Dennis the Menace(Emily on deck)

[Randy Treadway]

WhereEVER you move, the idea is if you're within 500 miles of Florida, your sanity is questionable if you choose to live in a trailer, ESPECIALLY if it gets torn up in a hurricane, and you move RIGHT BACK into ANOTHER trailer.
Ever heard of the three little pigs that built their houses out of straw, sand, & bricks?

[tafnut]

>>your >sanity is questionable if you choose to live in a trailer, ESPECIALLY if it >gets torn up in a hurricane, and you move RIGHT BACK into ANOTHER >trailer.<<

Randy, I'm sure you don't mean to insult my parents-in-law, who are 82 and 74 and have lived there since their early 20s. They wished to stay, even after last year, moved into a trailer after their home was GONE, and wanted to rebuild to the new code (150mph wind-proof). Now they are going to have to sell their prime water-front lot to a developer who will put up high-rise condos if he can get enough lots in a row. This is not a comic matter, as you can imagine.

[utopian]

When you are older, you go where your memories or your friends are--hopefully where both are.

And you go where your bones can stand the weather and you live in what you can afford.

I live in New England, which may seem to contradict the above, but all we suffer from is cold. My driveway is short and flat; shovelling it is a snap. We have snow tires, and I'm very careful on the ice with both the car and my feet.

Tornados are rare and when they come, they are small.

I don't have arthritis, but I do have pseudo-gout which is affected by humidity. I can't go to the eastern South.

Once-in-a-while I mention Bisbee, AZ. My wife says to not even bother to send her a postcard. Something about being unable to abide low houses baking in the hot sun.

[Randy Treadway]

One of my aims in life (don't know whether I'll make it or not) is to get myself into a financial position where IF my parents are ever reduced to the point where they have to live in an unsafe dwelling, I can help out to get them moved into something safe.
I realize not everybody is able to help out like that, but it's a nice goal. (So far my folks wouldn't need that kind of help, they're settled into an extremely solid retirement house in the North Carolina mountains).
No offense intended and sorry if it came off that way.

[tafnut]

>One of my aims in life (don't know whether I'll make it or not) is to get >myself into a financial position where IF my parents are ever reduced to the >point where they have to live in an unsafe dwelling, I can help out to get them
>moved into something safe.<<

Our irony is that the lot is worth MAJOR money, so they are rich in that regard, but it's not helping them right now.

[I knew you didn't mean it that way, but I'm thin-skinned about the in-laws, no offense taken]

[guru]

Here comes Emily, expected to follow the same path as Dennis, perhaps a bit more east, and hit Sunday or Monday.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT ... VIS/20.jpg

[Jack Slocombe]

Here is a better website to both track where the storm has been and where it is expected to go.

Looks like it will be south of Cuba on the 17th.

http://hurricane.terrapin.com/

[tafnut]

If Emily gets to the end of Cuba and hangs a right, as many are wont to do, P-cola gets it again.

[SQUACKEE]

emily gaining strenght. i hope you guys dont hit again! life is not fair sometimes.

[Randy Treadway]

"Well the first thing you know Tafnut's a millionaire,
Kinfolk said "Tafnut move away from there!"
Said "Californy is the place you ought to be"
So they loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly.

Hills, that is. Swimmin' pools, movie stars."

Earthquakes.

[mike renfro]

Sister and mom should be back in Pensacola today. With the dogs. They let the cats ride it out. I suspect that they are getting nostalgic for earthquakes. And here comes the big E. I am pretty sure they are going to stay in the panhandle, but damn. On the up side, our SE US daughter will be leaving Atlanta next year. She gave it 2 years. Houses affordable, but Atlanta is surrounded by waaaaay too much Georgia.

[tafnut]

I'm here for the duration - which is either the 20.7 years indictated by the on-line test or the 2.3 years as determined by Hurricane Percival of 2007.

[guru]

lol Randy. Very good:).

[mike renfro]

>I'm here for the duration - which is either the 20.7 years indictated by the
>on-line test or the 2.3 years as determined by Hurricane Percival of 2007.

Pat, did your in-laws get more damage/loss? Last night Rebecca said the house "was still standing" which is pretty non commital. She is far enough off the beach that she got out with "tree pruning, water the lawn and such with Ivan.

[SQUACKEE]

I'm here for the duration - which is either the 20.7 years indictated by the on-line test or the 2.3 years as determined by Hurricane Percival of 2007

is the florida track club still in existence?
shorter's old team.

[tafnut]

>>Pat, did your in-laws get more damage/loss?<<

Got the call this morning. Two of three FEMA trailers are unliveable. The third has blown out windows. No power and the prospects for getting it are not good this week. My wife put her foot down and told her parents they're staying here for at least a month. First time I ever heard her dad say, 'yes, ma'am' to her. Crusty Old South type. The Vegas line has them moving to Jax by end of year.

[tafnut]

>>is>the florida track club still in existence?
shorter's old team.<<

Not as the team he was on. I still see the distinctive shirt around - but the club as a distance 'enclave' does not exist any more.

[jrun]

<<<Got the call this morning.
>Two of three FEMA trailers are unliveable. The third has blown out windows. No
>power and the prospects for getting it are not good this week. My wife put her
>foot down and told her parents they're staying here for at least a month. First
>time I ever heard her dad say, 'yes, ma'am' to her. Crusty Old South type. The
>Vegas line has them moving to Jax by end of year.>>>

---
Need to borrow my copy of 'Meet the Fockers?'

[tafnut]

>>Need to borrow my copy of 'Meet the Fockers?'<<

I like them just fine (despite cataclysmically different upbringings), but you may notice a slight INCREASE in my on-line time (MJD just fainted), as I bunker down for the duration. My computer is in a sacrosanct home office, off the master bedroom.

[SQUACKEE]

my inlaws spend 2 months with us every summer here in connecticut. yes, they live in florida.
they are very nice but 2 months!

you need:

sense of humour

hiding place

runners high or other drugs

[tafnut]

you need:

sense of humour - check

hiding place - check

runners high or other drugs - I anticipate running a tad more in the upcoming months

[morules]

tafnut consider yourself lucky. down here we had to deal with three hurricanes in like two months last yr..... it gets hot w/o A/C!!

[gh]

>>>Pat, did your in-laws get more damage/loss?<<

Got the call this morning.
>Two of three FEMA trailers are unliveable. The third has blown out windows. No
>power and the prospects for getting it are not good this week. My wife put her
>foot down and told her parents they're staying here for at least a month. First
>time I ever heard her dad say, 'yes, ma'am' to her. Crusty Old South type. The
>Vegas line has them moving to Jax by end of year.>>

FEMA trailer town "socioeconomic time bomb"

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f ... 01&sc=1000