Has anyone Njoynit yet????

Weezie she hasn't read my PM don't know if she is ok or not a lot of east Texas still out of power. Most of Port Arthur and a lot of Beaumont still in the dark as is Lufkin where my step kids dad live.
Jimmy

Thinking of you Njoynit and praying you and your family are o.k.

Yeah, I sent her an email and nothing
yet either...

I'm prayin' too!!!

Prayers from MD for Njoynit....sure hope she's safe and sound.

Good news!
I just got a long email from njoynit's mom!

She said njoynit was fine, "Hurricane Rita came through with wind over 100 mph. Their house is fine"....

A few excerpts from the email......

..."They had 6 trees uprooted. Her power went out about 1:30 a.m. on Saturday. A lot of electric poles have been shattered and wires are dangling. They have been told that in about three weeks they will be out to their remote area to see what needs to be done to get power once again. They live in a remote area about seven miles from Woodville, Texas. They live in an area where there are a lot of trees. Some of her neighbors evacuated and there is a problem with looters coming in at night."

..."She brought 73 plants inside before the Hurricane to safety."

..."She had filled 73 jugs with water. They have a propane bottle for their kitchen of the fifth wheel so she can cook what she has to there on their property. They have to boil water of course. She brought the dogs and the ducks in the house the night of the Hurricane."
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She brought 73 plants, the dogs and the ducks inside!
njoynit ROCKS!


Cindy Faye

Weezie...
Check your GardenHelper email.

Cindy Loretta

That's GREAT NEWS!!!!!!!!!
I knew about the ducks!
I thought that was cute,
could be messy, but cute..
I had wondered about them hopin' they didn't get blown away~~~

wow that's great news! I'm glad to hear that she and her family and pets and plants are safe and sound! that's awsome that they even bought the ducks in! do they happen to have aflack insurance by chance??

oh I forgot...has anybody seen hisgal lately? I haven't seen her posting? have I missed something?

thank you so much cindy louise!

missjamie, hisgal is fine, talked to her today. just a little tummy trouble.

I just emailed Njoynit's mom....
Well, I feel a whole lot better..
Was really beginin' to wonder....

They sound pretty prepared...
and hopin' it won't be long till
they're back up and runnin'!!!!!!

Good one, MissJamie!
You definitely get extra points for that one!

Cindy Sue

How about COMBINED LIFE?????
That stuff awesome...

I have been waiting to see that she was ok. Thank God they made it through safely. Thanks for the update Cindy.

Yes, real good news, so glad Njoynit and family are all ok. Still sending more prayers out there for the ones who aren't so lucky.

Julianna

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I survived!!!!!

I'm on generator(at $15 a day which really sucks)they claim I'm looking at 6-8 weeks MINUMUM without power.I may STILL be without power come THANKSGIVEING.We lost 6 whole trees...parts of others we still have a cedar to cut thats leaning towards house.the branches on one side of it are blown up and broke& twisted.We are currently looking for a new 14 in chain for it(polar).had branches all over the yard.the tree that snapped by boat missed the boat,but leaft a scratch.the shed at that end end of yard shifted about 2 feet,but othrwie it stayed.the 5th wheel was fine and been cooking in it on prppane...least till the propane runs out cause ya ain't buying none in a 60 mile radiuos(((if JV hear of some in Lufkin...please hollar@ my mom and she'll call me.)))I know getting low...but am conserveing more now....i figured out I can run 2 pots of water in cofee maker for hot dishwater.Those food boxes with 3 meals I learned cvan set the cans in the sun for an hour and are hot to heat....TX-o-wave(LMAO)By day 4 I really wanted out of here bad.i was SICK of plugging-unplugging extension cords,but we now have the whole house hooked up to generator so life is almost normal....just no 220.
most my garden stuff got flattened,some leans.Brugs were fine...getting buds now(some of those blew off,but thats finethey are back )Totally lost some zinnas(well see them next spring all over the yard sprouting I imagine)of my 73 plant evacs.....one potos ivy got snapped and is rooting as we speak& my yellow crown of throns has a new direction of growth....sideways& is blooming.
hubby dragged tree limbs fromm yard....and dragged up phone line.but we ran our tempoary line being SBC said Oct 11th.now they just need to run me another land line and bury it at their convience.we got i know 7 inches of rain.rain gage goes that far.Fire chief said we had some gusts of 145 MPH& it really looks it.it looked like the trees were dusting the skys.I'm gonna send weezie some video.the earlier shot ones don't show anything...but ya can hear the wind.all hell broke loose about 5 something...the wind was howling& the floor of the house was shakeing(its built on 4x4 post 4 feet in concrete...we will have bottom closed in by next hurricane season....and more extension cords)

