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gettinjiggywithit
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Jellric
#4594609 - 08/29/05 10:09 AM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Putting out a request to send Jellric some S&P love right now. He's in Mississippi dealing with the front and back eye wall of Hurricane Katrina about now.
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Swami
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Go Jell-O!
Go Jell-O!
Go Jell-O!
Stay safe & dry little brother.
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Diploid
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He's alright. He's probably dating Katrina by now.
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gettinjiggywithit
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I'm watching the coverage now. The pictures and video footage of the after math are just unbelievable. Jell lives in the part the hardest hit.
Jell will appreciate knowing you guys were thinking of him and that you care.
I remembered after my old island home was creamed, it took 4 days before we could get out. All the boats sunk and the airport was trashed. The army was able to land on the 3rd day and started taking people out. Awful memories, anyway, when I finally got off the plane from Peurto Rico into Chicago, life was a buz and people were laughing and zoomin here and there.
I wanted to go up to them all and say, "Excuse me. Do you know what just happened in the V.I.?" The island looked like it had been at war for years and obliterated by bombs and tornados with over 100 killed in one night. Peoples lives were devastated and shock, confusion and numbness was the theme of the days in that zone. They needed help, a lot of help. Few in Chi town knew or cared. It was an awful feeling.
Jell, we know your world got flipped upside down and we care dude!
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kaiowas
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i hope everything is a'ok with him! Tell him to report back here ASAP
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Re: Jellric [Re: kaiowas]
#4603557 - 08/31/05 12:06 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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I remember in a Katrina thread in the pub Jell saying he lived near Biloxi.
I just saw footage of a helicopter touring that area. A mile in from the coast, it's just foundation slabs left.
If he lives further inland and made it, I'm not expecting to hear from him soon. Flood waters and streets packed with debris not to mentions peoples cars being fucked have it impossible to get out of there now. Cell phones are not working in that area either.
The focus on that area is search and rescue and getting refrigerated morgue trucks in there.
I've been watching most of the coverage and I am not able to grasp the extent of wide spread devastation that storm caused in a day.
I pleaded with everyone in the cone path, in a post in the pub to get the bleep out of there. What more can we do?
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Swami
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I just saw footage of a helicopter touring that area.
Did you see Jelly waving from the roof?
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gettinjiggywithit
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Re: Jellric [Re: Swami]
#4603719 - 08/31/05 01:00 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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WOW!
This is an S&P first. Swami is more optimistic then Jiggy on this one.
I think the pole shift happened.
Like I said, throughtout a twenty by one mile area covered in that footage there were no roofs and people waving from them because there were no homes left, just foundation slabs.
Katrina sucks the big one! I hate hurricanes. People at foo foo message boards are calling katrina a Goddess.
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Jellric
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He's in Mississippi dealing with the front and back eye wall of Hurricane Katrina about now.
That's fairly accurate timing for when you posted that,jiggy, maybe a bit earlier. Basically what happened is (as far as population centers and the eye of Katrina go) New Orleans got hit first, then Slidell, then us. We got the eye of Katrina about two hours after New Orleans. We are several miles inland and were spared the water-( the water is what kills most people in a hurricane). We did get 135 mph winds and plently of water and tornadoes and several deaths, but nothing like the other areas.
We did get a full punch of her winds and many trees were blown down onto roads, houses, and power lines with minor-major structural damage to many homes. I have been involved with setting up Red Cross shelters for the last few years so we sprang into action as soon as we were told to. We had 152 people at our location. We were at the shelter, one mile from our home when she hit. When the northern eyewall passed over us( Just like Camille did) we briefly got out and surveyed the damage. I got everyone back inside the shelter after ten minutes -my personal, conservative estimate of the minimum time we would have.
It turned out to be much longer, but I wanted to err on the side of caution. When we returned home (one mile) it took almost an hour to do so!
Anyway, I am unwinding now, but I just wanted to thank everyone who expressed their kind wishes to me, I truly appreciate it, folks. Please keep the victims who lost everything in your thoughts. This experience has definately renewed my faith in humanity.
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Re: Jellric [Re: Jellric]
#4606654 - 08/31/05 11:30 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thanks for the report Jell and good to hear you are OK. What a tragedy.
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