Hey, Jerry, good to hear you are OK. This is Matt your old friend from this past spring. I was thinking about you and those Gremlins as the storm came in. Did you ever find out who made those canvas top Gremilns? I still need parts for mine. Please let me know when you can. I know they came from England. Thanks, matt (illinois) on 9/19/03 8:07 AM, Jerry at gremlingts@xxxx wrote: > Well, the Gremlin Garage surived, as did all the cars. Only > causulity was a tarp on my sunroof Gremlin, it was dryrotted, so it > split and came off. Other than that, only a few stray leaves and > branches marr the yard around my house ( just looking from the back > deck ). The trees stayed up ( well, one behind me at another house > looks like it's no longer there, will go see later on ). Actually, > there was some leakage of water from the roof into my house, I had > water dripping down the upstairs bedroom wall, and into the ceiling > below downstairs, although thought I had fixed that problem a year > ago when part of the roofing blew off. Guess not. :( Will call my > insurance company to see if they'll pay for it , though. If it's > under $500, they won't. Oh well. > Got a call from my friend Sean south of me, he said a tree had > fallen in his driveway, and "might" be on the Gremlin ( the free > one ), he wasn't sure. It fell parallel with the driveway, might only > be a few branches near it or hit it, he did't go around the side of > the house to check last night, only knew the Gremlin was in the > general area. I'll know more today, I hope, and it'll be good news. :) > Called work, got no answer, so guess no one showed up for work as > of 8 am this morning. Not in a hurry to go in,either, with all the > problems on the roads ( trees, flooding, etc. ). So, guess I may go > walk around the neighborhoods to see what damage has happened. > Probably will call it off going to work anyway. :) I live in northern > Virginia, the storm track stayed west instead of veering more north > like they predicted, so we didn't get as much rain and wind as they > first predicted. I think we're lucky here, really. My house caught > most of the wind, as did the trees, my Gremlins were barely ruffled > by the winds for the most part, as my driveway is surrounded by 20' > tall pines and a fence on one side, and the house and deck and fence > on another. Even my shed and little rain awning on the garage > survived the onslaught of the Isabel, so I guess my carpentry skills > are ok. LOL. > I pray that everyone else gets away with minimal damage as well, > looks like most of the worst went to the mountains, and they got > about 18+ INCHES of rain last night! Whew! I'm sure we'll get some > flooding from the rain waters when it comes back down our way in a > few days, though. Alexandria, VA is hit hard in Olde Towne, water is > flooding two historic blocks ( as usual). We had our power flicker on > and off all last night, but never really lost it longer thana few > seconds. > Well, guess I'll call in work again, see if anyone showed up, if > not, I'm not going in. Thats' the weather report from Virginia, > > Jerry Casper