[Trombone-l] Hurricane Winds Damage SW Ohio

[George Butler]

Hey Wayne,
 
What will this do to your FOOTBALL SEASON?  
 
I know, you're heartbroken.  :-)
 
Let us know if you need a music history textbook or whatever Fedexed to you.  Anything to keep you busy and out of trouble.  (You had mentioned catching up on your lecture preparation during Rita...)
 
Where are you at the moment, exactly?
 
George in Tallinn 

--- On Mon, 9/15/08, texastbone at gt.rr.com <texastbone at gt.rr.com> wrote:

From: texastbone at gt.rr.com <texastbone at gt.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Hurricane Winds Damage SW Ohio
To: "Denny Seifried" <ddsbstrb at woh.rr.com>
Cc: trombone-l at samford.edu
Date: Monday, September 15, 2008, 11:47 PM

WELCOME TO MY WORLD, DENNY!

That's pretty amazing that you all had that kind of damage.  We live just a
few minutes from the Gulfcoast.  Port Arthur is literally one street over from
my house, which is in a town called Nederland.  We are about an hour and a half
drive from Galveston, but it's actually closer than that as the crow flies. 
We have to take a ferry to get there, or drive an extra hour around the beltway
in Houston and get onto I-45.  I prefer the ferry.  It's free, and the kids
always love it.

We had some major damage to parts of our university campus, but our University
President announced today on the radio that the damage was not quite as bad as
three years ago from Hurricane Rita.  I find that hard to believe, but it must
be true.  Orange and Bridge City were entirely engulfed in sea water.  Our
electric company has 20,000 homes back on line with electricity, but over
200,000 homes are without.  They have a long way to go, and we are being told it
will be close to four weeks before every home is back online.  

No power?  Try no water and no sewer service!  It is not fun in our area right
now, so my family and I plan to stay here 5 hours to the north until the
all-clear signal is sent.  

Hang in there.  We're just enjoying a forced vacation, and making the best
of it.

--Wayne Dyess
Southeast Texas

---- Denny Seifried <ddsbstrb at woh.rr.com> wrote: 
> List Members---I know there are several list-members who live in SW-Ohio,
like myself. Yesterday, starting around noon, SW Ohio began being pelted by
hurricane-force winds of from 60-75 miles per hour. These winds were steady,
devastating and lasted until around 6 PM EDT. Most of our area is devastated, as
we have never experienced such a large area of Ohio with this amount of
wind-damage. We ARE used to tornado-damage, which proves even more devastating,
but covers a very narrow path.
> 
> Dayton Power and Light had 200,000 customers without power, last evening.
There are trees down, everywhere, power lines down, as a result of these downed
trees. Quite a few large business buildings have roofs and trusses blown down
and houses have tree limb damage and a lot of shingle damage. There are no
schools in sessions in at least a 5 country area, around Dayton OH. Several
communities have water-rationing going on, as not all pumping stations have
electricity.
> 
> While all of this was going on, you could see the sun shinning! Our TV
weather reporters claim this was a once-in-a-life time weather situation, which
will probably never again happen, in our lifetimes. Let's hope they are
correct.
> 
> I was very lucky. I had no power from around 1:00, until around 9:00. I
had the candles burning and had my Coleman lantern out on the porch, ready to
go. I had the top blown out of a beautiful sweet-gum tree, I had planted when I
first moved into this home, in 1972. It was some big-stuff that came down, but
the tree is far enough away from the house and it just landed in the yard. My
son is coming over, tonight, and we will start to chain-saw it up into pieces. I
will have to get a pro tree trimmer to finish the job, as several large limbs
are not completely broke-off and still hang in the tree or are caught up in the
tree. No-way, will I mess with these, as they are way too dangerous, without
being ABOVE them, in a bucket-truck.
> 
> I have some shingle-loss on my two-story garage, out behind the house. Not
bad, as this is a second layer, as I had it re-shingled two summers ago.
> 
> I went out and drove around a little. Some major intersections in town
have either no power or the lights are down and damaged; so, driving is very
tricky. I was lucky, as I saw some huge trees or huge branches that were into
and through roofs on homes.
> 
> Hope all of you along the Gulf Coast are safe and looks like we will all
be doing a lot of repairs and clean-ups, together, even though we are over 1000
miles apart in location!
> 
> Denny Seifried
> Bass Trombone-Springfield (OH) Sym. & Dayton Jazz Orch.
> Adjunct Trombone-Wittenberg Univ. Dept. of Music
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