OH NJOYNIT!! I a sooooo glad to hear from you!! I'm glad ya'll made it thru ok, even tho you're in back up power. Hopefully, it won't take as long as they are saying. Keeping a thought for you.

Meg

Well I didn't send that....but it sure went.

Took FEMA 6 days to get a generator for our well.is one gas station in town open on generator(woodville no power either,but they are ENTERGY not SAM HOUSTON) they have a $40 limit on gas.Brookshires has a makeshift grocery set up in carts cash only in parking lot they will go in store for anything you need of they have it.Walmart is on generator....but when they re opened(5 days after storm) they had not recieved new shipments of anything& were selling meat that was browning& not discounted either! no bread/no propane/no batteries/no bleach.plenty of junk food.I did get the longest yard DVD to watch(awesome DVD!)went to next county after Liveingston got their dam emptied(it was gonna bust...did ya'll hear about that on news?) they have power and real meat! even lunch meat.MREs are nice,but some suck.

I probably won't log on again till end of week& only when hubbys gone.He'd have a fit and throw me& computer in pond if knew i was online....my excuse...hey guess call waiting don't work*rolling eyes looking innocent*

everyone NORTH of me go outside and blow cold front...its moveing too slow.its HOT without AC!!!!

njoynit, I am glad that you weathered the storm safely. Hope everything that was affected gets straightened out sooner for you.

When you said you put the MREs in the sun to heat, my first thought was "are they safe to eat?" I know you must be miserable in the heat. I grew up in Texas (in Kilgore) and I remember well how hot it got. I am praying that you get cooled off soon...

Dianna

praying for you njoynit. let us know if there is anything we can do for you!

I was so glad to see this today!

Man, I hope they can get the electric on soon. That seems like an awful long time!

Can't wait to hear what it was like during all this with the added degree of difficulty having three unruly ducks in the house!

Your mom said you have mail service now...so be on the lookout for a package from Kentucky.

Hey...BTW...I found out that my family is from Tyler, Texas!
I didn't know that...well, I knew it was somewhere in Texas, but turns out it's where you live!


Cindy

So glad to hear from you njoynit
everybody has been worried about you.
Take carexx

Tyler Tx.When we 1st moved to TX we lived Whitehouse a lil town just south of Tyler,but all the stores were in Tyler(ANOTHER dam dry county.I really know how to pick um)
MREs got these heat packs that can be used as a heatpad for back afterwards for about 15 minutes.They got these boxed meals that have 3 meals in um& the canned food is what I "tex-o-wave"I currently have 4 cans of raviolli "tex-o-wave"ing as we type.I'm outta cat food right now.so my ducks had their duck feed with raisons today.They like raisons& I had to run galveston off the porch cause he was knocking on the door wondering where all the minnows were that he ate yesterday(outta that BD pond...the minnows survived the storm too)
I met the tree cutting crew today.boy are THEY suffering!they from MI,but they kewl.they shared a beer with me& I gave them all a coke.they say are 73 miles of power line to be re-run back here and that when they are finished the power may be on in about 30 days.they say I'm in the #3 spot thats declared a fedral diasaster area.thats out of 10 counties.
Its not so hot today.Its 91,but I leaned boards up over windows on sunny side house.We shut generator off for the 1st time last night,then liked to never got it started again.so we decided to not shut it off again.too painful pulling that darn cord(BIL borrowed it and burned a $378 starter up,were looking for a rebuilt one)

I'll watch for that package cindy.I know it gotta have something good!!!!
I fertilzed plants today.those blooms gonna be awesome on my burgs this next flush(I have a few of my pics of them saved as backgrounds/wallpaper...really awesome.everytone should do at LEAST one.they really make ya drool)

I logged on to pay bills.guess I got lost too.I miss you guys,but prefer real power from a meter.

njoynit!
I miss you so bad!

