On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 06:20:44PM -0500, Ron Rogers wrote: > 8 of 26 boats have been raised. They are being preserved for the lawsuits! > Quite a bit of charred wood has been stirred-up. Not much fuel or oil has > been released and we are still boomed-in. We are back to routine, but we > have allot of salvage noise. It beats watching paint dry, but not by much. > This is this dock builders first attempt at salvage and it shows. The > Internet would have revealed to him the concept of a shear leg barge crane. > His method makes retrieval quite difficult and further damages the wreckage. > It is very sad. Silverware knives had their blades burn off and liquor > bottles formed puddles of glass. A man's tool bag survived intact and we are > considering building boats out of whatever it is made of! An aluminum boat > on the edge of the fire survived very well, although the pilothouse interior > burned. The exterior aluminum and paint was unharmed! We assume that flying > embers set the interior afire. They say she has still been totaled. At least > her gas fuel tanks never caught. She was adjacent to the fire line.
Wow; that's not even half of them yet. I'm glad to hear that what's in there hasn't spilled much fuel or oil, and that there are booms to contain what has been spilled. Also, if they're not using a barge crane, what the hell are they using? > Last Wednesday I got to address Red Cross fund raisers to tell our story and > thank the Red Cross for the work they did that night and the ensuing days. > Don't forget to give to your LOCAL Red Cross - the national Red Cross does > not share any money with the local chapters. This probably varies from country to country. Up here in Canada, your sort of situation is handled by the Canadian Red Cross. I say this with a good degree of confidence because my wife worked at the CRC for a while as the Manager of Disaster and Homeless Operations (for Toronto), and most of her department's work was dealing with small-scale disasters (basically feeding/clothing/sheltering people whose homes had been destroyed or otherwise made uninhabitable by fire). Good luck, Kris -- Kris Coward http://unripe.melon.org/ GPG Fingerprint: 2BF3 957D 310A FEEC 4733 830E 21A4 05C7 1FEB 12B3 _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
