On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:10:33 GMT, (Roy) wrote:

I rode out Fredrick. We had come back to town and they said thiengs
were fine, (sunday evening) next day they say its heading north again,
then it should not be a problem, then not a problem, then a
problem,,and so on and the next thing its dab smack south of the house
and coming full bore. I raced from where we live now down to the
house in Perdido, with a trailer load of plywood etc to board up the
front porch windows etc as it was a wall of glass 65 feet long that
looked directly out over the bay into the gulf without a dune or tree
anywhere to break any wind (not that it would have mattered much) as
well as food and some supplies and gas and a gen set. I figured until
we (brother and I) borded it up it may be safe to stay in the basement
portion (house sat on a high bluff, with three sides of its foundation
dug into the bank and formed a sort of lower level or
basement)......state troopers did not want to allow us back inthe
area, told them my wife was there and I would only be a few
minutes......so they let us pass. Never could get a thing boarded up
as winds were already up there, so we went in the house and hoped for
the best.......had to move from the upstairs to the lower level after
front porch and roof went, then the glass front, which allowed the
wind to work on the main roof, which it eventually took off and we
only ever found a small portion of it, things soon got bad donwstairs
with water running in everywhere, and then a tree came down, and
through the upstairs floor as well, so we bailed and rode it out in my
K5 Blazer, which was a rocking and a rolling in that
wind..........mighty strange and erie feeling out in the middle of
nowhere back then, dark as can be except for lightning, no phone,
nothing...........and then come sun rise not a sound could be heard
anywhere not even a bird, and the guld was like a mirrow, without a
ripple in it......

Amazing story, Roy! Wow. ~ jan

That is really true after a hurricane, everything is erie quiet and
if you notice the night sky and the stars are brilliant. From there
being no electricity for miles and miles in every direction, so no light
pollution.



Roy wrote:

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:17:18 -0500, RicSeyler
wrote:





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Ric Seyler

Yep, I neglected to mention how bright the sun was the next morning,
not a cloud or haze from any dust, just bright brilliant blue and the
nights just setting there without power for over 2 weeks was awesome.
YOu do not realize how bright those stars etc really are, espeically
when your used to seeing lights from other houses and along the water
fronts illuminated.........even the normal night time traffin out on
the bays and gulf was reduced, and the nav lights from those that were
out could easily be seen from shore.


I have a question for you on the Chulamar..On Cptn Bubbas webite he
has the boat being made in 1995.........The Chulamar I am familiar
with was already in the water in the mid to late 60's and it was in
the mid to late 70's early 80's I used to be on it myself. The boat
looks like the one i was on in every way right down to big, and slow
and wide, so I am wondering if it wa actually refurded in 1995 or an
entirely new Chulamar was built, but I wonder where the old original
went?

I have emailed Bubba a few times but emails seem to bounce since I am
not on his list of approved email recipients, at least thats the
reply I get back from an auto responder.

On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:58:52 -0500, RicSeyler
wrote:

===That is really true after a hurricane, everything is erie quiet and
===if you notice the night sky and the stars are brilliant. From there
===being no electricity for miles and miles in every direction, so no light
===pollution.
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Put some color in your cheeks...garden naked!
"The original frugal ponder"
~~~~ }((((o ~~~~~~ }{{{{o ~~~~~~~ }(((((o

No the 70' Chulamar was gotta be built in the 60's :-), Bubba also
bought a 24' Katelyn
maybe that's what the web site is referring to by mistake.

Roy wrote:

Yep, I neglected to mention how bright the sun was the next morning,
not a cloud or haze from any dust, just bright brilliant blue and the
nights just setting there without power for over 2 weeks was awesome.
YOu do not realize how bright those stars etc really are, espeically
when your used to seeing lights from other houses and along the water
fronts illuminated.........even the normal night time traffin out on
the bays and gulf was reduced, and the nav lights from those that were
out could easily be seen from shore.


I have a question for you on the Chulamar..On Cptn Bubbas webite he
has the boat being made in 1995.........The Chulamar I am familiar
with was already in the water in the mid to late 60's and it was in
the mid to late 70's early 80's I used to be on it myself. The boat
looks like the one i was on in every way right down to big, and slow
and wide, so I am wondering if it wa actually refurded in 1995 or an
entirely new Chulamar was built, but I wonder where the old original
went?

I have emailed Bubba a few times but emails seem to bounce since I am
not on his list of approved email recipients, at least thats the
reply I get back from an auto responder.

On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:58:52 -0500, RicSeyler
wrote:



===That is really true after a hurricane, everything is erie quiet and
===if you notice the night sky and the stars are brilliant. From there
===being no electricity for miles and miles in every direction, so no light
===pollution.
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===Roy wrote:
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===On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:17:18 -0500, RicSeyler
===wrote:
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Put some color in your cheeks...garden naked!
"The original frugal ponder"
~~~~ }((((o ~~~~~~ }{{{{o ~~~~~~~ }(((((o

Arrgh, Dennis looks like he's gonna hit us head on...


RicSeyler wrote:

No the 70' Chulamar was gotta be built in the 60's :-), Bubba also
bought a 24' Katelyn
maybe that's what the web site is referring to by mistake.



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Ric Seyler