What a mess. The authorities said we here had nothing to worry about. No shutters were put up.
No preparations were made by most homeowners including myself because we were told it was
hitting in the next county north of Dade.
The storm drifted south of it's expected path so we got hurricane winds.
Not only that, but hours earlier than expected.
I"m writing by gasoline generator power. So many power lines are down, so many MANY trees
are down that it will probably be two weeks before my neighborhood gets powered back up.
I feel again like Hurricane Andrew did to us: but -this time there's more line and tree damage
in the city proper, and South. We lost a lot more trees. Not so much property destruction,
but again, in the suburbs to the South this time the flooding is bad and put a lot of folks out
(so I hear, I am not up on the news yet).
I'll post neighborhood pictures as I can. Other locals should post their pictures too.
Lucky that not many people were hurt or had their homes actually destroyed, as in so many
other cases.
:relief:
THEY said we had nothing really to worry about. :tap:
mikochu
08-26-2005, 08:35 PM
Yeah, I called my dad and he said one of our mango trees was up-rooted. Palm frawns everywhere. Some roof tiles broke. No electricity or phone. sigh...
I only have pics of my own and my neighbors' properties at the moment.
It was "interesting" to see near-hurricane winds build up before dark.. and see the debris flying.
We were not supposed to get any such winds as these. And not that early, either.
By 1AM it was all over, really. I just got online a half hour ago.
This is not an area to be pitied; it's not a hard luck zone. I do feel worse for those
who have very little to start with, then lose it all in storms like these.. those on the islands and such.
Placebo
08-26-2005, 08:52 PM
i liked the way ur rims looked be4
Solarxb20
08-26-2005, 09:17 PM
You ok down there? If you need anything let me know. I'm in West Palm and its not much of a drive if you are without. I work tomorrow.. sunday i'm off. Keep us posted.
SciFly
08-26-2005, 09:21 PM
Thanks to you all but we're all fine. We neighbors are commiserating. I met my new across-the-street neighbor!
His name is Raja. He's a pro basketball player. I helped him open his driveway gate cos I'm a mechanic. He'll teach me to dribble in return.
I drool already, doh! :P
HERE is a picture looking at my gray house from the next door neighbor's wrecked yard.
In the foreground is a giant ficus tree that's fallen because the winds pressed hard from the west.
That is my reinforced concrete privacy wall.
I am standing on the horizontal tree in order to take this shot.
The old tree was grown right up flush to that wall. It is about sixty years old.
Ficus trees are down all over Miami and Coral Gables.
Many are HUGE and shatterd and uprooted so many roads are blocked.
It will take a few days to clear paths for cars to get around them.
Coconut Grove where I live has lost more old trees this time around than from Hurricane Andrew of 1992.
When this tree fell, as we knew it would, it levered up the footings of the 35 year old wall and..... welll........ :tap:
This is one of three ficus that toppled last night along my property line.
wow its insane that a category 1 hurricane could do so much damage but be lucky that ur not in the panhandle they are going to get slammed by a 3 or 4
SciFly
08-26-2005, 09:30 PM
Yeah, we here are in shock that "80 to 90" mph winds did all this.
In fact, no matter what the official readings were at isolated places,
gusts must have been much higher at times because Andrew
did not do this much devastation.
Mind you, this is only my yard and the neighbors'.
Equally large trees down elsewhere are more photographable. I will do that asap.
I wish I'd bought an Echo gasoline chain saw. Too late now: there's not a one to be bought for a while.
Here is my side of the destroyed wall. Again, it's the shallow, invasive roots of the ficus that everyone here hates.
The trees topple easily. And those roots go out as far from the tree, as the canopy is tall.
At least no more roots are going into our septic drain field.
OTOH,, the heaved-up six inch thick steel reinforced slab also pulled up the drain pipe to the septic tank. :tap:
Insurance won't cover the wall. And for home damage? We here in Fl pay huge windstorm rates.. yet our deductable in this case will be $9,000.
How do really poor people get that way? Why... invest in Fl. real estate!
:rofl:
I never in my life got a direct hit. I think with Andrew I lost power for like a week maybe less but no damage. :relief:
SciFly
08-26-2005, 09:43 PM
You are far North of Andrew's direct path. Myself, 20 miles to the south of you, was still about 15 miles north of Andrew's worst.
Andrew was compact and fierce. Katrina was larger and not so fierce but it was wetter and
-I swear there must have been microbursts of nearly cyclonic action to have done all this that I'll be showing you guys.
Still in my yard....
But the storm growing, right? And if it's heading -anywhere near to where any readers live, take super precautions to protect yourselves. A weak storm here... and when it next meets land it'll be kaboom.
