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Glad to hear everyone is safe , been there with flooded basements , can be a major pain . Hope all works out well .

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The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
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Me too, man.

Last ive heard the death toll is above 20 from florida all the way up . Its sad that any have lost their lives and our thoughts go out to those familys .

Are there any others in Luthier Land who have been affected we havent heard from , or any further updates on those we have heard from?

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

I am fine here, some water in the base ment, took a ride yesterday afternnon, many homes submerged, I got several cals from friends and relatives yesterday , all most every water spanning bridge in the area has been closed down , some towns have no roadway in or out (as of last night ) ie cornwall, washingtonville , mountainville. I am sure there are more. my brother and his girl were stuck in mountainville with no pwer and unable to leave as the streams were raging over both bridges of egress. the wallkill river was expected to crest at 18.5" flooding is at 12" .. the N Y state thruway was closed for 130 miles yersterday as well as route 17 . I set up my portable generator.. but never needed to use it as I only lost power for awhile saturday night while I was asleep . thank the Lord! jody

No power but I have a generator. I lost one tree which was away from everything so no damage, just clean up to look forward to. I had to go to work just to get internet access. Doing fine in RI.

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Hutch

Get the heck off the couch and go build a guitar!!!!

Glad to hear everyone ok Jody , hang in there . Water will go away sooner or later .




Is it Tone wood ????

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

A tree crushed my new Audi, and I lost 9 trees... two just missing my house. Everyone is fine, however.

Ouch !! Well at least everyones ok . Stuff can be replaced , people cant . Glad you are alright .

Do ya have a fire place , sounds like you either have new guitar wood or a good start on the winters firewood .

Thanks for checking in

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

Okay, we just shut down the generator after 48+ hours off the grid. R.H was up to 50% in the shop with my dehumidifier running double time.
Lots of trees down, flooding, etc. but all is well here in North Jersey now.

Thanks for the thoughts Big Jim

As I have asked the others ..... Any tonewood in those trees ??

Glad everyones well !

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

We're all fine here except for this:

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article ... 146496.php

Her husband and I worked together at the New York State Museum here in Albany for 35 years.........such a random thing.........

I'm tucked into a hollow between Germantown and Newark. Most of the wind blew over top of us, and the rain was less than I expected. I took a few extra precautions that may not have been needed, but better safe than sorry. Hopefully this won't be the storm that cried "Wolf!" I'm sure we have a few more storms to weather this season, and this may not be the worst.
The power blinked off for a couple of hours overnight, and we lost phone and internet for a day, but overall little damage was seen.

Such a sad sitaution , in this we always hope that the news will be positive no matter what , sadly it never is . It helps us to appreciate how quickly things can go wrong . Our hearts and thoughts go out to those who have lost so much in this .

Those who are all ok , please take some time and think about those who are not !

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

Power's still out - a neighbor's kindness in letting me piggyback on his generator means my sump pump is functioning well and our freezer is staying cold.

No damage at all. We were so well-prepared in advance of the storm that even the relatively minor flooding we got in the basement didn't ruin anything.

We were very lucky, and now we're just anxiously awaiting the return of power.

Glad to hear you guys faired well ! Hang in there alota people in the same boat

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

It takes a while for these things to sort out and reveal all the consequences ...

We just found out that one of our 2009 graduates and a buddy of his drowned in one of the local streams while trying to walk 2 miles home Saturday night in the middle of the storm.

Smart thing to do - no!
Tragic anyway? - yes.

So incongruous, given that we are in the midst of enjoying what is far and away our best weather of the entire summer right now, and enjoying the fact that I only had to pick up a few dead twigs.

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Jim Kirby
kirby@udel.edu

ran 17" of water through the bottom half of a grizzly widebelt sander, had motors submerged on my dust collector and a few other tools. pulled the motors, took off the covers and soaked with WD40, now letting everything dry out. hopefully no damage. could have canoed around my house without my paddle touching ground. got power and water back yesterday. everyone OK.

Jim , its always a sad situation when we lose people like that . Thanks for chiming in again and updating .

Jason .. Sorry you had such a rough time my friend , all we can do is encourage you to take your time and be carefull. You guys made it through safe so far , stuff can be replaced , take ur time and be safe cleaning up.

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

Lost power on Sunday morning at 11, got it back Tuesday evening at 8:30. Lost a few roof shingles and a lot of small dead branches from our swamp maple tree. Lost most of our food in the fridge/freezer. Could have been worse. No flooding in the basement. However, I hear that Vermont and parts of upstate NY got hit very bad. There was a town in Vermont that was entirely washed away, and similar story near Schenectady NY.

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

Glad your all ok Don , thanks for letting us know . I was reading the internet and it appears that the flooding is worse than the storm was. Hang in there .

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The Shallower the depth of the stream , The Louder the Babble !
The Taking Of Offense Is the Life Course Of The Stupid One !
Wanna Leave a Better Planet for our Kids? How about Working on BETTER KIDS for our Planet !
Forgiveness is the ability to accept an apology that you will probably NEVER GET
The truth will set you free , But FIRST, it will probably Piss you Off !
Creativity is allowing yourself to make Mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to Keep !
The Saddest thing anyone can do , is push a Loyal Person to the point that they Dont Care Anymore
Never met a STRONG person who had an EASY past !
http://wiksnwudwerks.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/GatewayA ... rAssembly/

Nothing happened except we lost power on sunday and just got it back about an hour ago. hope everyone else is ok.

Well if it's anything like living in Florida you all might have your homeowners insurance double next year. Even if you didn't have a claim.