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24th June 2008, 04:39 AM #1
Tornado Alley finally got me some free wood.
Well... after all the weather we've had here, the tornado finally came close enough to cause me some problems. Some firefighters got pics of it on the ground North of town, but it must have sucked back into the cloud before it passed through town. But the hail was between 1" dia and 2.5", and was a foot deep on my front porch.
Took out three windows on the N and E side of my house, lost two airconditioners...pulverized our travel trailer, even though it was in a carport.... golf-ball sized hail got me in the forehead while standing in my living room... horizontally, through the window. Lifted the tin on the roof of my shop in a couple of places, and rained on my lathe... rust began immediately on the latheways.
Took a few days to get the electricity and phone lines back in.
But.... something good came of it. I got a Walnut tree from in front of the sheriff's office at the courthouse. The inside of it looks exactly like the almond tree pictures that RBTCO posted. I'll try to get some pics posted of it later.
Ahhh... it's good to be alive in Childress, TX.!!!!Al
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24th June 2008, 07:34 AM #2
Glad you made it through relatively unscathed!
Good score with the tree! Every cloud has a silver lining as they say.The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
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24th June 2008, 08:44 AM #3
Glad to here you are ok but getting hit in the head with a golf ball size hail is not what I would think as fun. We get hail in Darwin every now and then but melts before it hits the ground.It is always good to get something good out of a disaster like free wood that you can turn and maybe do something nice like give it people that were effected really bad buy the tornado. were ever the turned items end up they will have a good story to tell. You must send pics
Cheers Rum Pig
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24th June 2008, 09:02 AM #4
Sounds like you're lucky you've still got a house!!! Good to know you came through OK.
??? Will they insure you guy's living in those tornado prone areas???
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24th June 2008, 09:21 AM #5
Glad all is well with yourself
Hope the Sheriff doesn't mind the sound of chainsaws
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24th June 2008, 02:18 PM #6Skwair2rownd
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Tornado Alley
Bad luck in one way Ogyt but from what we see on tele over here you are also extremely luck.
Hope it doesn't take too long or cost too much to get back to square one.
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24th June 2008, 06:23 PM #7
Hope you get your gear fixed quickly. And you get get lathe fixed
bye Toni
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24th June 2008, 07:49 PM #8Ahhh... it's good to be alive in Childress, TX.!!!!
the emphasis being "alive"
Its ill wind that blows nobody any goodInspiration exists, but it has to find you working. — Pablo Picasso
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24th June 2008, 07:56 PM #9
G'Day Al
Sorry to hear of the damage caused, but glad to hear you came through ok.
Cheers
bernie
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24th June 2008, 09:08 PM #10Senior Member
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24th June 2008, 10:23 PM #11
Good to see your sense of humour came through in fine condition, Al. Best wishes.
JoeOf course truth is stranger than fiction.
Fiction has to make sense. - Mark Twain
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24th June 2008, 11:22 PM #12
Glad you got through more or less intact. And the wood is natures way of making it up to you.
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25th June 2008, 08:59 PM #13
Boy, you guys are really getting hammered over there Al. Floods, tornados, heat waves. You should come & spend some time in the lucky country, although come to think of it, we get all that stuff here too - including the golf ball sized (and bigger) hail stones. Hope the insurance policies are all OK.
Good score with the walnut though - don't get much of that here. What's the saying? "It's an ill wind that blows no-one any good" - or something like that.
Looking forward to the WIP and journal on the great walnut carve up.
WayneDon't Just Do It.... Do It HardenFast!!
Regards - Wayne
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27th June 2008, 12:37 PM #14
Thanks for the kind comments, Folks. I do appreciate them.
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TTIT, It costs too much for me to afford Insurance. So any damage comes out of my pocket… which is very shallow.
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Wheelin, and Gaz, I live just 15 miles NW of the location of that ‘supposed’ “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”. It’s just a tale… no truth to it. And the Sheriff is a good bloke, and lives just about 5 miles from that spot, too.
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Hughie and Wayne both hit the quote…
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Sorry for being out of pocket so much… pulled a muscle in my back while I was working on those window unit air conditioners, and finally went to the doctor this morning.
I will get some pics of that walnut and some of the turnings… but right now I’m under the influence of drugs, so I’d better get outa here.Al
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27th June 2008, 05:21 PM #15
Hey Al! Good to hear all is well (relatively speaking). Every cloud has a silver (or Walnut) lining, even tornado type clouds. Hope you quickly recover from your back injury.
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