SciFly
08-26-2005, 09:48 PM
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/9060/screenshot3406ua.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
this is another section of the same wall.
It was taken out by the recent tropical storm. We'd just gotten the 80 foot ficus removed last week..
and spent 4K trimming the surviving ficus overhanging my property line... but three more went down last night.
Anywho! No matter the quality of the wall,
giant trees act like battering rams and crow bars. This is a battering ram event. The upper pictures are more of a crow bar effect.
Katrina, you are such a biyatch!
So! what did you do to those flimsy foam core doors
from that well-sheltered tool shed back at rear nook of the property?
Wind never got in there before.
next door, where the three ficus and several other large trees fell -towards-,
their yard is a total wreck but the old Rolls is OK.
Royal Palm pain-in-the-porte-cochere
Scion yellow / Beetle yellow. There's some white in that VW tint, I think
On the left in the distance is a very large Poinciana -down-, split asunder by whipping winds.
http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/9673/screenshot3521dp.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
SciFly
08-27-2005, 01:13 AM
These pictures all were taken at about 11AM.
Rain came and went.
Through the windshield...
Many cars had detoured around these trees,where possible, doing a snakelike
detour across homeowners' swales and driveways.
A few got stuck in the mud. I I stopped to give possible aid to a TCM.
(I carry the tow hook and a rope)
"I'm OK" she said. It was my boyfriend's car that just got pulled out.
a towtruck and a rice car were parked adjacently
http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/2097/screenshot3533kj.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
If this is all getting repetitious.. you're right.
But almost all the downed trees you've seen are separate trees and all are within a two square block area.
Now, muliply these by a thousand or five thousand and you get an idea what Miami Dade County looked like today.
Let's not forget all those in low areas that are flooded.
Reminder of respect all who may at some time find themselves in a storm's path.
I am sOOOooOOOOOOooooOOoooOOoOo glad you guys are ok down there. This isn't very encouraging for me, as this was a Cat. 1 and I'm new here!! Even though we didn't get hit, that's too close to home for me. I'm sorry you guys weren't more prepared, but the Weather Channel was no help. According to them, it was basically a Tropical Storm until it hit land....LOTS of warning..... :roll: Glad you guys are ok.
SciFly
08-27-2005, 01:50 AM
2k$ wall repair only two months old...
it was hand poured and full of rebar teel.
I told handyman, A.M Jr, , whose obsessive idea it was to make a "lasting" repair:
"When we get another storm, whether twenty years from now or two weeks,
your repair is going to go to hell. It does not matter how strong you build the wall back.
When this tree falls so will the wall."
That's why I wisely opened the cross-wise iron gate before the winds kicked up.
If I had not, then the gate would've caved in the wall of the block wall of the garage.
Wow! I'm glad you're okay and nobody was hurt. Now fix those wheels
and wipers before Scion comes and takes your car back. :P
SciFly
08-27-2005, 02:44 AM
Wow! I'm glad you're okay and nobody was hurt. Now fix those wheels
and wipers before Scion comes and takes your car back. :P
:ttth: It's precisely for the reason I don't want anyone to take it back :pray:
that I put it into such singular style
----
Thanks to all you guys who responded with offers of aid and empathy but you see,
I'm OK! And so, keep your hearts open for the next round of Katrina sufferers who
really will need helps.
take care, and never lean into high winds: flying objects really are a hazard. The
deaths here in the two county area came by crushings. In Andrew, it was both
crushes and flying objects.
One home I visited after Andrew (1992) displayed a concrete roofing tile embedded
in the solid pine wood front door paneling. Exactly like a tomahawk. That is the power of wind.
Raymond recalls reports of dry straws embedded in telephone poles after North Dakota cyclones.
Hurricanes generate small cyclones, too.
The sliding door pictured on page one blew out when its tempered glass exploded.
I spent a half hour last night leaning against the mahogany front door here until my mate
could find a set of two inch number ten wood screws. By turning these six screws
into the gap of the in-swinging door, between the swinging edge and the casement,
the door was made safe.
Otherwise the door would have blown open if the striker tongue tore out the wood of the door.
My late uncle Paul told me of his earliest memory:
at age 2 and a half, watching the entire roof of the neighbor's garage loft off and roll
lazily down the street, bump, bump and fall apart in the 120mph winds of the fateful
Miami hurricane of September, 1926.
HOLEY MOLEY... Hurricane season has not even peaked yet! This is only August.
:(
Chaos_Being
08-27-2005, 03:42 AM
Wow, those are some insane pictures. I've encountered a few tropical storms and two category 1 hurricanes, and I have to say that your pics show an incredible amount of damage for the strength of the storm you went through.
