Been a while...sorry (typical blog or web site...fast start...gets slow...then you post a "Been a while...sorry" post)...but let's see...Hurricane Isabel was a weak-knee'd has-been storm by the time it got to us...but it was hell-on-wheels for my father-in-laws house down in Gloucester VA:
1) Dock is gone
2) Boathouse/Cabana Shack is gone
3) Seawall is gone
4) Part of front yard is gone
5) Tree hit house; Chimney knocked over, two separate roofs displaced a few inches, several walls buckled
6) Water damage inside
7) Dozens of trees felled on property
Might do the FEMA thing...but I'll know more tonight. My father-in-law was in London during the storm (was a good thing) and he returns tonight. I'll probably take a few days off this week and head down there as part of the clean-up effort (parts of the dock, a refrigerator, several large other things and tons of debris are in his front yard). My guess is that parts of the house (or maybe the entire house) will be condemned and will require massive rebuilding...it's sad but the good news is that nobody was hurt and there's always a silver lining to everything...the house is very, very, old and perhaps this will give him the leeway to modern up some things around the house.
Son John had to evacuate ODU and he ended up at JMU (can you say Party-Town?) durin ghre hurricane. On his way back to ODU a few days ago he stopped off and reported the damage back to me. Fortuately my father-in-law has many friends and several were already there clearing debris and getting things squared away.
Here's a article on flooding in Gloucester
Neither my dad nor several siblings in North Carolina had any trouble with the storm and it wasn't even enough here to cause my DirecTV to go off-line (take that all you cable guys with power failures). I live in a community where all the power lines are underground and we didn't have a single outage.
As to my other hobby...PC Gaming...I've been working on another map for Day of Defeat...take a gander at these shots:
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Click Pic 2
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1) Dock is gone
2) Boathouse/Cabana Shack is gone
3) Seawall is gone
4) Part of front yard is gone
5) Tree hit house; Chimney knocked over, two separate roofs displaced a few inches, several walls buckled
6) Water damage inside
7) Dozens of trees felled on property
Might do the FEMA thing...but I'll know more tonight. My father-in-law was in London during the storm (was a good thing) and he returns tonight. I'll probably take a few days off this week and head down there as part of the clean-up effort (parts of the dock, a refrigerator, several large other things and tons of debris are in his front yard). My guess is that parts of the house (or maybe the entire house) will be condemned and will require massive rebuilding...it's sad but the good news is that nobody was hurt and there's always a silver lining to everything...the house is very, very, old and perhaps this will give him the leeway to modern up some things around the house.
Son John had to evacuate ODU and he ended up at JMU (can you say Party-Town?) durin ghre hurricane. On his way back to ODU a few days ago he stopped off and reported the damage back to me. Fortuately my father-in-law has many friends and several were already there clearing debris and getting things squared away.
Here's a article on flooding in Gloucester
Neither my dad nor several siblings in North Carolina had any trouble with the storm and it wasn't even enough here to cause my DirecTV to go off-line (take that all you cable guys with power failures). I live in a community where all the power lines are underground and we didn't have a single outage.
As to my other hobby...PC Gaming...I've been working on another map for Day of Defeat...take a gander at these shots:
Click Pic 1
Click Pic 2
Click Pic 3
