Re: [gremlintime] Gremlin Garage surives The Blow, tarp doesn't...tree on "free" Gremlin?

[mwoodstrup <mwoodstrup@xxxx>]

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