September 2004

SEPTEMBER 2004

September 21, 2004

Did you know that tomorrow is the first day of fall????? :) HOW MUCH LONGER TILL SNOW ARRIVES. :) :) :)

It can't be tooooo much longer!

Anyway, busy day today. Just got home lots to do around here - will post some pictures later perhaps. :)

Stay tuned :)

We had a bbq :) well sort of.

Me getting ready to cook the hamburgers

Chef Beau

Backseat BBQ Drivers :) or something like that.

Ok so if you can't figure out how to grill the burgers you can always
read the manual.

John and Rick picked some flowers from the front yard :)

The finished product :)

My first Guinea Pig :)

Flowers for the table from the front yard :)

Mother :)

Wednesday, September 22, 2004

WELCOME TO FALL 2004 :) :) :) :)

OK WELL GUESS WHO IS BACK

...IVAN REGENERATES IN THE GULF OF MEXICO... AT 6 PM CDT...2300Z...A TROPICAL STORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A PORTION OF THE GULF OF MEXICO COAST FROM THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER LOUISIANA WESTWARD TO SARGENT TEXAS.

I can honestly say I have never seen a system that basically developed off the African Coast move all the way into the Gulf of Mexico up and off the East Coast and loop back into Southern Florida and now REGENERATE in the Gulf of Mexico. UNREAL

This is the weirdest hurricane season I can ever remember.

Just weird...

SOOOOO NOW

We have Hurricane Jeanne heading for the east coast.

Hurricane Karl moving out to sea.

Tropical Lisa is still moving westward through the Atlantic (heading for the islands).

And Ivan

BUSY BUSY

Ivan last week caused EXTREME flooding in Pennsylvania. See below in ONE county alone

Almost all of Southwestern Pa. has been declared disaster area.

72 municipalities are disaster areas and there are now over 7,100 homes and businesses that were destroyed in Allegheny County alone

Thursday...September 23

Beautiful sunny morning here in West Kentucky. We need rain. I believe it has been 23 or 24 days with only a trace. Doesn't look like rain in the forecast either. Sooooo perhaps a rain dance is in order. :)

FOUR TROPICAL STORMS AND HURRICANES ARE SPINNING IN THE ATLANTIC AND THE GULF OF MEXICO. IVAN AND JEANNE WILL HIT THE USA OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS.

BREAKING NEWS OF THE GOOD KIND!!!

Ayah Allawi (C), Prime Minister of Iraq, addresses
a joint meeting of the 108th Congress of the United States on Capitol
Hill in Washington, D.C., September 23, 2004, as U.S. Vice President
Dick Cheney and Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert looking on.
Allawi told the U.S. Congress on Thursday the 'overwhelming
majority' of Iraqis are grateful to the United States for ousting
Saddam Hussein and said democratic forces are succeeding
in Iraq. REUTERS

Imagine, seeing the new President of Iraq standing before Congress!!!

Good Stuff!

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TROPICAL STORM IVAN IS GOING TO HIT LOUISIANA AND TEXAS.
HURRICANE JEANNE IS GOING TO HIT FLORIDA OR GEORGIA.

WICKED SEASON CONTINUES.

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THIS IS DAY 23 with NO RAIN HERE IN PADUCAH.

HURRICANE JEANNE THIS AFTERNOON - MOVING TOWARDS
FLORIDA

Some of the newspapers from Florida tell the story over the past few weeks.

Florida Papers Headline the Canes

Oops...Ivan is not hitting Florida again :) I MEANT TEXAS!!!

Friday, September 24, 2004

I am still waiting to hear from the Red Cross. They said they are waiting on a phone call to send more people down south. They are a bit surprised that they have not called - sooooo we wait.

I have a meeting on Monday afternoon with the guy that is currently in charge of "disaster" services here in Paducah. We are going to try and figure out how to revamp the program. We need a lot more interest and money. We are basically having a big pow wow to come up with some ideas.

They are really excited to have someone interested in helping.

The entire Red Cross program here is at a major crossroads.

Grandmother is doing better and better. I hope she can come home in a couple of weeks. Mother is not ready for her to return though. Mother has to have enough strength to lift her. It could be 3-4 weeks before that happens.

We are all anxious to get things back to normal though.

Anyway, things are pretty busy around here.

Dylan's birthday is this weekend. :) I am going to his birthday party tonight.

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Norman Update...

Norman is out of the hospital :) YAY He is doing much better and is expected to make a full recovery!

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van moved ashore in Texas last night. There was a lot of heavy rain and some wind.

Jeanne is apparently going to be a MAJOR hurricane when it strikes Florida up to Georgia later this weekend :( Another blow for that ravaged state.

Ivan hits Texas...and Jeanne threatens Florida and the Southeastern United States

Here you can see Ivan in Texas
Jeanne off the Southeast Coast
Karl way up to the Northeast
Lisa moving into the Caribbean

WOW!

Dylan's birthday is today :) He turned 15 years old! We all went down to Cyberia to celebrate.

Dylan and his stepbrother Dylan :)

Cyberia

Cyberia...Dylans Birthday

Dylan at his party :)

Me, Dylan, Dione

Dione and Deena

My sister Dione and me :)

Rick

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DYLAN

Dylan and Dione

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2004

MAJOR HURRICANE HEADING FOR FLORIDA...
HURRICANE JEANNE WILL STRIKE FLORIDA STARTING LATER TONIGHT AND THROUGH THE DAY ON SUNDAY.

JEANNE COULD HAVE WINDS GUSTING OVER 160 MILES PER HOUR AT LANDFALL. SUSTAINED WINDS COULD BE ABOVE 115 MILES PER HOUR.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS HURRICANE.

ONCE AGAIN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA IS GOING TO GET HIT VERY VERY VERY HARD.

Satellite Image - JEANNE AND HER EYE MOVING
TOWARDS FLORIDA

Jeanne on Radar this morning...see the eye east of Miami

Jeanne takes eye on Southern Florida

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11 a.m.

JEANNE IS NOW A CATEGORY THREE HURRICANE AND CONTINUES TO GAIN STRENGTH. IT IS EXTREMELY RARA FOR A MAJOR HURRICANE TO HIT THE SAME AREA DURING THE SAME SEASON.

HERE WE GO AGAIN - MIAMI/WEST PALM BEACH AND AREAS TO THE NORTH.

VERY DANGEROUS HURRICANE APPROACHING THE COAST.

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Saturday Evening, Jeanne is going to hit north of Palm Beach, Florida. Hard hit - major hurricane.

Jeanne