Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

cudgee said:
Can only imagine what yourself and other folk are going through. 🙏🙏🙏🤝
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Thanks, Leon! 🙏

I don't freak out. Some folks do - buying up toilet paper, drinking water, plywood, corrugated metal sheets. I don't participate in that.

The worst hurricane I've experienced was Andrew, in 1992, and its gonna take quite a bit to outdo that one.

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Just look at the sheer size of it - and the perfectly formed (and perfectly dreadful) circular eye (which we later found out was creating thousands of tornadoes at its wall)!

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Andrew was a very lethal storm, the only Category 5 (I believe the scale only went up to 4 at the time and Andrew was later reclassified) I've ever heard of. Paint peeled right off the buildings. Cars were picked up and thrown into piles. I personally found a plastic drinking straw imbedded into the side of a palm tree an inch deep. I've yet to have anybody explain that phenomenon to me - but the hurricane knows!

Even after Andrew though, it only took about 24 hours for massive relief to begin pouring in from all over the world. There was never a shortage of food or water as the National Guard began distributing MREs en masse and Anheuser-Busch began sending pallets of drinking water in beer cans! The first week brought relief workers from all over the globe, thousands and thousands of generators and trailers and a massive tent city was constructed to temporarily house the vast number of displaced.

As long as it ain't like that, we're fine!
 
birdsbeaks said:
Thanks, Leon! 🙏

I don't freak out. Some folks do - buying up toilet paper, drinking water, plywood, corrugated metal sheets. I don't participate in that.
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Cool under fire :thumbsup:
birdsbeaks said:
The worst hurricane I've experienced was Andrew, in 1992, and its gonna take quite a bit to outdo that one.

AaqAU3o.jpeg


Just look at the sheer size of it - and the perfectly formed (and perfectly dreadful) circular eye (which we later found out was creating thousands of tornadoes at its wall)!

0HFYdWD.jpeg


Andrew was a very lethal storm, the only Category 5 (I believe the scale only went up to 4 at the time and Andrew was later reclassified) I've ever heard of. Paint peeled right off the buildings. Cars were picked up and thrown into piles. I personally found a plastic drinking straw imbedded into the side of a palm tree an inch deep. I've yet to have anybody explain that phenomenon to me - but the hurricane knows!

Even after Andrew though, it only took about 24 hours for massive relief to begin pouring in from all over the world. There was never a shortage of food or water as the National Guard began distributing MREs en masse and Anheuser-Busch began sending pallets of drinking water in beer cans! The first week brought relief workers from all over the globe, thousands and thousands of generators and trailers and a massive tent city was constructed to temporarily house the vast number of displaced.

As long as it ain't like that, we're fine!
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That top photo is incredible Will, quite an experience to have under your belt! :eek: We get a lot of rain here, and disappointing days, but it's rare that the weather is a danger to life. The hairiest experience I have had, (in terms of UK weather), though I ordered another drink, and chuckled through it, may have been flying back from the Canaries after last Christmas, when the plane had to circle over a, (probably rather inconsequential), tornado. and there was the slim chance of the plane going down in Lancashire :eek: ;) :thumbsup:
 
Jack Black said:
Cool under fire :thumbsup:

That top photo is incredible Will, quite an experience to have under your belt! :eek: We get a lot of rain here, and disappointing days, but it's rare that the weather is a danger to life. The hairiest experience I have had, (in terms of UK weather), though I ordered another drink, and chuckled through it, may have been flying back from the Canaries after last Christmas, when the plane had to circle over a, (probably rather inconsequential), tornado. and there was the slim chance of the plane going down in Lancashire :eek: ;) :thumbsup:
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I remember that ordeal, Jack!
 
birdsbeaks said:
... Anheuser-Busch began sending pallets of drinking water in beer cans!
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During the flood of '93 we received some of those from A-B. We called them "Bud Extra Light" 😛

My little town in 1993. I lived a couple of buildings past the blue one you can see on the left. I ultimately had 6 feet of water in my apartment. Fortunately I was a renter and not an owner.


I just got back from Tennessee. Had a lot rain, but I was well north and west of the disaster. For several nights, the Knoxville news stations were telling people that all the roads between North Carolina and Tennessee were closed. All of them. I-40 - a very busy east-west interstate - is still closed.
Good luck Will 🤞🙏

On a happier note, maybe...
Go Tigers!
 
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It's been over 5 years since I last saw my dear friend, The Legend, Duncan Campbellclanman Campbellclanman , so this week is a big one for me, as Duncan, and his missus, Sue, are over in England, for a couple of weeks, and I'll be meeting up with Duncan this week :) It was a toss-up between Sheffield and York, and it was heads for York, so later in the week, we'll be meeting up, for a couple of days, in Yorkshire's historic capital :) I can't wait! :cool: :thumbsup:

Here's a pic, from Duncan and Sue's visit to Sheffield, 11 years ago, when we visited Stan Shaw's workshop :)

 
mbkr said:
During the flood of '93 we received some of those from A-B. We called them "Bud Extra Light" 😛

My little town in 1993. I lived a couple of buildings past the blue one you can see on the left. I ultimately had 6 feet of water in my apartment. Fortunately I was a renter and not an owner.


I just got back from Tennessee. Had a lot rain, but I was well north and west of the disaster. For several nights, the Knoxville news stations were telling people that all the roads between North Carolina and Tennessee were closed. All of them. I-40 - a very buys east-west interstate - is still closed.
Good luck Will 🤞🙏

On a happier note, maybe...
Go Tigers!
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I spent my boyhood craving adventures, and found them certainly, but sometimes adventures can be overrated ;) Glad your feet are dry buddy :) Cool pic :thumbsup:
 
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