And its going to be worse when it hits again...seriously, this is the reason why I'll probably never live on the gulf coast or the carolina coast :nope:
Solarxb20
08-27-2005, 11:59 AM
The reason that 80 - 90 mph winds did that much damage is because it sat over you. One of the hurricanes we had last year sat over us for almost 12 hours as a CAT 2.. trust me there were trees down everywhere up here.
Good luck to those that are still in its path. And I see something else forming on the Atlantic.
Please pay attention to www.nhc.noaa.com and weather.com's tropical atlantic satallite. If you watch patterns you can tell which ones will get bad or which ones you should be concerned about. Don't let the weather man wait until last minute to give you info
Da_Mac
08-27-2005, 01:40 PM
Wow its good to hear you and your family are ok... I feel bad for the families who are now homeless and those families of the 7 people who have died in that storm.. G/L on the clean up and rebuild..
bahamut_zero
08-27-2005, 03:18 PM
Wow, looks like a mess down there for something I didn't think was that bad.
I love your box.
I shouldn't get it too bad here in the panhandle.
TJandBOXCARWILLIE
08-28-2005, 03:45 PM
What a mess.
THEY said we had nothing really to worry about. :tap:
They said a HURRICANE was coming. Does not matter if it's a cat one, or a cat five, a Hurricane is a Hurricane.
I watched the news like a hawk. And not one station said we had nothing to worry about. In fact, they went out of their way to point out, how we all need to take any hurricane serious.
If there is one thing that I hope we all learn, from this, is when they say a Hurricane is coming, believe them.
BangorXB
08-28-2005, 04:27 PM
i am glad u r ok.....BUT
i dont want to see whats goin to happen again tomorrow when the hurricane hits land again
JDZNate
08-28-2005, 05:02 PM
Holy crap! I'm glad you're alright.
tC_kevin
08-28-2005, 08:48 PM
WOW...at least the car is ok! :relief:
X_Box
08-28-2005, 08:51 PM
OMG .... TG ur ok!
miamibusta69
08-28-2005, 09:09 PM
I got one from next door. should of took more ! Hope you like.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/miamibusta69/IMG_0717.jpg
ptmccain
08-28-2005, 09:40 PM
Katrina hitting Miami is a cakewalk compared to what she is going to do when she slams into the New Orleans area.
Tomas
08-29-2005, 01:02 AM
Glad you folks are OK down there in the right bottom corner of the map, Reid. :nails:
Looks like lots of monetary damage, but so far appears to be just scatered minor injuries - at least
in Dade. :relief:
I used to live in 'tornado alley' in Texas, but the incessant, repeated hits Florida takes from
hurricanes is far, far worse. I couldn't live there, sorry.
Personally I'm happier with the volcanos and earthquakes in my neighborhood - at least we don't
get bad shots on such a frequent basis. (Yes, I can stand on the ground at the southeast
corner of my apartment and see two volcanos, but only one of 'em has blown her top recently...) :D
SciFly
08-29-2005, 04:47 PM
What a mess.
THEY said we had nothing really to worry about. :tap:
They said a HURRICANE was coming. Does not matter if it's a cat one, or a cat five, a Hurricane is a Hurricane.
I watched the news like a hawk. And not one station said we had nothing to worry about. In fact, they went out of their way to point out, how we all need to take any hurricane serious.
If there is one thing that I hope we all learn, from this, is when they say a Hurricane is coming, believe them.
Back online (had to get another generator)
TJ, That's not at all true. You live 40 miles north of me. The predictions as the storm got very close to shore put it at Broward County. WE in Miami and points south were all told to prepare for tropical storm winds, and no more. Even the vaunted weatherman, Brian Norcross did not shutter his house.
-Nobody in Miami shuttered up. Nobody was led to expect the storm coming into South Dade. Nor was it supposed to put hurricane winds in my neighborhood at 8PM. They were saying: Hallandale, maybe... high winds at 2AM.
So, it went far south and came much earlier than expected.
===Storm tracking is not accurate. The media should have advised better. I'll know better next time for sure===
SciFly
08-29-2005, 04:53 PM
The reason that 80 - 90 mph winds did that much damage is because it sat over you. One of the hurricanes we had last year sat over us for almost 12 hours as a CAT 2.. trust me there were trees down everywhere up here.
Good luck to those that are still in its path. And I see something else forming on the Atlantic.
Please pay attention to www.nhc.noaa.com and weather.com's tropical atlantic satallite. If you watch patterns you can tell which ones will get bad or which ones you should be concerned about. Don't let the weather man wait until last minute to give you info
I would tend to agree with that, but after driving around town I see how -many neighborhoods of Miami were spared heavy tree damage; even just two miles from our Grove/Gables area.
