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Date:         Mon, 9 Sep 96 14:42:06 EDT
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         snuggles@VNET.IBM.COM
Subject:      Rumba Survives Hurricane Fran

hey now,

Well, i survived the trip home from work Friday night. it was very interesting. i don't know how fast the winds were blowing but i got home about 1:00am and the hurricane came through about 3am or 4am. didn't really need the wipers because the rain was horizontal. kinda cool. the bus did well...usual wind problems. i was on i-40 where there are 6 lines to both sides. i was in the far left lane because i knew i'd get blown a bit. had the road pretty much to myself. bus was being rocked a bit..all of a sudden a VERY strong gust blew me from the far left to the far right...across two lanes of the highway. all i could do was hang onto the steering wheel. never felt anything like it. then when i was in raleigh..i saw a large branch FLY in front of me. weird. turned down clark street. wind was getting really strong. i drove under a large pine in time to see it starting to fall just as i passed. whew. drove in the driveway, ran into the house, got soaked in about 10 seconds.

luckily, amanda and i and the house didn't have any damage. about 4 feet of water in the basement, which we siphoned out yesterday buy filling a hose up at the spiget, then sticking it in the basement under water. put the other end down a hill in the backyard. slow but it got rid of all but 2 inches of water. still no power, maybe none till wednesday. there's a bug across the street that got crushed by a lare oak? tree. hurts to look at it.

no time to look rumba's sticky parking brakes. since it's dried up, we've had no problems though. spend saturday and sunday looking for ice and water to no avail. found beer though.

take care,

jonathan

'74 Retrowesie (Rum/\/\ba) '90 Taurus (DamnFord) '76 Fiance (Da Woman) '96 RastaKitty (Marley)


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