September 20, 2003, 18:08
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Originally posted by OzzyKP
This is a wimpy hurricane, I'm disappointed.
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You're lucky, count your blessings.
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September 20, 2003, 18:35
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#152
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Originally posted by KrazyHorse
I get more than that. After rent and taxes I'm getting 1200 a month.
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good for you 
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September 22, 2003, 17:54
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Have been out power since Thursday and still am (posting from work). Lost water for a couple days. Now have water, but have to boil it. Very large tree hit my house and is leaning against it. Not much danger to the structure, but if it falls down to the other side or along the builiding it will hurt someone. Is at a 5-10 deg angle leaning against building. Wind moves it...
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September 22, 2003, 18:02
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Most of my coworkers are still out of power at home. Damn suburbanites! 
My electricity didn't even flicker once since it's all served underground. Since my condo faces the alley, it was almost like we didn't have a storm. I went out the next day and about a third of the trees lining the street were split in two at the trunk. 
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September 22, 2003, 18:04
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#155
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Originally posted by TCO
Have been out power since Thursday and still am (posting from work). Lost water for a couple days. Now have water, but have to boil it. Very large tree hit my house and is leaning against it. Not much danger to the structure, but if it falls down to the other side or along the builiding it will hurt someone. Is at a 5-10 deg angle leaning against building. Wind moves it...
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I feel for you..this is why you cant judge a Hurricane by what it looks like in ocean or its winds or Category classification...
I been there TCO..not much fun..I went 5 days w/o electricity....
Hang in there...
Hope it passes soon!
Peace
Grandpa Troll
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September 22, 2003, 18:47
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Originally posted by KrazyHorse
I get more than that. After rent and taxes I'm getting 1200 a month.
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that's as much as I do before rent
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September 22, 2003, 18:49
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Originally posted by TCO
Have been out power since Thursday and still am (posting from work). Lost water for a couple days. Now have water, but have to boil it. Very large tree hit my house and is leaning against it. Not much danger to the structure, but if it falls down to the other side or along the builiding it will hurt someone. Is at a 5-10 deg angle leaning against building. Wind moves it...
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that really sucks
can you cut the tree off yourself?
I know that your being home did nothing, but it was probably good that you were
Jon Miller
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September 23, 2003, 19:23
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We had thunderstorms and tornadoes here yesterday (no tornado next to me, but very violent wind.)
The tree moved!!!
It is now off my house and standing back up. I think this is really dangerous. If it falls along my house, it will hit a main street and kill some people. It needs to come down. It is huge. 4 feet in diameter, 70 feet tall.
And if it hits back into my house it will hit harder, I bet. Or if it falls accross from me, it will have a lot of momentum and take down a brick wall house.
Nobody took me seriously and the tree has already moved once like I said it might with a thunderstorm!
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September 23, 2003, 19:37
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Originally posted by chegitz guevara
You're lucky, count your blessings.
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I spoke too soon.
It was weird, the storm seemed very week. The wind didn't seem bad at all, and we just got a steady but not hard rain. Even so I lost power for 2 days.
Went out on Thursday, spent that night with my housemates cooking dinner around candle light and listening to AM on my handcrank survivalist radio. Friday I cleaned up most of the fallen limbs and branches in the yard. Ihad a pile 6 feet long and 3 feet tall on my curb. A shrub/tree thing tipped over and I got to hack it up with my neighbor's chainsaw. Then I waited in line for an hour for dryice before they ran out and I was turned away.
Friday night I drove 45 minutes north to Frederick to get some bags of ice at a liquor store to try and preserve my fridge food. Everywhere closer was completely sold out of ice. Saturday I drove down to AU to check my e-mail and hang out with friends who had power, and when I returned power was back! Hooray!
After two days of power, it went out again last night. Damn you Pepco!! I was working on my 'puter and talking to a few people when my house suddenly went black, then 2 seconds later the lights came on, 5 seconds later off again, half a second on again, and then after another 3 seconds off for a few hours. Everything came on again at like 2 in the morning and woke me up.
Some friends of mine are just getting their power back on now.
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September 23, 2003, 20:03
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I just got it back this morning. blew me away. I thought I would have to wait another week. Most of my coworkers still don't have it. Richmond is so screwed.
I called the city and got a name of someone and told her that if that tree falls and kills someone, I will let everyone know that I warned her. She is sending firemen...again.
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September 23, 2003, 20:11
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yah
just have it cut down
inOregon they will pay you 400 for a good tree
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September 23, 2003, 20:16
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Go learn something.
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September 25, 2003, 10:47
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Originally posted by Jon Miller
that's as much as I do before rent
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That's over 9 months though. To keep that up I need an RAship in the summer...
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September 25, 2003, 11:12
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So do you still have a job after the shitbomb you left, TCO?
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I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
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September 25, 2003, 13:45
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That's over 9 months though. To keep that up I need an RAship in the summer...
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you should be able to set aside enough to make through the summer with that much (After most expenses) a month
my school promised summer support, does yours?
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September 25, 2003, 15:09
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Only to the tenured.
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September 25, 2003, 16:13
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Originally posted by DanS
So do you still have a job after the shitbomb you left, TCO?
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Yeah. The other SBU is going to get squeezed out!
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