Pretty surely there were tornado-like downbursts and scrubbing swirls of winds which toppled and tore the trees in various directions.
A lesson I learned here is that -even a mild storm- can be really ferocious in areas. Far more than 90mph gusts, certainly. All these big trees were just as large back when Andrew struck with 140-160mph winds. Not so many fell then as fell by Katrina.
I recall Andrew as being strong, steady winds. This was whippy by comparison. Trees could not take it; even less so than sustained, faster winds of Andrew.
We have a lot of hurricane storys to tell here on Scionlife. Why, since last season there are millions of hurricanes' walking wounded. Thanks! for the input.
SciFly
08-29-2005, 04:56 PM
OK! As I write today, Louisiana and Alabama and Missisippi are suffering from a much larger Katrina.
I hope some of our members in the affected areas will make a picture thread like this one of the storm and its aftermath.
(You are also welcome to add pictures here)
-====
(still composing this form.. one moment)
TJandBOXCARWILLIE
08-29-2005, 05:17 PM
What a mess.
THEY said we had nothing really to worry about. :tap:
They said a HURRICANE was coming. Does not matter if it's a cat one, or a cat five, a Hurricane is a Hurricane.
I watched the news like a hawk. And not one station said we had nothing to worry about. In fact, they went out of their way to point out, how we all need to take any hurricane serious.
If there is one thing that I hope we all learn, from this, is when they say a Hurricane is coming, believe them.
Back online (had to get another generator)
TJ, That's not at all true. You live 40 miles north of me. The predictions as the storm got very close to shore put it at Broward County. WE in Miami and points south were all told to prepare for tropical storm winds, and no more. Even the vaunted weatherman, Brian Norcross did not shutter his house.
-Nobody in Miami shuttered up. Nobody was led to expect the storm coming into South Dade. Nor was it supposed to put hurricane winds in my neighborhood at 8PM. They were saying: Hallandale, maybe... high winds at 2AM.
So, it went far south and came much earlier than expected.
===Storm tracking is not accurate. The media should have advised better. I'll know better next time for sure===Ah, maybe Brian did not shutter his house, but the truth is, he should have listened to his newscast. EVERY newscast warned of how 'the cone of probility', as they call it, could, and would change...It's not an exact science. It's better then it was when Andrew hit, but not exact.
If you hear a storm is coming, and you think you need to prepare, then do so. It's that simple, really.
Sorry that damage was done. You can't get out Mother Natures Way when she is coming, no matter what. No media can stop her.
Well, I hope and pray that all up in New Orleans got out...
SciFly
08-29-2005, 05:29 PM
I got one from next door. should of took more ! Hope you like.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/miamibusta69/IMG_0717.jpg
:love: the picture! Am happy to see these ficus trees all go down. They are unfit for this area. Cheap, fast growing, destructive root systems... and they fall in a storm.
===
Joyce Kilmer. 1886–1918 (he died in WW1)
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
I think that we shall never see
a fall as muddy as our trees.
Torn and split by stormy winds
ficus, mostly, met their ends.
Adventitious roots ne'er grasped
deep enough, as Katrina passed.
Ficuses sideways today,
doomed to the chainsaw melee
The sinewed men with two stroke guts
Stihl Goliaths to saw dust.
Poems are grafted [/i]by men like us
who won't , no sirs!, plant more ficus
:P
TJandBOXCARWILLIE
08-29-2005, 05:31 PM
Did you hear, they want to make ficus illegal? I wonder if that would pass...
SciFly
08-29-2005, 05:41 PM
Of course they -should- do that. These are cheap, fast growing potted plants running amok, costing millions in damages.
I have notion that Miami banned planting ficus after Andrew. I may be mistaken.
I hate them even though I do like trees and these are shady, messy trees that take apart house foundations, drain pipes and drainfields.
====
Katrina hitting Miami is a cakewalk compared to what she is going to do when she slams into the New Orleans area.
damn straight.
now this is only an entertainment thread. People are really hurting worse up there.
A power company crew from HOUSTON was here in front today restringing the lines. We may get our juice back on today. This is really fast if its true.
Crews from all over are here helping out. Now they'll go on up to the Gulf states from here.
SciFly
08-29-2005, 05:52 PM
Entertainment while sweating in August heat
I have two xB adventures to share: one is about my high speed chase.
The other is about helping out a beautiful woman in distress.
I've got pictures for both stories.
