Hi Dallas,

On Tue 2039-Jun-21 15:43, Dallas Hinton (1:153/715) wrote to Richard Webb:

RW> NOpe, he told 'em to bill his credit card if that ran out
RW> before I'd been able to make contact.  I made contact that
RW> MOnday morning next, (was SAturday when I learned of all
RW> this) and arranged for her to have her booster vaccinations
RW> too.  Those were supposed to be taken care of the day
RW> Katrina hit.

DH> Still very nice of him!

YOu bet!  HIs last name was King.  We sent him a picture of
the dog, with some stylized paw prints below text which said "your last name
may be king but you were my knight in
shining armor."

BOth the dog and the individual are gone now.

RW> YEp, and that's why dog was chained outside, instead of in.
DH> [...]
RW> falling on the place and crushing it would have got her
RW> anyway.

DH> Amazing how things fall into place!

YEp, I had a slight argument with my lady over that one, she argued there was
nothing a mop and some degergent wouldn't
cure, no carpets inside.  I won that round, I remember
standing at her pointing at two of our neighbors saying
"look at his house, look at the stilts!"  Other words not
fit for polite radio or echomail went in there somewhere too .  WHat
finally won that round for me was my old cajun
buddy said the same thing I did, outside was safer.


RW> Thing is, the sound reinforcement system would have survived if I'd
DH> [...]
RW> fellowship hall door.

DH> and hindsight is 20/20, even for you! :-)

YOu bet it is!  but, we were renting out the place to a
private school, and the church wanted them to provide
anything they needed, including sr, so they asked me to take my system out of
there at first opportunity.  IT just so
happened that the buddy of mine i was going to draft to help do that was off
work that afternoon, and we spoke on the ham radio after I left my meeting
downtown.  Had he been out on
the road driving the big rig it would have remained at the
church until it was all over .  Had I even left it in the van the next day
when we packed up to head into the hospital for the storm it would have
survived on the 5th level of the parking garage, but I removed it to optimize
room for backup equipment I wanted to have in the hospital's radio room.
We'd just gotten the hf transceiver back from a warranty
repair as it lost its final rf amplifier stage, and that
made me leery so I wanted to bring my hf station in as a
backup.



Regards,
           Richard
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