Hi Dallas,   
      
   On Tue 2039-Jun-21 15:43, Dallas Hinton (1:153/715) wrote to Richard Webb:   
      
   RW> NOpe, he told 'em to bill his credit card if that ran out   
   RW> before I'd been able to make contact.  I made contact that   
   RW> MOnday morning next, (was SAturday when I learned of all   
   RW> this) and arranged for her to have her booster vaccinations   
   RW> too.  Those were supposed to be taken care of the day   
   RW> Katrina hit.   
      
   DH> Still very nice of him!   
      
   YOu bet!  HIs last name was King.  We sent him a picture of   
   the dog, with some stylized paw prints below text which said "your last name   
   may be king but you were my knight in   
   shining armor."   
      
   BOth the dog and the individual are gone now.   
      
   RW> YEp, and that's why dog was chained outside, instead of in.   
   DH> [...]   
   RW> falling on the place and crushing it would have got her   
   RW> anyway.   
      
   DH> Amazing how things fall into place!   
      
   YEp, I had a slight argument with my lady over that one, she argued there was   
   nothing a mop and some degergent wouldn't   
   cure, no carpets inside.  I won that round, I remember   
   standing at her pointing at two of our neighbors saying   
   "look at his house, look at the stilts!"  Other words not   
   fit for polite radio or echomail went in there somewhere too .  WHat   
   finally won that round for me was my old cajun   
   buddy said the same thing I did, outside was safer.   
      
      
   RW> Thing is, the sound reinforcement system would have survived if I'd   
   DH> [...]   
   RW> fellowship hall door.   
      
   DH> and hindsight is 20/20, even for you! :-)   
      
   YOu bet it is!  but, we were renting out the place to a   
   private school, and the church wanted them to provide   
   anything they needed, including sr, so they asked me to take my system out of   
   there at first opportunity.  IT just so   
   happened that the buddy of mine i was going to draft to help do that was off   
   work that afternoon, and we spoke on the ham radio after I left my meeting   
   downtown.  Had he been out on   
   the road driving the big rig it would have remained at the   
   church until it was all over .  Had I even left it in the van the next day   
   when we packed up to head into the hospital for the storm it would have   
   survived on the 5th level of the parking garage, but I removed it to optimize   
   room for backup equipment I wanted to have in the hospital's radio room.   
   We'd just gotten the hf transceiver back from a warranty   
   repair as it lost its final rf amplifier stage, and that   
   made me leery so I wanted to bring my hf station in as a   
   backup.   
      
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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