A woman after my own heart!




Hope you're back here full-time soon!

Miss you,
Cindy

Njoynit, so glad that your you and your family are o.k. I was just complaining about how our power bills are going up 16%. After reading your posts I need someone to come and slap me. 30 days without power is going to be a hard run. Keep your chin up and I will be keeping you in my thoughts.

GOOD TO HEAR YOU ARE FINE.........
AND FAMILY IS OKAY TOO!!!

We were all wondering'..
And hopin' and prayin' you would be
okay.. and all stave thru it okay...

And the ducks and your plants too!!!

Send that video...would really like to see it...

And yes, keep THE FAITH!!!!!

so very glad to see you hang in there, we're all praying for you!

They got my power on!
about 8:30 friday nite.but not everyoes is on.(it really pays for a change a livn the back of woods!where the power enters :rolleyes: I walked about some takeing pics this morning and see spencer has no power and a tree in his log house.I still hear generators at nite(BUT NOT MINE!!!YIPPIE!)We cut& wacked on the cedar so its not leaning on house till the chainsaw dulled out again.(it kinda looks like a cedar palm right now.& I'M CLEAN!!!!!!!!I finally got a hot shower.I'm currently enjoying a rain shower& it has no wind!no trees snapping(well unless we get alot of rain,some partial uproots may uproot the rest of way) I got mail saturday,but not friday& am SURE they will use the columbas day event to NOT deliver today.I couldn't buy charcoal in town yesterday cause was NONE so had fried bolony sandwhiches& salad for dinner(and this rain shoots useing the woodstove tonight)We are also under a county wide burn-ban(though have idiot neighbors who burn anyway)I burned in woodstove outside for a bit yesterday(If was smart and not "online -one-tracked".....I would have got the fire going again before the rain& turned the damper or even bent some metal over the pipe.I have a phone line run through wall(I really hope he don't notice the hole i made....on purpse)and through the closet into a hole prevouisly made to the phone jack.
I'm gonna try to send some video now.


Would be nice to know if is a way to post videos...like a webshots albulm ya know.they got free places for videos?????

njoynit, I am so happy for you! I know you feel much better now, having had a real shower/bath. That is probably what I miss the most when the power goes out around here. I can't imagine being without as long as you were. Four days about did me in...

Glad to see that you are back posting, too. We really missed you!

Dianna

njoynit!
I'm so happy!!!
That news is worthy of the dancing banana!

Hey...didn't I send you an invite to Google a long time ago?
They have free video hosting.

Google Video!
I'm gonna put some video of Lola on there!

Cindy Faye

hey njoynit! so glad to have you home... i know that "clean" feeling, isn't it great!

thank you Cindy.. ***I really really need that maid!

I'll posty my google link tomorrow
and and...I think it arrived cindy ,I'll know in the morning...and I'm raiding the beef jerky 1st!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

njoynit, watch your mail box starting friday... i didn't have any envelopes though...

Since you have electricity now, hoard it all FOR YOURSELF!
There's about 20 Slim Jims and a can of cashews in there!
HIDE THEM!

Cindy Sue

I told hubby about the cashews when we got off the phone that nite.It was also brought to my attention that I don't buy them for him no more(dam plant wackers don't DESERVE rewards! :p )I'm still loading videos.I got interuppted when got yelled at for being online(but really wasn't....my computer was in the zone without me)I didn't know he was expecting a call....1.I don't read minds& 2 if he called he wouldn't have got through anyway.**for someone who don't drink.....he could have used one last nite in my opinion**

I seen a car back here...it rode some roots durring RITA.looks like the tree uprooted...and the car was parked just right...its on top of the roots about 4 ft up in air.in perfect condtion.

I'll do photos this afternoon when return from town.I'd HOPED to be posting a video link right now......I have 4 loaded 4 togo& 2 failed to reload up.