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It's Another TGIF
Hi, everyone! Welcome to Friday, and I hope everybody has one great day wherever you might be. I'm stuck here at home today because some snow has fallen over the remaining patches of ice from the other day here in Dallas-Fort Worth, so my grocery shopping will have to wait. My temperatures are still in the 20s and we won't be above freezing until sometime tomorrow. So, with that said, I'll be here throughout the day just hoping to entertain you with some great music on some of these fine threads.
And please take time to enjoy all the other posts going on, too. Enjoy your day today, and remember,.......
WOOHOO 6 FOOT 3....This has been a dream of my husband's for quite some time & YOU DID IT...What a thrill it must of been!!!!
Yeap it was a thrill indeed especially when the giant wave came crashing down on me although as you could see i came out of it in crusing along in high gear
Yeap it was a thrill indeed especially when the giant wave came crashing down on me although as you could see i came out of it in crusing along in high gear
At least you have lived through one of your dream things to do.
I admire your free and trusting spirit. Don't stop reaching for the stars in goals you set for yourself. You are a daredevil indeed!!! I think being inside of the wave (I forget what they call it) stopped the wind from blowing you away!!!
You deserve a gold star for your accomplishment!!!
Pitt, I was in Albany, NY then and I don't remember that storm. Granted I turned 7 in 1972
I lived in S Florida from 1999 until 2007 and I witnessed many near misses an then came Wilma.
a category 5 storm, dropped to a 3 when it was over my house in Davie, our apartment had hurricane shutters, and it held up pretty well, but some of my neighbors had the roofs collapse or there cars flip over.
My Mom was a snow bird (lived in upstate NY in the Summer) and she spent her winters in Davie Fl in a senior citizen trailer park (the nicest trailer park I'd ever seen), I'd guess 150 of the 200 trailers in the place were totaled during Hurricane Wilma, my Moms included.
we went without power for 10 days and many went 3 weeks, palm trees and telephone poles and power lines littered all of the streets, most streets were closed.
Fun stuff
OK I found this one idiot who was out and about during the storm, and here's his account.
I was 15 during Agnes....the water had climbed to 41 feet and was just washing over the deck of a large bridge in Pittston....then a huge pile of debris smashed into the deck....it flipped up out of the water...it was a house flattened out which rose up somewhat intact "looking" before it disentigrated....then smashed half of one of the bridge piers off.
In Wilkes-Barre the Susquehanna river took a 4 lane bridge deck....all 6 plus spans and pushed it down to the next bridge....with lightpoles still intact.....absolutely incredible and terrifying.
I was in Sarasota for Wilma...we lost a few large Oak tree limbs but no house damage.....I'd hate to go thru the winds of a strong hurricane.....scary....Agnes was just days of tropical/torrential rains.
Yeap it was a thrill indeed especially when the giant wave came crashing down on me although as you could see i came out of it in crusing along in high gear
LOL...I'm still afraid to even go in the water in Sarasota.....and I've lived here 20 plus years.
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