Tom,
Thanks for the message from Kevin. I'm glad to hear that he's all right
physically, though I can imagine that he's shaken up by the situation. Pass
along my well wishes the next time you have a chance to talk to him; I'm
sure I'm not the only one on the list that would like him to know that we're
thinking of him.
Matthew N8OHU
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:13:04 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
Just got phone service an hour ago. I am now running off
battery power through an inverter. I have over a thousand
messages to wade through via webmail. I am running a laptop
which does not pull mail from the server.
I am OK, rattled to the extreme, but OK. It took quite a while
to stop shaking after the tree fell a few feet from where I was
sitting. I was in the strongest part of the house and to
windward. The tree limbs were flying over that part of the
house but not at the windows. None were broken. Drywall and
broken branches exploded through the new room and the rest of
the house. Every few feet there was a hole through the roof. If
I'd have been anywhere but where I was I most likely would have
holes in me too!
Power may be back on by Thursday. I have not found the other
end of the broken G5RV or the tree which was supporting it. If
the trees were not in straight lines I would say we had been
hit by a tornado. Hundreds of trees are down on my twenty
acres. The four Trojan T-105 (backup batteries) started at 12.7
volts. They are down to 12.2 volts now after booting a desktop
unit to tranfer files to the laptop and running the IC-706 for
comms. I still have a J-pole up so I got my nephew to help me
limb the hemlock and cover the roof with plastic. Luckily the
wind and rain came to an end. It has snowed but that is not as
bad.
The water I had standing by in five gallon buckets froze but
that simply made it easier to transfer into the bathroom. I
used a pan to transfer the top few inches in the toilet tank
and the poured to the fill line. I've run out of back up water
so am going to a beaver pond tomorrow to steal some of their's.
I don't think they will mind because their pond is spring fed.
I'll get a few more days of flushing water. I have cut my way
down the mountain and have gotten more supplies. I did heat
some water on the wood stove for shaving and washing.
I hope to be back on the air but if priorities push the antenna
launch date off that is the way it goes. If I get power this
week it will ease my burden. Sure is nice to have Internet
contact again! I will stay in touch and keep you apprised of my
progress.
Any ideas on who to call to lift off the hemlock
tree?
Kevin.
73,
Tom N0SS
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