Both adventures happened day before yesterday and both are not what you'd expect.
which story should run first? :P
chucksu
08-29-2005, 05:53 PM
:ponder:
SciFly
08-29-2005, 05:56 PM
Funny, Chucksu: I thought you'd jump for the beautiful woman first .
ha ha
TJandBOXCARWILLIE
08-29-2005, 06:02 PM
Woman, woman, woman, says most here...
Me? I say High Speed Chase.
chucksu
08-29-2005, 06:21 PM
How about something along the lines of: High speed chase leads to meeting of hot woman :bow:
Placebo
08-29-2005, 06:41 PM
becareful with that generator scifly heard alot of people are dying because of them on the news
Xenon_tC
08-29-2005, 07:01 PM
A friend of mine is stuck down in Louisiana rihgt now in the hurricane :nails:
SciFly
08-29-2005, 07:11 PM
How about something along the lines of: High speed chase leads to meeting of hot woman :bow:
Yes, that works.
this item is about
The High Speed Chase
(it is not so long a read as it looks)
the scene of the crime as it was on Saturday morning two days after Hurricane Katrina damaged Miami's trees.
http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/6028/screenshot0022qj.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
snapped after it was all over
You see the truck and trailer belonging to the boss of a tree trimming crew outside my house about one hundred feet from my driveway.
I don't know them yet. They were unblocking a neighbor's driveway of a fallen oak tree.
I left my driveway in the Yellow Peril (you'll understand the temporary nickname in a moment).
Cars go down the street very slowly owing to the debris and for sightseeing.
Ahead of my RS2 a dark red Caravan with blacked out rear window slowed and stopped momentarily at the tailgate of the pickup truck.
I was about one hundred feet behind the Caravan.
Look! A long, dark arm reaches out from the drivers side of the Caravan.
It lifts a chainsaw from the tailgate of the pickup truck and drives on.
For only a moment I presumed not much, because a man standing on the shoulder just past that trailer was gesturing to the Caravan driver.
9It turns out that it was a neighbor of ours who was protesting an apparent theft.
I read the neighbor's body language from a didstance, and was...
...AFTER THE THIEF IN A HURRY PEDAL TO THE FLOOR AS THAT ZZZZZZOOMING
CARAVAN RACED UP THE LIMB-CONGESTED STREET to the first available right turn
where he slid around a muddy corner.
Yellow Peril was on his tail, though!BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP sounding continuously.
All of the ponies in the xB's engine pulled to close us down on the scoundrel's tail.
Down single-laned Braganza, the red car raced, running a stop sign.
I chanced it and ran the stop, too. Trucks were blocking the cross street anyway.
At the end of Braganza the roadway doglegs hard, 90 degrees of one lane width.
The thief hurried too much, skidded to a stop, missing the turn and nearly sliding into a wooden fence gate. He would have to back up...
I halted my car about thirty feet behind. Nothing was happening now.
I yelled very loud and deep voiced to the invisible occupant(s) of the red Caravan ahead: "DROP THE SAW".
No response. Thirty seconds passed. Still no response.
Maybe the engine was stalled. I sat still with the automatic transmission set in reverse gear in case someone jumped out of the red car with, say, a handgun.
The Caravan next backs a few feet, turns the ninety degrees, and races full throttle up Kiora.
Off again now in hot pursuit. The thief takes the very next corner and runs about hundred feet up that small avenue, with me blaring the horn and keeping forty feet back now. He stops dead. Nothing more.
I shout again VERY LOUD
PUT DOWN THE SAW. DROP IT GENTLY ONTO THE GRASS AND JUST GO. PUT THE EFFING SAW DOWN NOW
Fifteen seconds elapse without motion
Next thing to happen: the passenger side window rolls down.
A long, dark arm holding the chainsaw in hand makes a conspicuous show of gently dropping the chainsaw onto the grassy swale.
The thief's Caravan rolls away like its on a sunday drive.
I pull forward, retrieve the saw and put it in the back of my car.
A family cleaning their front yard about a hunded feet further up witnessed this strange and noisy spectacle. As I told them the story, up comes...
The pickup truck from above, with the owner of the chainsaw with his female partner. She says:
"We didn't even know they stole our saw! Your neighbor told us what happened. He said to 'find the yellow car and you'll find out what happened to your saw'. So! He got away! Did you get his tag number? Did you see his face?
I reply: No, I did not. And I did not get his tag number cos I was too engaged to memorize the tag. What good would that number do, anyway? .
"So he got away."
Yes, I let him go.
"Why?"
Well, hop out of the truck and open the side door and have a look.
"Wow! Oh, thank you!"
===
----you all will understand that a chainsaw after a hurricane has tremendous monetary value,
even if it -was- only hundred buck Homelite cheapie----
A half hour later I went back to the scene of the crime. She, the EZ Palm partner, took this picture.
