"Big Jim" > wrote in message

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> " BOB" > wrote in message
> .. .
> > "Big Jim" wrote
> > > "Chef Juke" wrote...
> > > > Sounds like a lot of weather down your way...
> > > >
> > > > Just checking to see if you weathered the storms okay...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -Chef Juke
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -Chef Juke
> > > > "EVERYbody Eats When They Come To MY House!"
> > >
> > > -- Yep, all the worst weather was south of me.
> > > I got over 5" of rain from about dark till about 3 AM. Rain
> > > gauge ran over, was empty when the rain started.
> > > Fats and Kili were closer to it than me. But missed them too.
> > > Thanks for axing.
> > > James A. "Big Jim" Whitten
> > >
> > > www.lazyq.com
> >
> > Jim,
> > Glad you dodged the bullet.
> > I have friends near Ocala who say they heard a tornado (well, *she*
> > heard it, *he* slept through)
> >
> > The cooks at the Florida BBQ Association's "Grillin' & Chillin' on
> > Main" contest in Wauchula donated the BBQ that they had left, and I
> > delivered 2 large coolers of cooked BBQ and a smaller cooler with
> > raw chicken to the Fire Department in Deland to feed victems and
> > volunteers. There's a group trying to take their smokers to the
> > different effected areas, but beaurocracy seems to be getting in
> > the way. BOB
> >
>
> Well if they can get an OK, I got a pit that can cook as much as 2 or
> 3 or more regular pits I can haul down.
> James A. "Big Jim" Whitten
>
> www.lazyq.com

Thanks. I'll let you know as soon as I hear anything.
At one checkpoint, a very young Deputy Sherriff wouldn't let the father of a
victem into the area, even with the daughter-in-law there *at the
checkpoint* because he (sherriff) couldn't call the home to ask the son if
it was OK. Hmmm??? Tornado sometimes = loss of power *AND* phone
service???????

BOB