know; but they say they were found outside the restaurant.  The last word was that there was one final bout of strengthening which made the storm symmetrical.  For some reason, the winds are still strong on the back side which is unusual but they say it'll die down before it gets to us and it'll just be heavy rain on the back side.  The wind is still howling over here with some rain spitting about.  Officially, the eye is only just about to make landfall, once the eye is on land the storm can't strengthen.Regards,On Sep 13, 2008, at 1:34 AM, angelbear1129@... wrote:, It might be transformers blowing, they've been showing them on the weather channel... CNN said there is 3 fires going on right now in Houston... They just said the restaurant burned to the ground... Do you still have power where you are??? They said the storm is still strengthening and it could be a category 3 by the time it hits shore... They just had gusts of 135mph... Helenjust saw three blue flashes of light, looks like lightning on the other side of the house but no thunder so it must still be far away. The news says that Brenners is on fire, that's a pretty famous restaurant in midtown, it was in "Terms of Endearment". "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Yeah, I still have power, not even a flicker which is why I thought it may have been lightning.  But all three were just single flashes while lightning is usually a series of flashes, then again, transformer pops usually have a real loud bang.  I hope that restaurant didn't burn down, it's a real nice restaurant and it's been there for 40 years but they probably can't risk having the firefighters put it out.   They say that an adult and a four year old child were injured in the fire, they also said there was a third but I didn't catch if it was an adult or what.  What a child was doing at the restaurant in this weather, I don't know; but they say they were found outside the restaurant.  The last word was that there was one final bout of strengthening which made the storm symmetrical.  For some reason, the winds are still strong on the back side which is unusual but they say it'll die down before it gets to us and it'll just be heavy rain on the back side.  The wind is still howling over here with some rain spitting about.  Officially, the eye is only just about to make landfall, once the eye is on land the storm can't strengthen.Regards,On Sep 13, 2008, at 1:34 AM, angelbear1129@... wrote:, It might be transformers blowing, they've been showing them on the weather channel... CNN said there is 3 fires going on right now in Houston... They just said the restaurant burned to the ground... Do you still have power where you are??? They said the storm is still strengthening and it could be a category 3 by the time it hits shore... They just had gusts of 135mph... Helenjust saw three blue flashes of light, looks like lightning on the other side of the house but no thunder so it must still be far away. The news says that Brenners is on fire, that's a pretty famous restaurant in midtown, it was in "Terms of Endearment". "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 > The wind and rain has just really picked up, at least twice what they were before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 > The wind and rain has just really picked up, at least twice what they were before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 On Fox, they say it was two males and a female child with one of the males being the father.  Both the father and the child have burns on 80% of their body.  Poor child, disfigured for life from the age of four.  The first fatality was during the afternoon up in Montgomery county, there a man decided to cut down a tree rather than risk it being blown down but when he fell the tree, it killed his 10 year old son.  This storm seems to be after the kids.I wish there was enough light for me to take a video of the trees bending over.  They're saying that this has been a really unusual hurricane, it expanded instead of strengthening and the eye formed late and formed very large but was never really well defined.Regards,On Sep 13, 2008, at 2:30 AM, angelbear1129@... wrote:They just said that the eye just hit land, they call it hitting when the center of the eye hits the land... I say its hitting when the storms bands start in! )  You've got a big red cell going around ya right now, that is why it has picked up in such force... They said the restaurant is totaled, it was completely gutted by fire... Their not sure if the woman and child were inside the restaurant or huddling outside it, they both were taken to the hospital... HelenYeah, I still have power, not even a flicker which is why I thought it may have been lightning.  But all three were just single flashes while lightning is usually a series of flashes, then again, transformer pops usually have a real loud bang.  I hope that restaurant didn't burn down, it's a real nice restaurant and it's been there for 40 years but they probably can't risk having the firefighters put it out.   They say that an adult and a four year old child were injured in the fire, they also said there was a third but I didn't catch if it was an adult or what.  What a child was doing at the restaurant in this weather, I don't know; but they say they were found outside the restaurant.  The last word was that there was one final bout of strengthening which made the storm symmetrical.  For some reason, the winds are still strong on the back side which is unusual but they say it'll die down before it gets to us and it'll just be heavy rain on the back side.  The wind is still howling over here with some rain spitting about.  Officially, the eye is only just about to make landfall, once the eye is on land the storm can't strengthen.Regards, "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Wind has really really increased even more just now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Wind has really really increased even more just now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 They had incredible video of a skyscraper with it's windows bowing and flexing in the wind with the reflected light patterns changing.  I think I had an office in that skyscraper and it's windows always flexed with bad weather.It only has to be 111 mph to be a cat 3.They're getting 911 calls from Galveston.  Apparently people are waist deep in water on their second floor and want to be rescued while in the eye.The wind is incredibly loud now it's blowing the rain in sheets.  I've only seen this with tornado weather.Regards,On Sep 13, 2008, at 3:08 AM, angelbear1129@... wrote:wind is 110 mph and gusting to 135 mph in Houston now     . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 It's 3 million without power now. I still have power, not even a flicker. Guess having the power underground really paid off. The wind noise is drowning everything out now, really quite frightening. The neighbor's garbage can has been moving back and forth across his driveway, his recycling blue box is nowhere to be seen. It's too dark to see what happened to the folding chairs that the other neighbor left out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 I'm just on the leading edge of that big yellow orange swath, probably still in the green so it's going to get a lot worse before I even get close to the eye.  Can't see how you can sleep through this wind.On Sep 13, 2008, at 3:30 AM, angelbear1129@... wrote:They just said it would be 3 weeks to a month to restore all the power back to normal... I think all electric and phone cables should be underground, that way there wouldn't be so much outages... Eye should be upon you very shortly...HelenIt's 3 million without power now. I still have power, not even a flicker. Guess having the power underground really paid off.The wind noise is drowning everything out now, really quite frightening. The neighbor's garbage can has been moving back and forth across his driveway, his recycling blue box is nowhere to be seen. It's too dark to see what happened to the folding chairs that the other neighbor left out. "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Oh oh, power just flicked.My little oak trees are being bent over by 30 to 40 degrees with the gusts.On Sep 13, 2008, at 3:38 AM, angelbear1129@... wrote:I doubt that anyone's sleeping in your area tonight, except maybe the children... They just said you could get up to 12"s of rain by the time its all said and done... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Looks like the power is out for good now.   Wind is still picking up.  There's about 15 minutes left on the UPS for my DSL and wireless base station, laptop probably has about  an hour of power left so I'll be shutting down to save battery power for emails via the cell phone GPRS.On Sep 13, 2008, at 3:58 AM, angelbear1129@... wrote:Stay safe , I'm going to lay down for a while, its almost 5am here, girls will be getting up around 7/8. Will check on you then... Keep postin to get you through this, others may wake up soon and can join ya too... Hope your power is still on...((( Safe Hugs )))Helen "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 I'm at the southern edge of the storm now, the lake is right at the brim, it's raining like crazy and the wind is steady but nothing like it was last night. I'm without power, the UPS won't last long so I'll be loosing the DSL soon, also the laptop is down to about 45 minutes of power so I'll be just sending this email, checking the news and then shutting down again. Somehow, the trees have made it, I could've sworn they would be pretzels. The wind and rain got to the point where you couldn't see a thing last night but then that may also have been because the power was out so there was no lights. Looks like it's close to being over. Regards, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Hi , That was very nice of the friend to help your sister... Yes, it is remarkable how everything had come together for your sister, some of us would call that a (miracle ) I know nothing about Hawaii, Are the islands connected with bridges or you have to fly or ferry to each one? Just curious. Keep us updated and please tell your family my Prayers and thoughts are with you all... ((( Caring Hugs )))Helen Hello Just received a new update from my brother in law. The transfer to the rehab unit had been postponed a few days due to an infection with the central IV, fortunately the infection responded to vancomycin, apparently an antibiotic of last resort. It's horrible how bacteria has been becoming resistant to so many of our antibiotics these days. They've discontinued the lumbar punctures, apparently the pressure on the brain is almost down to normal. The HMO refused to pay the $7,000 for the medical transfer flight so they arranged to have a friend who's a nurse that worked at the clinic where my sister worked to act as an in-flight nurse on a commercial flight. Apparently, my sister was lecturing smokers at the airport, telling them that if they didn't stop, they could become brain damaged like she is. It's truly remarkable how everything has been working out, with the SAH occurring just before my brother in law left for work hence there was someone to call 911, the rapid response of the fire department and the airlift to Maui hence bringing her to the stroke center within four hours and the fact that the stroke center had the Dyna CT which had only been just installed the year before (there's only three such machines in the western US). Apparently, had the stroke occurred almost anywhere else and or at any other time, the outcome could've been very different. Regards, "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate." Know Your Numbers: Get tips and tools to help you improve your credit score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Hi , That was very nice of the friend to help your sister... Yes, it is remarkable how everything had come together for your sister, some of us would call that a (miracle ) I know nothing about Hawaii, Are the islands connected with bridges or you have to fly or ferry to each one? Just curious. Keep us updated and please tell your family my Prayers and thoughts are with you all... ((( Caring Hugs )))Helen Hello Just received a new update from my brother in law. The transfer to the rehab unit had been postponed a few days due to an infection with the central IV, fortunately the infection responded to vancomycin, apparently an antibiotic of last resort. It's horrible how bacteria has been becoming resistant to so many of our antibiotics these days. They've discontinued the lumbar punctures, apparently the pressure on the brain is almost down to normal. The HMO refused to pay the $7,000 for the medical transfer flight so they arranged to have a friend who's a nurse that worked at the clinic where my sister worked to act as an in-flight nurse on a commercial flight. Apparently, my sister was lecturing smokers at the airport, telling them that if they didn't stop, they could become brain damaged like she is. It's truly remarkable how everything has been working out, with the SAH occurring just before my brother in law left for work hence there was someone to call 911, the rapid response of the fire department and the airlift to Maui hence bringing her to the stroke center within four hours and the fact that the stroke center had the Dyna CT which had only been just installed the year before (there's only three such machines in the western US). Apparently, had the stroke occurred almost anywhere else and or at any other time, the outcome could've been very different. Regards, "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate." Know Your Numbers: Get tips and tools to help you improve your credit score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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