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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 7:56 am
Grace, I will keep chcecking here to see if you get in touch with them. Until then I am sending out good thoughts their way.
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 9:12 am
Gracie, please leave an update post as soon as you know something. Thanks! I'm hoping all is well with Dra, Jmm and family.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 11:48 am
Finally got through to Dra! He says the 16 pound cat was sitting on the phone. I wonder if the cat was talking to Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig? Dra says he was doing tvch morning maintenance when the tornado touched down. The power, phones, and of course internet were all out for a while, too. Anyway, except for the dumpster flipping over and blowing across the lot into a ditch and the neighbor's fence toppling over onto their driveway, they are OKAY! 
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 12:22 pm
YAY for OKAY! Thanks for the update, Grace!
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Regee
Member
10-09-2005
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 1:29 pm
Oh thanks so much, I just caught a tad of it on the news and didn't know that is where they were at. And yes, YAY for OKAY
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 2:06 pm
Yay for Okay! 
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 2:24 pm
We are spending the winter in Draheidville too, but we had gone over to Houston for the weekend. We were plenty worried about coming back after hearing about the tornadoes yesterday in Draheidville. We made it back safely, and there was no damage to the house or property, but it was apparent there had been a power outage. And the heretofore dry Blanco River was raging and had obviously been over the roadway while we were gone. It looked like huge trees and stumps had been dragged off the roadway at the river crossing. The house where we are staying in is on the Blanco River but way up on a bluff, not even remotely in danger from the river.
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 3:36 pm
Juju you just love to cause the weather to do strange things whenever you are in the area!! hahahahaha
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 3:56 pm
Juju2bigdog is innocent. My birdbath is still frozen. It is still in the shade. It went down to 27 or 28 last night. I found my flannel sheets and they are in the washing machine now. Brrrrrrr
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Tater
Member
03-19-2003
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 3:57 pm
Well, we are in our second day of Ice Storm 2007. More freezing drizzle expected overnight. We still have power but the blankets and flashlights on standby! LOL!
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 4:07 pm
My son pulled the ice ring out of our bird bath yesterday afternoon. It's frozen again today.

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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 4:08 pm
I'm sitting here delaying taking my dog out in the freezing weather cause I'm a chicken. And my mom just told me that it's 70 degrees there. Sigh.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 4:20 pm
It was 72 degrees in Virginia earlier. CRAZY.
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 5:03 pm
tater, we are getting the crap here, too. i am one of the select few in town who still has electricity. all of my friends and family here in town have lost theirs! it looks like it has ended now, thank God! it will take days to get everyone's power back on.
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Tater
Member
03-19-2003
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 5:26 pm
Stay warm and safe Jbean! I think we are just on the edge of the really heavy ice. Thank goodness!
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 5:44 pm
11° and lightly snowing. Ya'll need to move to Alaska where the weather is nice.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 5:56 pm
Just got done shoveling....again! However, despite the nearly constant snow, and my being really sick of looking outside and seeing nothing but white, and despite the last few days being extremely cold (single digit temps at best), I do have to say I am ultimately grateful..... Grateful I'm not in the area dealing with the ice storms. I'll take snow over ice any day. I'm grateful for the neighbors on the south side of my house, who have used their snow blower on my walk for the last two storms, including digging out the curb area leading from the driveway to the street so I could get my car out. I'll admit I'm flabbergasted, cause these are the same neighbors who (in the past) wouldn't hesitate to call Code Enforcement on me when my yard isn't mowed promptly enough to suit them. Perhaps that gesture of support I showed them this past summer when their dog was hit by a car broke a bit of that ice? I'm also grateful to the neighbors on the north side of my house, who apparently rented a mini-tractor to dig their house out. They had been on vacation for the first two (and worst two) storms. So the snow bank in front of their house was horrible. He not only completely cleared the entire bank in front of his house, he cleared it from in front of our house. Now granted, he does get a lot of visitors, and they sometimes have so many cars they have to fill up the space in front of our house, so he probably did it for that reason. But now, if anyone does come to visit us (ha ha), at least they have a place to park. Also, the ensuing melt off would have had no place to go with the snow bank there, and we would have had a skating rink for a sidewalk. So now that problem is solved as well. I'm also grateful for the two different groups of kids during the first two (and worst two) storms who came by and shoveled the walk/driveway at just the right time (when I was just about ready to go out and shovel it myself). I'm especially grateful to the first group of kids who took an IOU from me when I had no cash, no checks (checks were on order and who knows where since the mail couldn't get through the storm), and no way to pay them immediately for their services. That first storm (the worst of all 4) probably would have still had me shoveling out from with my single plastic shovel! Add to that I'm grateful to my sis who gave me cash to give the kids earlier than they expected to be paid. So, all in all.... Despite the fact I am sick of snow, sick of being cold, and sick of my car battery dying in the cold (BTW, I'm also grateful for the battery charger my sis left at our house so I could recharge the battery each time it happens) I really have been fortunate in this really dreary winter.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 5:57 pm
We are expecting more winds and rain for the next few days. Of course one of the Texas weathermen is telling all these yahoos there is a chance of ice on the roads. eta: Whoami, you have been blessed. I'll send up another prayer of thanks.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 8:09 pm
It was 9 degrees this morning when I went to bed about 2am. It only got up to 37 this afternoon.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, January 15, 2007 - 6:02 am
-6 right now. Up from the -9 it was a couple of hours earlier. 
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Pashine362
Member
08-20-2005
| Monday, January 15, 2007 - 6:22 am
Right now in Northeast Ohio it is 55 and raining. In fact we have flood warnings/watches up. I'm just glad it is rain and not ice!
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, January 15, 2007 - 6:57 am
Western New York is pretty much covered in ice this morning. Warnings are out for the entire day and then we're supposed to get snow this evening. Sounds like a LOT of the country is getting ice right now! How wierd!
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Monday, January 15, 2007 - 7:05 am
Well from being in the 80's in Hawaii, to experiencing a Tsunami warning Friday evening, to being home today (safely arrived and drove home yesterday) We have freezing rain, no school and snow scheduled to come later today. I think I miss Hawaii's warm summer temperatures, but I am glad I am home and if it is going to be winter here in Ontario, well then dammit...give us the winter lol
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, January 15, 2007 - 7:17 am
I guess I need to change "Sounds like a LOT of the country is getting ice right now!" to a LOT of the continent! Crazy!
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Halfunit
Moderator
09-02-2001
| Monday, January 15, 2007 - 11:32 am
What Pashine362 said.
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