IS JACK ORMAN OK!?!?!?

[troubledtom]

i can't find his phone number, and it may not work anyway much less email.
        please advise, :!:  :!:  :!:  :!:  :!:  :?:
             - tom pollock

[amz-fx]

Hi Tom (and all),

We are doing okay down here...  it was interesting for a few hours as huge oak trees swayed back and forth and one 75-footer toppled in my backyard, but other than that and a huge limb that went into my swimming pool, we are doing fine...  except there has been no electricity for 3 days.

The first two days I rigged some power inverters to my car and ran some fans and lights from them...  no to mention a small Tv and an Xbox...  gotta keep the kids happy.  But the fans weren't cutting it so I stood in a long line at a Home Depot store and bought a power generator so I can now get online for a few minutes to check emails as well as powering the little window air conditioner that keeps my wife happy...

My monitor doesn't much like the signal coming from the generator and flickers a lot...  and the desk clock runs about 10 minutes fast every 8 hours!  Obviously its not exactly 60 Hz.

It started to get tense around town today...  Baton Rouge, which is normally 350,000 people or so is now about 1 million...  traffic is a giant snarl since so many traffic lights are not working due to power outtages.  You cannot find a loaf of bread, bottled water or bags of ice.  Gasoline is in short supply and teher were LONG lines at the few places that still had gasoline today.  I have about 5 gallons for the generator so I cannot use it full-time.  Even gas cans (large ones) are hard to find...  I have a collection of 1 gal. size.

Where I work has no power ---  there are trees across the power lines on the golf course next door --- but one of the companies we own has a big 100A diesel generator and I got it hooked into the building today to power some of the essentials...  we could process a few orders, do some billing and check emails.  Tomorrow we'll try to get a few more functions going and chip away at it little by little....

It's no fun sitting around in the dark, and it's HOT (about 93F indoors right now at 9:20pm) and my kids are starting to get rank...

Well, that's about it for now, gotta save the gas for the fans and A/C.  At least we have a couple of cans of chili and some Spam to eat  

The UPS guys are troopers...  Tuesday (the day after the storm), they plowed through the downed tree limbs and powerlines and delivered a delay pedal that I had ordered, and today they brought a box with some mini-booster pcbs!    

Well, that's about it for now, gotta save the gas for the fans and A/C.  At least we have a couple of cans of chili and some Spam to eat  

Thanks for asking,  don't know when I'll be able to get online again...

Best regards, Jack

[troubledtom]

thanx jack,
      you are the the man. i'm soooooooooooooooooooo
happy all is workable.
            w/ peace ,love, and good health
my friend.
                      - tom :wink:

[jimbob]

Good luck and take care down there!

[aron]

WOw, glad you are ok. It must be crazy.... All of my friends seem to be ok.  

[Marcos - Munky]

Good to hear that you're OK. My best wishes to everybody who live near where Katrina did it's bad work.

[jmusser]

My brother-in-law lives about 20 miles away from downtown New Orleans in St. Charles Perish. I believe everything was in decent shape down there until the latest levy breech. I would guess water is up to the second story of their house by now . As far as I'm concerned, this is close to THE natural disaster. I don't know of anything else like it. In all other disasters, at least after the thing is over, you can access and try to rebuild. Now, all you have is a several square mile cesspool, that you can't pump out, becaus the sides of the septic are caved in! I have my doubts as to whether the place will ever be suitable for habitation again, and maybe, it should never be inhabited again. This was always going to happen. it was just a matter of when. I guess this is WHEN!

[AL]

Whew !!! Glad you're OK down there. Take care of yourself

AL

[StephenGiles]

Glad you're OK Jack. I'll never complain about the heat in our house on a day like yesterday - 92F.
Stephen

[davebungo]

Keep your head down and your chin up, Jack.

[ejbasses]

Glad to hear your okay. I hope everything will be okay as soon as possible. Good thing you were prepared.

Remember, "what doesnt kill you only makes you stronger". and if you need strength just look up to Him.

Really Glad your okay

[Paul Marossy]

Keep safe! It sounds like things are getting crazy over there.  

[vanhansen]

I'm glad to see you and the family are safe, Jack.  How long before you start working on "improving" the generator so it doesn't effect your monitor?  I know you had to think about it at least once.  

[Vsat]

Jack - glad to hear you and yours are OK.... hang in there.
Regards, Mike

[Ed Rembold]

I was wondering if you and your's were O.K. Jack.

Reading your post makes it seem so much more "real".
What a tough, tough situation.

Ed R.

[Mark Hammer]

IIRC, Jack's been through this before.  He's a trooper.

[Penguin]

is there anything we can do to help out jack and others down there.  i mean we are pretty strong in number on the diy forum i know alot of us are not in the states but is there anything we could do at all.

i am very poor but you have my
attention
time
support
prayers
anythign else i can possibly do.

ansilgregory@yahoo.com

best wishes

ed

ps i got a couple non diyers down that way also.

[bass_econo]

Well I'm going to make a donation to the American Red Cross and donate blood this weekend at one of their blood drives.  
I'm also going to Ebay a bunch of stuff and make another donation with that as well.  I'm sure we've all got some pedals lying around that we can sell on ebay to make donations!

[squidsquad]

Perhaps we should all pray for some cooler weather for our respected, unfortunate comrads.  Must be Hellish without power.

[dominatrix_volleyball]

Yeech. I'm too new here to really know Jack Orman, but it's things like this that remind me how nature doesn't discriminate.


I'm glad you're okay, and I hope everything in your life recovers from this disaster.