Sorry Nora , they lied to you , just as they have everyone believing that
all us southerners carry guns ,,,,if we all carried guns we wouldn't have
room for our hand grenades , claymores, bouncing betty mines, bungie sticks
and brass knuckles .... believe us when we tell you that if there were
conchs in the street we would have picked all them up and gently placed them
back in the water ;^)ferret-er
-----Original Message-----
From: NORA BRYAN <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, October 16, 1999 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: Hurricane Irene


>Our news up here in Calgary showed people picking up nice big conch shells
right
>in the street...I wish I'd never seen such a thing, I feel so left out...
>Tho, I guess there should be some plus side for people who live in
hurricane
>areas.
>
>Nora
>Calgary, Alberta
>
>Richard Sedlak wrote:
>
>> Hello Marlo,
>>
>> Yea...so much for the weather channel stating that "they are confident
the
>> storm will go up the West coast of Florida."  Somehow having the eye pass
to
>> the northwest of us here in Fort Lauderdale and then the eye reentering
the
>> Atlantic by West Palm Beach is a bit "off", wouldn't you say?  We did not
>> loose power either, but it was really hairy here from 4:30 to about 6:30
when
>> it was raining so hard it looked like a blizzard outside.  But today was
>> nice...so you could go outside to pick up branches, sweep leaves and
remove
>> palm fronds!
>>
>> Happy Shelling.
>>
>> Richard
>