EZPalms will be glad to verify that I'm not making this episode up
with her son, Orlando
http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/1807/screenshot0152vx.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
It was not a happy moment for her:
She'd just gotten gasoline at the station behind the beer truck, behind the car.
It was very hard to buy gasoline on Saturday in Miami. She was elated to have fuel
but depressed to be involved in a minor accident. See, on the way out of the station someone scraped a bumper...
We had to wait for the police to arrive to make out an accident report.
more?
Tomas
08-30-2005, 08:27 AM
You're crazy, Reid. :) You shouldn't be chasing folks like that (I might do it, but then again I carry enough firepower to either start or stop a small war...)
----
Pretty lady. Her son, you say? Do tell. :)
SciFly
08-30-2005, 12:20 PM
Thank you Tom. Yes, I am bold and so are you.
BTW I'm gonna trim down the story about the chase; it's too long.
----
OK! this item is more. This item is dedicated to
Bahamamut who inspired me on page two where he said in passing
I love your box
Ah, then you all understand how ____ed we should get when our boxes gets a scrape.
Danged beauty! How could I be angry at -her- ? Just look at that face.
Look at her son's angelic expression. These people are....disarming!
:rofl: Get it all straight now? I went out looking for gasoline for the generator.
There was no place to park at the gas station so I parked across the street
at the bus turnout lane.
Pictures do not do her justice. She's so pretty that men melt in her presence.
She's kindly, too.
I set this story up as a humor item but the fact is this:
When we are bold and helpful to strangers wonderful dividends accrue.
I do not know why this is so, but it's true. The real message and the real point of this posting:
to be good and cheerful to deserving strangers while keeping alert
for the few bad guys out there.
Saturday was an interesting day.
Extreme examples of ugly and gorgeous played their scenes in the span of a single morning and afternoon.
By great coincidence I ran first onto the scene of a petty theft
and then later on, encounterd a rare RS2 (not mine) that got into a scrape.
Am amazed every day I live.
Bgnome
08-30-2005, 12:58 PM
i dont get it..
she scraped your bumper?
SciFly
08-30-2005, 01:02 PM
:doh: nope!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
=The lady's RS2 got scraped by some other car at the crowded gas station.
She was waiting for the cops to come to make out the accident report.
I kept them company for a while and took pictures.
I'll tell her son to look into this thread.
I guess if my mom looked like her I'd walk around every day with his expression too! :clap:
Placebo
08-30-2005, 01:15 PM
:doh: nope!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
=The lady's RS2 got scraped by some other car at the crowded gas station.
She was waiting for the cops to come to make out the accident report.
I kept them company for a while and took pictures.
I'll tell her son to look into this thread.
I guess if my mom looked like her I'd walk around with his expression all day long too! :P
Well why didnt you say that in the first place :silly:. I got the story by reading one line. Will her car get fixed?
Lonely_Raven
08-30-2005, 01:17 PM
Great Stories Reid!
I'm really sorry I missed this thread earlier!! But I was
offline most of the weekend.
I'm *so* very glad you keep that camera with you.
You tell stories so well with your images, the words are just
icing!
Thanks for sharing, and I hope things get worked out in your
neck of the (fallen) woods!
SciFly
08-30-2005, 01:30 PM
There's more..... but
People say rightly enough that I talk toooooo much!
:P
Why! Even in Coral Gables the stricken residents put up signs of warning
that there is no way out when I'm around :rofl:
I will intro you to a very good Tree Trimming Comany next.
They are TREE KING based up in Delray Beach, Fl.
Like many other out of town services, they came down with their crew to help
clean up the mess.
Tree King is a good company. I'll post their business card here when I find it.
Highly recommended. Very reasonable prices and really good guys. I'll show off some
snapshots of the crew.
('shacking some photos right now)
matt_a
08-30-2005, 01:39 PM
That's really cool the way you got that guy's chainsaw back for him! :clap:
You're lucky the theives didn't jump out of the van with it and cut your xB in half!
SciFly
08-30-2005, 01:42 PM
yep. it was a risk.
So was I, though, to THEM
heh.
SciFly
08-30-2005, 01:45 PM
TREE KING crew pictures. Sunday afternoon.
hot and hard working guys need drinks. I made a run to Circle K to keep 'em happy
http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/6307/screenshot0213zu.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
I tell you ! he works so hard that he exhales steam in August heat
http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/613/screenshot0229rq.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
he has two nicknames: "Amigo" or "Smiley". He does not speak English
His smile tells of his good character. Amigo is a hard-working Mexican immigrant
http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/2111/screenshot0235ox.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Mutual respect between the crew members? You gotta be kidding!
