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Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 7:49
PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Almost up in
flames
Wendell ( hoping for calm winds and no flames tonight)
Wow,
Wendell! Sure glad it turned, and hope it doesn't come
back.
Cheers,
Rusty (think I
like hurricanes better than fires)
I don't care much for either. It was
exciting around here. At least with hurricanes there is some
warning. My neighbor lost most of his pasture and a lot of baled
hay. I don't know how the cattle survived since there wasn't one blade
of grass unburned.
Had winterized the irrigation system and
had to set it all up again. We got the pump suction line put back into
the pond and finally got some water up to the house. If it wasn't for
the wind shift from the cold front coming through, I think we probably
wouldn't have gotten the pump and piping on line soon enough by the way it was
moving ( took about 3 hours to get water going). These things were even
jumping Interstate 35. Traffic backed up for miles.
My shop where the plane project is, its
just an old uninsured grass surrounded pole barn "converted" to a work
shop.
By 11pm the local fires were knock down and
couldn't smell smoke in the house.
The news said north Texas also had a lot of wild
fires with loss of some homes. I don't know total of homes lost in
Oklahoma today, but sadly there were several. Thankfully, all turned out
okay here.
Wendell