REFLECTOR: Welcome back

[Dale W. Thomas]

Isn't it amazing what a couple thousand of your closest friends can
accomplish by sending prayers your way!

Glad to hear everyone escaped relatively unscathed.....


Dale Thomas




> Thanks!  It's nice to have the house somewhat near normal - power was
> restored late last week after 12-days without lights, running water, or
> telephone.  I feel so very fortunate, though.  Our home came through
> "Frances" with minor screen damage and a dozen or so lost shingles.
> Many of my neighbors lost all of their roof shingles and had major water
> leaks from the wx.  Not good.  Lots and lots of branches and debris on
> the ground.  My neighbor jokingly said, "Boy, this place looks like a
> hurricane hit it!" ... yep.  I don't know of any home in this area that
> went through the storm without some damage.  You know, though ...
> through it all, this storm has brought people in this area together.  My
> immediate neighbor, who I've had a passing "How you doing?" kind of
> relationship over the years - developed into a "How can I help you?" and
> more like, how can we help each other kind of attitude.  He was low on
> propane, and I was able to help.  He had access to plenty of ice, and so
> I was able to keep the cooler full.  Everyone (except for the lady
> folk!) were shirtless - sweaty - and dirty throughout the week as we
> cleaned up yards and helped neighbors who just couldn't physically "get
> out there" and work with chainsaws and rakes.  There was a certain
> calmness and good feeling through it all.  People everywhere were so
> polite - at intersections that lost STOP signs, at fuel stations where
> the lines were 10 to 15-cars deep with folks buying fuel for their
> generators, offering thanks to the literally hundreds of out-of-town
> utility workers who came to this area help restore power and phones.
> The Sebastian Airport served as the "motor pool" location for about 200
> utility trucks.  I saw trucks from Texas, North Carolina, and
> Pennsylvania.  The area hotels were knocked out of commission - so the
> workers were housed in Orlando - about a 1+30 drive away.  The county
> hired bus lines to take the workers back and forth from the Sebastian
> Airport to their hotel rooms in Orlando.  It was quite an operation.
> Somehow "big" problems don't seem so big any more.  We are facing a lot
> of challenges with getting the factory up and running.  The telephones
> and facsimile still are not working.  Motors are burned out from
> brown-outs and moisture - we are a month behind schedule, and our
> bookkeeper and machinist just quit.  Bonnie Swing saw me with a smile on
> my face and asked if I was happy with everything.  I told her, "No, not
> really - but it's nothing to get upset about - we're here and we're
> getting things back together one piece (problem) at a time".
> Thanks to everyone for keeping us in your thoughts.  Thanks for your
> patience as we work to get Velocity operations going 100%.
> SB
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Derrick" <scott at tnstaafl.net>
> To: "Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list" <reflector at tvbf.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 12:52 PM
> Subject: REFLECTOR: Welcome back
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>> Hay Scott Baker,
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