Such destruction is devastating for anyone, and as you said, things will not be normal for a long time. It is a real concern for anyone who has family in the hard hit storm areas. I believe that unless we take global warming as a very real and imminent problem, storms like this will become more frequent. This summer in British Columbia we experienced the worst ever year for forest fires beating last year’s record and like California a lot of homes and properties were burned to the foundations. with the tress gone, and extremely dry conditions, the new danger is landslides due to local violent rainstorms. One woman is still missing and presumed dead when a landslide took the car she was driving and presumably buried it. The forest fires are usually caused by lightning strikes.
Will keep your family in our thoughts and prayers. Neville (Nev) Gosling British Columbia Canada On Oct 13, 2018, at 16:02, Chuck Alexander <chuckalexan...@centurylink.net> wrote: Folks: We have a daughter in law and grandson as well as a niece and her kids that we knew made out alive as the Nat’l guard/Red Cross let each family call their families to tell them they survived via sat phone the other day. However, they all lost their houses. They got to go check on their houses this morning (couldn’t go earlier as their were live wires, gators, poisonous snakes, boards with nails in them etc and ALL their houses were GONE, PERIOD. All that was left was the foundations This taught us all a valuable lesson. You know how the weather ppl tell you that if you live in a mobile home, that you need to get out and stay out till it’s safe to return. What is taught us was this. And we know two as we lived in DeFuniak Spgs FL for 25 yrs and got hit by numerous tornadoes and hurricanes (most notably Hurricane Opal in about ’95 or ’96 I think. It caught us off guard and all of our kids were still living at home and it was supposed to hit at less than 100mph, then be much less than that 45 miles or so inland which is where we lived. Anyway, during the night it gained speed and hit us at 135+ mph for 8+ hours. All we could do is lay on the floor, and turn the mattresses over and get under them. Course back then dopplar radar wasn’t as good as it is now. Anyway, I said all that to say this. You get a direct hit by a tornado or a hurricane, you need to get out if at all possible because our grandson and daughter in law lived in a mobile home and the nieces and nephews lived in a site built house and they were both destroyed. You can click on the link I have provided below taken from space via the NOAA weather service and see the mobile home park our daughter in law and grandson lived in. Open the link and type in the search bar 1128 S. Gay Ave, Panama City FL 32404 United States and zoom in. See how the mobile homes (or what’s left of them) are at a diagonal setting right?? Before Hurricane they were in STRAIGHT rows. Anyway, getting to the point of the email. Please keep our family members (and anybody who lost their home) in your thoughts and prayers as “normal” is going to be a long way down the road. I don’t know about the nieces and nephews, but our grandson and daughter in law have been wanting to move u here for a while. So, I guess that “soon” will be NOW. They are staying at our daughter in laws mother in the mean time until she settles up with the insurance company, tries to fine anything at all in that debris pile etc. Thanks a lot, Chuck https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/michael/index.html#12/30.1392/-85.6810 <https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/michael/index.html#12/30.1392/-85.6810> -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en> VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com <http://www.linesend.com/> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
