Re: Hey Norm-see any sharks?

On Sep 7, 12:09?am, walki...@xxxxxx (hank alrich) wrote:
betsey <twoxo...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 6, 6:24?pm, walki...@xxxxxx (hank alrich) wrote:
Mike Brown <rocko...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ken Cashion wrote:

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:30:40 -0700, Larry Brown
<larrybro...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sep 4, 9:24 pm, betsey <twoxo...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

hi Norman...

were you part of the bunch that caught the shark?????

Funny how when these things come up you think of people you "know"
huh?
Everytime some crazy Australian weather thing happens, I wonder "Where
does that Mike Brown live?"
Hey, maybe it's nice to know, somebody out there in the Internets is
thinking about you.

This place is my regular evening diversion, and I tend to think about
you rotten lot quite a bit, sad ain't it.

Even if I come in late, I can rarely resist checking out the group
before I go to bed.

As you say, weather reports and other catastrophies do make me wonder
how my friends are coping with it.

Dig it; this is what's going on in my area right now:

http://www.plumasnews.com/news_story.edi?sid=5411

Way too exciting. Have broken down the studio, packed up the instruments
and a whole lot of other stuff of merit and value, hauled all it into
town and stashed it in a building that will become my wife's little
natural foods store. Have sprinklers running on the music room roof, the
only one that's not metal, sprinklers running along the back side of the
house between dwelling and forest, small fire pump set up by the pond,
hoses to the house, etc. We're watching ash and cinders fall around us.
Hope hangs on the wind's direction.

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Hank--

i hope all is ok---you sound so way calm about this.

Panic is the worst response to an emergency. Tonight the wind has
shifted and we might get a night's sleep. Ash and cinders have been
falling around us most of today. We were given a precautionary
evacuation advisory early this morning - hence, the removal of loads of
stuff from our house.

The firefighters have done amazingly well. With over 400 residences
threatened, and I mean fire coming down off of ridges and burning
through properties right to the valley floors, only one remote
unoccupied house has been lost.

This is high Sierra timberland in a drought year. Fire was 4000 acres
when we went to bed Tuesday night, and 12,000 acres when we woke up
Wednesday morning.

A scary part is the potential for spotting ahead of the main fire. We've
had some start over three miles out, but the one that has come closest
to us so far was suppressed fully while still under two acres.

Cancelled my swing gig Saturday night, as a shift in the wind would put
us right back in the path of the fire, and I can't see being away for
even a few hours.

Time to sing "The Baltimore Fire". <g>

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ha
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Several years ago, we lost almost 10,000 acres in an afternoon in
Wharton State Forest...fire came within 1/4 of a mile. it was scary.
I truly do applaud and appreciate those volunteer fire fighters....

I hope all goes well for you Hank....

betsey

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