Yo, hupscrap

[GiG]

Please check in - y'all got power back yet?
Been thinkin of ya, watchin videos on the youtube and all, love "Rollin in My KIA", somethin about "perferatin the perpatrator", almost sounds like a Stan Ridgeway song.

I know you are lovin that '57 Gipson Country Western, man, some fancy pickin especially on "Kent's Song"  sounds great, please post more videos (if yer inverter can take it...)

Went to school in Kalamazoo, where that fine instrument was crafted:

"Orville Gibson started making instruments in 1894 and founded the company in 1902 as the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co. Ltd. in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to make mandolin-family instruments."

Anyhow, having a good time watching your youtubes, even saw the "Electric Bench" where young Erik kicked square in the chops (bloody chicklets...).

CHEERS

~GiG~  -   Live from the home office

[robin]

I believe i saw Carolyn post on FB they have their power back .

[hubcapsc]

We got the power back around 4:30 on Thursday. I had to do a lot of
stuff like getting ice and helping neighbors get stuff straightened out,
going to the office in Clemson where there was power so I could
recharge all these power tool batteries we've been living off of.
And it took a half hour for Carolyn's propane coffee maker to make
coffee in the mornings!    ... oh well... first world problems...

Glad you liked Kent's song, I can't wait for the kungflu to be over, I
hope to record it again with him playing his part...

I almost gave up trying to get to Lowes for lumber. I went "the normal
way" and the road was closed off. Went another way and came through
some real destruction, and then that road was closed. I tried one other
route before I gave up and that one worked. It lead me into and out of
the direct path of the tornado, holy cow, I had no idea it was that bad,
total chaos, like all the trees in the woods were broken off...

The tornado actually improved the situation (other than power) at
my house. There were a couple of dangerous dead pine trees on
the path over to Carolyn's barn. The tornado blew one over and
it fell on the other one 

-Mike

[hubcapsc]

Went into Seneca today, grocery store and Home Depot. This time
I rolled in on the main road, hiway 59. Closed at what we call "the
beltway", the Seneca bypass. I took the beltway towards Home
Depot, and again passed through the path of the tornado. I now
realize how trashed the Borg Warner plant, and another industrial
building next to it, are. And I see that the path goes directly through
the heart of all the neighborhoods in town  ... I was in Charleston
a few days after Hugo, and did a Church mission trip to  Pascagoula
after Katrina. Tornadoes leave a smaller path of destruction, but not
a lesser one. The cell phone alarm woke me up at 3 am that morning,
and I was blithely watching the weatherman on my cell phone in my
underwear when the tornado passed by.

For the first time that I've been there, they have a line at Home Depot.
After so many people get into the store, people start lining up at the
front door, one person out, one person in. Also for the first time, there
was TP and paper towels (just a few packs) at the grocery store.

-Mike "tornadoes and the kungflu"

[GiG]

Thanks for checking in Brother, we was concerned and knew y’all was ok.
This has been a day of talking on the phone to a lot of our beloved brothers and sisters so be safe and be sure to forward all residuals to Kent 
Much love
GiG   

[hubcapsc]

There's a place they graded years ago out on the beltway around Seneca...
that's where they're taking all the trees and big limbs that came down. I
thought to hold up my camera when I drove by the other day. Driving through
the neighborhoods where all this stuff came from is horrifying... some houses
are demolished totally. There's a place where you come up the hill on Radio
Station road where you used to drive through the woods and there were
would be a house here or there off the road. There's no woods there now,
and the houses are all wearing tarps for roofs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvXAapFrAUo         <---- 20 seconds

-Mike

[The emperor has no clothes]

There's a place they graded years ago out on the beltway around Seneca...
that's where they're taking all the trees and big limbs that came down. I
thought to hold up my camera when I drove by the other day. Driving through
the neighborhoods where all this stuff came from is horrifying... some houses
are demolished totally. There's a place where you come up the hill on Radio
Station road where you used to drive through the woods and there were
would be a house here or there off the road. There's no woods there now,
and the houses are all wearing tarps for roofs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvXAapFrAUo         <---- 20 seconds

-Mike

That's a lot of damage. Was it just one tornado ?

[hubcapsc]

Just one. That graded area is across the street from the
Borg Warner plant that got trashed. The Borg Warner
plant looks like a bunch of big boxes covered in tyvek surrounded
by a million contractor's trucks of all sizes... with police cars
at the entrance...

-Mike