Re: Australian Fires and Floods, L3, ATTN Jo Anne

2009-02-13 Thread Jo Anne
Doug -- No worries. And I hope you're pronouncing Willamette right. Every time we have guests from out of the area we have a pronunciation session on wil-LAM-et, instead of the other way they usually want to pronounce it =+)) Amities, Jo Anne evens...@hevanet.com

Re: Australian Fires and Floods, L3, ATTN Jo Anne

2009-02-12 Thread Charlie Bell
On 12/02/2009, at 7:48 AM, Jo Anne wrote: BTW, Ray and Maree went back to Australia on Feb. 4. They live S.E. Of Melbourne. I haven't heard from them and I hope they are OK. Does anyone know I haven't spoken to them, but I don't think there were any fires around them - the

Re: Australian Fires and Floods, L3, ATTN Jo Anne

2009-02-12 Thread Doug Pensinger
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Jo Anne evens...@hevanet.com wrote: Doug -- what a fascinating account! I think your brother-in-law ought to write a book. So few of us ever experience that kind of thing. Freight trains certainly get a bad rap in the noise department. The Engineer's

Australian Fires and Floods, L3, ATTN Jo Anne

2009-02-11 Thread Jo Anne
Doug -- what a fascinating account! I think your brother-in-law ought to write a book. So few of us ever experience that kind of thing. Freight trains certainly get a bad rap in the noise department. The Engineer's brother and his gf were in the path of Ike. They were in the eye for somewhere

Re: Australian Fires and Floods, L3, ATTN Jo Anne

2009-02-10 Thread Doug Pensinger
Charlie wrote: Or give something to your local volunteer fire service. In a few months, it'll be the northern hemisphere on fire. So true. There were two fires in Santa Cruz county last June which, prior to that, had been known as asbestos county because of the lack of wildfires over the