PS: George on the left is a tree climber in training. He loves to be photographed.
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/5149/screenshot0247mz.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
George is American of Hispanic background.
We tried but could not get a single BAD picture of this guy.
Here are two pics from some quick poses he must keep in stock.
he oughta go into modeling chainsaw advertisements... or something :lalala:
http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/6370/screenshot0259wq.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/9923/screenshot0274ag.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
========
thank you for helping out in Miami TREE KING and crew.
*joke*
George, you can put on your shirt now.
matt_a
08-30-2005, 02:22 PM
ooookay.
Marshall
08-30-2005, 02:27 PM
I understand, this is what happened to me last year after Hurricane Jeane hit me. Water came through the ridge vent and saturated the drywall in my ceiling. The panels and insulation fell through, it was a total mess. I just bought the house 1 week prior.
After:
I installed hard wood floors.
http://www.geocities.com/ebayjonathan/diningroom.JPG
I laid down porcelin tile.
http://www.geocities.com/ebayjonathan/livingroom.JPG
SciFly
08-30-2005, 02:42 PM
wow! sorry about that.
New homes are made with drywall instead of plaster on lathe (which isn't so much better at resisting water, worse, really)
If they would use MR drywall I guess we would not have these messes. I don't suppose any builder or homeowner would ever expect such a thing as to lose a roof, though!
Placebo
08-30-2005, 04:13 PM
I bet ur going to keep those pics of george in ur "private" collection :P
komik
08-30-2005, 05:49 PM
If I ever return to New Orleans, I'll post pictures of whats left of my stuff. I'm in Longview Texas right now. We drove out here in the company van. All the cars in my sig were parked on the median in front of my house when we left. A few of my relatives and friends are still in the city. They have water but no electricity. The streets around my brother's house are not flooded, but there's nowhere to go anyway. We won't be able to get back in the city for at least a month. Interstate 10 is heavily damaged on both sides of the city. We're going to start looking for jobs out here.
matt_a
08-30-2005, 06:03 PM
Glad you made it out safe!
Marshall
08-30-2005, 06:05 PM
If I ever return to New Orleans, I'll post pictures of whats left of my stuff. I'm in Longview Texas right now. We drove out here in the company van. All the cars in my sig were parked on the median in front of my house when we left. A few of my relatives and friends are still in the city. They have water but no electricity. The streets around my brother's house are not flooded, but there's nowhere to go anyway. We won't be able to get back in the city for at least a month. Interstate 10 is heavily damaged on both sides of the city. We're going to start looking for jobs out here.
I would be careful to not drink the city water for a while, without boiling it somehow.
My electricity was out for a week, and at that time I didn;t have a generator. Trying to sleep at night while it was hot, no electric, windows wide open and you could hear all the generators running loudly in the neighborhood. It was a miserable week, but hey.. a lot more other people had it a lot worse. My heart goes out to them...
Lonely_Raven
08-30-2005, 06:17 PM
I bet ur going to keep those pics of george in ur "private" collection :P
Yeah, that part of this thread took a turn for the ___ side of things. LOL
Placebo
08-30-2005, 08:33 PM
glad to see ur safe komik! :clap:
I think those people who stayed are dumb because now they are stuck on their roof top hoping to be rescued, some people who are not flooded are stranded, and the super dome is flooded with 10k people in it and almost no roof.
SciFly
08-30-2005, 10:41 PM
I bet ur going to keep those pics of george in ur "private" collection :P
Yeah, that part of this thread took a turn for the ___ side of things. LOL
:ttth:
well, that isn't him or any of them but it could be
me
:loser:
:rofl: IF any of you have great pics of good looking female tree trimmers post the photos up.
Now back to New Orleans.....
SciFly
08-30-2005, 10:44 PM
If I ever return to New Orleans, I'll post pictures of whats left of my stuff. I'm in Longview Texas right now.
We drove out here in the company van. All the cars in my sig were parked on the median in front of my house when we left.
A few of my relatives and friends are still in the city. They have water but no electricity.
The streets around my brother's house are not flooded, but there's nowhere to go anyway. We won't be able to get back in the city for at least a month.
Interstate 10 is heavily damaged on both sides of the city.
We're going to start looking for jobs out here.
Quoted in bold to bring this up fresh.
Serious now, am sorry to hear this, but am glad you are reporting real time to Scion Life.
Gives us a feeling of knowing more what it is like in New Orleans right now.
Best wishes to you Komik. Please update as much as you can.
take care,
reid
SciFly
08-30-2005, 10:48 PM
I want to thank this crew from Texas that restored our power yesterday afternoon.
