No bullet dodging here! Second storm in 3 weeks that went ashore at roughly
Glen Efinger's place. Amazingly, his apartment is still with power, phone
and no significant damage. This recent storm did roof damage to his shop
according to a phone call I had with him recently. The building housing his
shop is owned by a well respected Porsche prep guy. He called on a 356
racer friend that is in the building business to help with the roof. What
could be better? Having a 356 wrench/pilot up on your roof working with tar
and roofing materials to save your Brit cars! Glen says there is some loss
of inventory and his assembly room is more than a little soggy.
My house is undamaged but we have a huge number of trees down. Driveway was
blocked for some time by them. Power company estimates that our power may
be restored by Oct 8! Last storm we were out for 10 days, this forecast is
for 13 days. Race cars are all ok but its a good thing I moved my truck to
be in front of the race shop that is detached from the garage. A tree that
is roughly 18 inch diameter just above the ground came down and would have
been across the hood/cab. Hopefully my TR3 will run again someday, the
gearbox is at Glen's and has been since it failed at a race in July.
It's nice of the TRiumph community to ask about us all. Anyone want some
mosquitoes?
Mike Jackson
Chris Moore wrote:
> JK is fine. We lost power for about 15 hours Monday after 2 huge downed
> trees took out 3 or 4 power poles nearby. Lots of yard debris, but
> Tallahassee and the coast just south of here dodged the bullet once
> again.
>
> Chris Moore
>
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:48:14 -0600 owner-fot-digest@autox.team.net
> (fot-digest) writes:
>
> > - ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <GRMTim@aol.com>
> > To: <fot@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 4:40 PM
> > Subject: Condition of Florida FOT members
> >
> >
> > > I'm all right. Pretty pissed off and damned tired of yard work. I
> > have bee stings, poison ivy and a hurt back. You should see what I can
> do
> > with a chain saw though.
> >
>
> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 21:17:46 +0000
> From: emanteno@comcast.net
> Subject: was Mr. Tullius' Airplane Hanger, now FL update
>
> - -------------- Original message --------------
> > I wonder how people like Glen Efinger, Mike Jackson, J.K. Jackson, Tim
> > Studdard, etc. are making out.
> I have been in touch with Mike J, no power and expected to be out for 2+
> weeks. He and Sandy are fine, some trees are down, but otherwise okay.
> Glen lost part of the roof of his shop, but is okay. I think he is on
> generator power (and knowing Glen, that is 1 powerful and fine running
> generator). Don Marshall in Jacksonville escaped pretty much unscathed,
> as did my daughter and son in law, who live about an hour south of Mike.
> Irv
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