Greg and Paul. I'm glad that you have all survived the catastrophe.
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
www.threeshoes.co.uk
homepage.mac.com/zuiko
On 5 Sep 2005, at 04:08, GMcGrath@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> I've just gotten back online in Biloxi, MS, since our phone service
> and
> electricity came back on this evening. I'm a little to the east of
> Paul's
> location in Pass Christian so we got slightly less force from the
> storm, but Biloxi
> still has massive devastation. The eye wall covered our whole
> county. We rode
> the storm out in my boarded-up home. My home was spared, even
> though four
> large trees fell near it in my yard. Also, my veterinary hospital
> is in good
> shape. My backflow preventer broke off outside the building, so we
> don't have
> running water there, and we still don't have power there, but we
> will be able
> to crank up when those services are restored. I treated one of the
> FEMA
> search dogs for a hurt foot in my parking lot a couple of days ago.
>
> I feel truly blessed that I and my family are safe. Our economy
> here has
> been devastated and it will take many years for us to recover.
> Hopefully, my
> practice will survive. Many thousands here have suffered much more
> than I have
> in the last week, and many have lost their homes and all their worldly
> possessions.
>
> I haven't read previous messages in this thread (or anything else
> from the
> list for that matter) in the last few days. My parents up in the
> Delta have
> been deleting my OM messages to keep my mailbox from overflowing.
> Just wanted to
> let you guys know another list member has survived Katrina.
>
> Greg McGrath
>
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