[cmakin]

Stanbrough at Lawrenceburg, during the first Indiana Sprint week event.

[BuckeyeBullet]

Yet another great photograph...this was the first (and only to date) ISW event for me :thumb great night of racing can't wait for next year!

[IndyBound]

Cmakin, thanks for another great photo. I rarely have a chance to attend the races you post picures from, viewing your daily post puts me there.

My thoughts and prayers are with the Texas Gulf Coast Residents today, hope all stay safe, Ike appears to be a monstrous storm. In the mid 90's I thought I might be calling the Houston-Galveston Area home after retirement, instead I landed in Arizona. I have made numerous visits to the Houston, Beaumont, Galveston, Harris County Area and spent six weeks the winter of 2000-2001 in the Rockport-Fulton, Port Aransas, Corpus Christi Area, they are all beautiful areas. My prayers will remain with the residents of these areas over the next several days.

Stay safe,

Patti

[cmakin]

Originally Posted by IndyBound Cmakin, thanks for another great photo. I rarely have a chance to attend the races you post picures from, viewing your daily post puts me there. My thoughts and prayers are with the Texas Gulf Coast Residents today, hope all stay safe, Ike appears to be a monstrous storm. In the mid 90's I thought I might be calling the Houston-Galveston Area home after retirement, instead I landed in Arizona. I have made numerous visits to the Houston, Beaumont, Galveston, Harris County Area and spent six weeks the winter of 2000-2001 in the Rockport-Fulton, Port Aransas, Corpus Christi Area, they are all beautiful areas. My prayers will remain with the residents of these areas over the next several days. Stay safe, Patti

Thanks Patti. We were hit pretty hard. I am just back on line right now. I have to tell you, we may have been hit hard, but I spent quite a bit if time in Louisiana post Katrina (my day job) and I have to tell you, our damage was minimal, no matter what you might see on TV. After spending the last few days captive to radio, it makes us sound like a group of whiners, wanting to know where the next delivery of ice or MREs is going to be, and to have all the politicians point fingers. I hope that message isn't the one that gets out. Most of us are doing everything that we can. Personally, I lost a couple sections of fence, and a whole bunch of frozen food. That is it.

[IndyBound]

Originally Posted by cmakin Thanks Patti. We were hit pretty hard. I am just back on line right now. I have to tell you, we may have been hit hard, but I spent quite a bit if time in Louisiana post Katrina (my day job) and I have to tell you, our damage was minimal, no matter what you might see on TV. After spending the last few days captive to radio, it makes us sound like a group of whiners, wanting to know where the next delivery of ice or MREs is going to be, and to have all the politicians point fingers. I hope that message isn't the one that gets out. Most of us are doing everything that we can. Personally, I lost a couple sections of fence, and a whole bunch of frozen food. That is it.

Cmakin, you welcome; I am glad your damage was minimal. I have family in the Charlestown Area and saw the after effects of Hugo, my best childhood girlfriend lost her home to Andrew. I was in both of those areas about six months after each hurricane, the visible devastation six months later was unbelievable. I can only imagine what first responders must see. I hope the message that gets out "is if you are told to evacute you go". The people that chose to stay and then had to be rescued not only put their own lifes at risk, but the lifes of the rescurers.

I never view anyone that goes thru a hurricane as a whiner, all too often when people are told to evacute they have no where to go, no transportation to get there and very little funds to survive on when they go.

I cann't tell you my disbelief early last evening when I learned one of my girlfriends started her drive back to Phoenix from Cape May, N. J. on Saturday. She said Saturday wasn't to bad on the road but, Sunday she had checked into a hotel by 2:30 P. M. scared to death.

Ike's winds reached Central New York last night, they roared thru at only 50 to 60 miles an hour. I can only imagine what it is like to experience winds at 100 to 110 miles an hour. Many residents south of where my brother lives are without power this morning. I would suspect their lifes will be back to normal much faster than many Texas residents. My thoughts and prayers remain with the residents of Texas displaced by this monstrous storm.

Glad you are safe,

Patti