These men are based in Houston. They are courteous and efficient and they,
like many other utility linemen, have given up the comforts of home and family to
help out people living far away while working in adverse conditions.
Look for them in New Orleans next. Good guys.
I tell the various people pictured on these pages to check out this thread at Scion Life for their souvenir portraits from Miami. They'll see this thread, showing in its small way, that their will-do efforts are appreciated.
http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/6084/screenshot0338jr.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Placebo
09-01-2005, 08:40 PM
After watching the news for the past four days I am wondering why the hell didnt they have a plan. Its not like it was a suprise but yet thousands are sleeping on the street and dying with no help in site. The media is interviewing stranded people and leaving them there wtf is up with that. I just dont get why its taking so long if something happened in another country we would be there in a nano second.
Lonely_Raven
09-01-2005, 08:45 PM
I bet ur going to keep those pics of george in ur "private" collection :P
Yeah, that part of this thread took a turn for the ___ side of things. LOL
:ttth:
well, that isn't him or any of them but it could be
me
:loser:
:rofl: IF any of you have great pics of good looking female tree trimmers post the photos up.
Now back to New Orleans.....
Really confused by the him and them thing....
As for the female tree trimmers...hmm....sweaty female with power tools...hmmmmm
I think this is an excellent premise for video. :love:
SciFly
09-02-2005, 04:18 PM
-This is unneeded diversion from the real topic: New Orleans-
However, life goes on. Perhaps entertainment helps lighten the burden of tragedy?
The camera did make a 6mb video of mom and son... a sort of interview.
It's a funny clip. And she's soooooo sweet .
I could make a verse for her, placing the son as the narrator. We work from the photographic clues:
Mami, you're so super fine.
You gave me such a perfect life.
I am nearly now full grown now.
But why is it I have this look?
Because, my Mami-super-fine,
From your toes grows fruiting vine.
From toes to lips you're cherry wine.
I am the son who drinks your heart.
You are the mom who gave me mine.
pls. keep alive to good things and other people
SciFly
09-10-2005, 03:10 AM
Day before yesterday the Delray Beach crew of Tree King was working in this Miami neighborhood. One of them knocked on my door- the shirtless Mark here below.
"You got those pictures of George and me you made a when we were last here?"
see the previous page
Yeah, I made your prints but I tell you it's going to embarass George... well, you'll see.
So I made a funny show of razzing George but really- I told them the obvious fun thing: that George oughta be into latin-market clothing-modeling.
even for those alternative kinds of still shoots, solo I mean.
George was all smiles at his photogenic-ness which was a revelation to him.
"Hell YEAH I'd do that for money, hell, yes!" And his equally young friend, the one on the right in this shot, he chimes for his chance "Yeah! I'd do it for money you bet!"
These guys work so hard for so little money for days without a break now, that it must seem like a fantasy to get paid for -not working-.
And it probably is...yet, George on the previous page does have a camera charisma that goes past otherwise common, sultry looks
The anglo youth on the left thought -also- thought all this is all a grand idea. .... but it's all for me now, they opened themselves up for a real portrait, hoping I guess to get something as good as George's portraits.
They succeed even better, by not posing.
I post this picture because it says something good about our human needs for attention; for someone to say from out of the blue: "Hey, you guys are interesting enough to make a character study-
So they are, they are. And that's all this is: Two youths, and one more, past that age of first innocence and immortal immunity.
They've not been soured, not yet, and this is why I like them.
http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/2039/screenshot0128ay.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
my kick: knowing the guys will see this thread
Flecs
12-05-2005, 05:57 AM
As for the female tree trimmers...hmm....sweaty female with power tools...hmmmmm
go down to videos and click on the bold "satisfaction"
komik
12-05-2005, 07:52 PM
I forgot abouth this thread. Here are some of the pictures I took:
The front of my house:
http://www.xomixx.com/archive/sl/katrina2.jpg
My burglarized tC:
http://www.xomixx.com/archive/sl/katrina3.jpg
My office a few blocks away:
http://www.xomixx.com/archive/sl/katrina4.jpg
My Cars: (Photo taken via aircraft on 9/6/05, one week after the storm)
http://www.xomixx.com/archive/sl/tcwater.jpg
My other car:
http://www.xomixx.com/archive/sl/wideshot.jpg
I didn't get many pics of the inside of the house. I took a video of the it and then my camera's battery got too low.
atodak
01-24-2006, 05:52 PM
LIAR, LIAR: The NY Times reports the White House was informed of Hurricane Katrina's potential damage hours before the storm hit. On TV, President Bush said they hadn't anticipated Katrina, but documents dated August 29th predicted "any Hurricane category 4 or better will likely lead to severe flooding."