Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Fellow yachtsmen

It is a sad day in the yachting community after receiving news the two couples being held hostage on their sailboat Quest had been killed.

Our prayers go out to them and their families.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Gas line explosion near our house

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Lots of excitement a little after 10:00PM last night. A 36" gas line exploded near Hanoverton, Oh. The explosion shook our house. It was about 5 to 8 miles away. Our windows and garage door vibrated until they got the line shut off some time later . I drove to about a mile from the site. There were no emergency vehicles there yet. I couldn't believe my eyes. I was one a hill looking down on it. It was an intense fire ball unbelievably high. It was so bright I couldn't even see the flames! At that point I couldn't tell what it was, it was so huge and bright. My first thought was one of the C-130 Air Force cargo planes that fly over our house every Thursday's on their training flights had crashed. I didn't go closer or stay too long as I didn't want to get in the way of any emergency vehicles. Only until I listened to the news did I find out what had happened. Thank goodness no one was hurt or killed for that matter. It was a sight to see!  







Thursday, February 10, 2011

For my friends cruising the Bahamas

For my friends cruising the Bahamas, it was 2 below zero this morning, OUCH! It's almost noon and a balmy 15 degrees. I feel sorry for yawl when your freezing in the 60's. hehehe!

During our power outage due to the ice storm about a week ago our generator bit the dust with a burned out armature! Never anything simple. It supplied our whole house so that's crucial. I bought another Tuesday. Our power goes out all of the time and usually it's days at a time. The weather is to warm up a bit next week so maybe we can get to our boat in Sandusky harbor to start our spring projects on her. At least she is stored inside (not heated) so we will be protected from the elements and we can run a heater inside. Of course much of the work is outside the hull.

We hope to be heading to Florida soon to get out of this nasty stuff for a couple of weeks at least...John