Friends in Need When Nature Hiccups, Natural Disasters forum Options

[belleraphon1]

Sincerely hope all you UMSFers on the West Coast are OK! Read Emily's blog....
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001576/

Widfires and now an earthquake... scary...

Concern from an Ohioan who only worries about getting snowed in once or twice a winter season.

Craig

p.s. With global climate change this forum may get a few posts or two in this century!

[CosmicRocker]

We finally made it back home tonight. The county road was passable all day, but we had to wait until evening while the road was used by ranchers trying to round up and evacuate 3000 head of cattle from pastures that had been flooded with salt water. We were extremely fortunate in that our house had only minor damage that I can easily repair. Two large Yellow Pines fell away from the house. I wish the four remaining ones had fallen, too. They are a significant threat if they fall on the house in the next hurricane.

I'll be pretty busy tomorrow helping some of my less fortunate neighbors, but I'll try to get an album of pictures up when I have time. In the meantime, our local radio station has a page up with links to a lot of local pictures and video. Of course, you could also do this.

Oh yeah, here's a little surprise we found on our front porch as we drove up. The poor thing didn't look very well, but I kept our little dog in the vehicle until I could assess the situation. I was sorry to note that when I walked up to it and tapped it's tail with my foot, it did not move. I wonder what did the little fellow in. I was thinking of skinning it out. Anyone here know anything about curing gator hides?

I guess I had better start googling...