[Moo] Storm damage update from Sudentorre

Tue May 13 06:45:59 PDT 2008

Glad to hear everyone down south is safe and sound. We fought the flood at our place Monday night. Our storm drain, in the back yard, clogged up and the water started to flow onto the deck and into the house. The girls and I caught it in time. Using a hose for a snake we unclogged the drain and pushed all the water away from the house. We must install a larger drain pipe!!

Dale Blvd. is closed near us due to a small side stream overflowing and washing out the road. It causes only a minor detour for us.

The girls and I leave tomorrow for the western desert lands (Bishop CA) so we will see everyone in June. We are looking forward to warm, dry desert weather.

Johanna Peace and Love,  Jane  The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the very most you can do is to live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. -- Barbara Kingsolver

From: TheWolfhou at aol.comDate: Tue, 13 May 2008 09:20:29 -0400To: watchtower at sudentorre.atlantia.sca.org; moo at stierbach.orgSubject: [Moo] Storm damage update from Sudentorre

Greetings all,

The F2 Tornado that touched down in south central Stafford did affect some of our folks, but word I have is that they are putting things back together. There were high winds in Orange and Spotsylvannia Co that did some tree damage and power outages (Lake of the Woods, Spotsylvannia County and east into Fredericksburg) The tornado touched down beside Cornerstone Baptist Church (on south side of Rt 17, east of Geico and Celebrate VA), took out a corner of a roof of Fed Ex?, blasted The Greens apartments, whipped around many of the single family homes on Limestone, Cavern, Brushy Creek, Foggy Field, Maggie, and some of the nearby streets. It then crossed Truslow Rd and took out a barn, some roof parts, and lots of trees on a cross county blow across Wallace Farms, Prim, and Hulls Chapel toward the Stafford Airport. We were very lucky that the tornado did not sit down on the ground and run, but that it skipped about up and down. Northern Stafford in a line from the County Airport up just west of I-95 had winds and strong rain, but not a tornado. The continued rain over the weekend and monday has hampered cleanup, and caused flooding. Hopefully the sun forcasted for tues and wed will give folks breathing space.

Sir Cean and Vicountess Catherine (new from Texas) were the most affected. Their rented house is not livable at this time. Their landlord should be starting repairs on the roof. I hear they have some water damage and insulation blown on stuff.  They are staying with Sir Richard and his family. As we know, their "getting back to normal" will be awhile, so look out for any way you can help them (ie packing, moving, unpacking, cleaning, a day out, dinner brought in, a friendly how are you doing by phone or email, directions of where something is...)

Lord Jasper and Lady Helena (Penny) are in the process of moving from their apartment in Fredericksburg to one in The Greens. They are both fine, as is their apartment and their car. But ask Jasper about watching the wind dismember the trees out front before he whisked back in to safety.

Lord Achmed and Lady Rowen are having flooding in thier basement again. I think our Lord Ranolph will be looking at it (it is good to have friends in the waterproofing business!) (I have 2 pumps in my garage)

Baron Flaithri and Baroness Rhonwen got electricity back monday, and their plumbing should be repressurized and back in full usage by tuesday afternoon. The flooding in thier back yard is down to ankle deep, and the house stayed dry.

I was on duty at Brooke Fire and Rescue that thursday evening, and eventually ended up at the tornado incident command post imputing and updating damage assesments into a computer until friday evening.Then I slept. My firehouse is located in a hollow, so it was flooded on monday with 2 feet of water through the bays, bunk rooms, and offices. I will be up there this afternoon to help with the cleanup...

(Adrianna, the tornado was on the west side of Gayle MS, and your old place was on the east, and thereby, the friends you recommended are probably OK. There was not reported damage to the apartment complexes off of Panther)

I hope this is a helpful update. Keep a watch on how we can help others in our "family", because together we will stand!
--Blitha

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