Ferret
What about empty shells? I presume that they would be collected up to be doled
out to needy displaced hermit crabs who lost their other homes during the storm.
That's only right is it not?
Our favorite gun story goes like this - that there are 5 guns for every man,
woman and child in Texas, but a Texas woman we talked to said that sounded
bizarre.  She herself has no more than three of them, so I guess things get
exaggerated.

ferreter wrote:

> 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
> >