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Re: Hurricane Rita

To: James Pickard <geowiz.sgy@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Hurricane Rita
From: Jim Sencindiver <jd.sencindiver@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:09:34 -0400
Glad to hear that you came out of this latest ordeal relatively unscathed.
Look on the bright side - once you get all the limbs cut up you'll have a
great start on this winter's firewood.
 Keep on Tigering!
--
Jim Sencindiver
 On 9/26/05, James Pickard <geowiz.sgy@cox.net> wrote:
>
> Just a short note to let you all know I'm fine. We did evacuate for this
> storm (we didn't for Katrina), as each subsequent forecast put the storm
> farther to the east. We left about 5 PM on Thursday after hastily
> gathering
> a few family heirlooms and important papers. We really weren't sure where
> we were going. We ended up in Shreveport, LA, about 200 mile NNE at a
> friend's home for the night. Friday morning we decided to make a road trip
> out of it and headed to our daughter's home in Columbia, MO, earning us
> the
> honor of having evacuated the farthest. We returned home today to find the
> yard littered with large branches (we have about 50 trees in our yard),
> but
> otherwise, no damage. Lily (a Cat. 1-2 direct hit two years ago) stripped
> the trees of nearly all leaves. Rita wasn't near as bad. I'm told we only
> lost power for about 4 hours. Yet another bullet dodged. I got to find a
> new place to live. This is getting old.
>
> Jim Pickard
> B9473298
> Lafayette, LA





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