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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is one you can skip, but I thought some of you
might like to read a firsthand accounting from my brother who was on
the rim of the storm and didn't have to evacuate. They live 15 miles north
of Huntsville, Texas, not all that far from Houston. They play bluegrass
music. Perform at the Texas Folklife Festival every year. They are
really pretty good. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=geneyoung@gmail.com href="mailto:geneyoung@gmail.com">Gene Young</A>
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<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=suehovey@moscow.com
href="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com">Sue Hovey</A> ; <A
title=lyleoyoung@hotmail.com href="mailto:lyleoyoung@hotmail.com">Lyle Young</A>
; <A title=mnellyoung@gmail.com href="mailto:mnellyoung@gmail.com">marynell
young</A> ; <A title=owencyoung@gmail.com
href="mailto:owencyoung@gmail.com">Owen Young</A> ; <A
title=rachelyoung@austin.rr.com href="mailto:rachelyoung@austin.rr.com">Rachel
Lester</A> ; <A title=jennyeyoung@yahoo.com
href="mailto:jennyeyoung@yahoo.com">Jenny Young</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:56 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: IKE</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Just to update everyone, it's Tuesday morning, and Marynell and I
are fine. We got power back last night. (No matter what anyone might
say to the contrary, electricity is a good thing.) When I talked to Sue
and Jenny on the phone on Saturday, I was a little premature with the "all's
clear." We were revisited by strong winds and heavy rain later that day;
however, we still didn't have any appreciable damage. Not so for
Huntsville town. The winds were still hurricane force when Ike got this
far north. The people in town got hit much harder than we did (with trees
down everywhere, just about universal power outages, and limited gas and
food--even a couple of fatalities). We are fifteen miles north and about 5
miles west, and I guess that was enough to put us appreciably out of harm's
way. In Huntsville, there was an isolated area north of town that never
lost power, even in the height of the storm. It consists of a Pilot
gasoline station, a Mexican restaurant, and a liquor store. When I drove
by there on Sunday, there were long lines at each. Kind of funny, despite
all the trouble going on.<BR><BR>As most of you probably know, Ike contined to
cause damage well beyond Texas. Stephen's daughters lost power at their
house in Cincinnati (where there were hurricane force winds). A friend of
ours drove all the way from Houston to stay with relatives in Arkansas, only to
lose power there to 80 mph winds. They still don't have power.
<BR><BR>Marynell's school didn't miss even one day, but Sam Houston is going to
be closed until next Monday (the 22nd). It's a nice vacation, but not a
good way to get one.<BR><BR>Anyway, we're fine compared with Huntsville and
certainly compared with Houston and parts south and east of there. (There
are really sobering pictures of the Bolivar Peninsula, east of Galveston, where
the surge was the worst. In the hardest-hit parts there, all that is left
are pilings and pavement. Not any other sign that anything was built there
at all.)<BR><BR>Tonight, Marynell and I are going in to one of the evacuee
centers in town to play music for the people there. Maybe that will help
take their minds off of what awaits them when they get home. We're really
lucky. (Our cows don't seem to have realized that there was even anything
unusual. Cows aren't all that smart, but at least they don't seem to have
that much to worry about.)<BR><BR>Gene<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Sue Hovey <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com">suehovey@moscow.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I talked with Gene this morning and they are fine--as
you probably know, too, but without power. Actually we didn't discuss
the storm much but spent quite a bit of time on Sarah Palin and her foreign
policy expertise. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Norm told him he ought to move up here but Gene feels a
hurricane or two every decade is preferable to 100 inches of snow every
year. Hummmm he could have something there.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Sue </FONT></DIV></FONT>
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