I Hope Everyone Is Ok

[DansBlown73Nordic]

I hope all you guys down south are ok. That must have been a hell of a storm... eek!

[Wet Dream]

We cool :D

[shirkey4750]

Talked to a friend of mine who's daughter lives outside of Norfolk Va. They have no power, and they are rationing gasoline to $5.00 per car. Long lines for everything.

[CV-23]

Most of PA just had high winds....little rain. My parents had no power for 36hrs. We pulled all the boats on Thurs but put them back in for the weekend. No high water or flooding in Central PA. Actually had a great boating weekend here.....MD, NC and VA did not.....Mike.

[ezstriper]

I'm in Fredericksburg, Va., They had wind gust cloched at 82, severe damage everywhere, we were without power, phones for 4 days, we anchored our
50' Gibson out from our Marina in a cove along with several other boats, we did fine, one 40' sedan next to us pulled free, drifted about a mile
and came to rest on top of another marina's dock.
It now sits high and dry on the dock. There was another marina about 1/2 mile down the creek we were on that was completly wiped out, about a dozen boats sunk, all docks destroyed, lots of waterfront resturants around all destroyed, our marina came thru very well as did our boats, the potomac river is so full of debris is unreal, but we are very thankfull,Hope everybody faired as well as we did in the area. Thanks, Rob...

[Adrenalin]

Besides the obivious inconveniences all here is ok. I hope everyone else is. My jet boat has not been out of the garage since BOTE at Anna. I did take the ski boat out once in July. No one told me about working for a living when I was young.....now it is tooo late. By the looks of the pictures the last BOTE event was "business as usual". Keep in touch
Jay

[Freak]

Trees were a fall'in at 6pm. At 9pm I could hear them but no longer see them. That sucked. All my neighbors have damage, I have none. I prayed before the storm and thanked god after. Also I went down and boarded up the house in OBX on tues. Mass distruction down there but the house is perfect! Power was back online sat eve.
[ September 22, 2003, 01:29 PM: Message edited by: Freak ]

[miketsouth]

just got power back from thursday afternoon. ran house on diesel generator. Was reduced to dialup. The latter was the only hardship.

[fat rat]

Everything here was "Jim-Dandy"....lost power for 50+ hours. I have a generator that I thought ran fine, ended up doing a carb rebuild and f%ck'd my back up in the process. We took the bike's out Friday mid morning to check out the bay......all I can say is we saw some pretty incredable damage....picture will come later, I hope. :cool:

[miketsouth]

fat rat:
ended up doing a carb rebuild and f%ck'd my back up in the process. Yeah, Rich. Them briggs carbs are real heavy. And the huge bolts that hold them to the head are SO hard to get out. :confused: :D :D
Oh yeah i did find what the difference between a blower carb and a regular carb is. should have been able to figure it out for myself. Dam. Well i figgured out the biggest important difference,,,they cost more. :D :D

[Moomawnster]

We got a little wet at the swamp !
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/139Swamped.jpg

[miketsouth]

Hey Moo, is that Seneca?

[HammerDown]

Moomawnster:
We got a little wet at the swamp !
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/139Swamped.jpg Brother Moo...any Gators eek! in them there Swamps :p

[Moomawnster]

Yeah Mike thats my place in Seneca ! The water only got waist deep in the lower floor .... not bad considering ..... Be ready next week , if the water is down enough I am going out on the Potomac , I haven't seen any gators yet Hammer but if I do I'll save ya some of the Bar-BQ ! eek! ..... Moomaw was bitchen Fri , I got in some fine runs across the lake and went swimming ..... Sat I will be at Summersville Lake to continue my Frosty Balls quest ........ :D Moo

[miketsouth]

Moo you call, i be there. River here full of gators. Might try a short cruise tommorow. By my lonesome or maybe with the dog.
Dog good, no bullshit attached.

[Moomawnster]

We gotta haul you to MOOMAW Mike ! the water is clear and cool and everybody is gone ! we ski come hell or HIGH WATER ! :D I will call sun nite or mon... we'll see what the potomac looks like ! Well ... off to Summersville ! Moo

[miketsouth]

Shirkey told me about how nice Moomaw was, and how remote. Sounds killer to me.

[blown daytona]

The storm itself was'nt to bad (wind & rain) But the storm surge (about 7 foot) took out most of the docks on the Pax (including mine,150 foot worth :( ) We lost power for 5 days :( (Lucky I have a generator with a transfer switch :) ) I spent the last two weekends rebuilding. I should have the dock finished within two weeks (Just in time for winter :D )

[DansBlown73Nordic]

Sorry to hear about the dock. You had a storm surge up the Pax? How far are you from the big puddle? wink

[VD CRUISER]

Just got our power back this evening. I was lucky, some of my neighbors were not, they have huge trees in the middle of their houses. Boat is ok, had it in a buddies garage. Been doing a lot of cooking on the grill and reading by candle light. I feel blessed though.

[blown daytona]

Dans66Stevens:
You had a storm surge up the Pax? How far are you from the big puddle? wink We are about 15 miles up river from the chesapeake bay. Tide normally can go up or down one to two feet (except last week) I heard the bay had about a ten foot surge eek!