Hurricane Ike

[rainbowgirl28]

Anyone lose their pole vault pits due to flooding?

[2-15-46]

mine blew over in the Columbus area!!!!!

[rainbowgirl28]

From Bubba:

Subject: Hurricane Ike Has Left the Area .....................

............... A BIG MESS!!


Two part note - ONE - we're alright with no property damage. MANY weren‚t so lucky. I‚ve gotten lots of calls and emails from people and it‚s been very frustrating to see and hear yet not be able to respond. After four days of no phones or power we finally got electricity about an hour ago. In the area well over 2 million people lost power so the cellular network became useless as everyone reverted to that.  Oh I could get your emails and texts but my responses would be bounced. To simply check my voice mail for my home and cell phone took 30-50 attempts in immediate succession before a call might happen to go through. If I did get someone on the phone it was garbled before unexpectedly dropping. OK ˆ enough of that. Keep your prayers with those less fortunate.



PART TWO

Our vault facility took a hit too even though the coaches did one heck of a job strapping down the pits. One front bun got the case ripped right off of it though the pit never moved. The rollout runway we got from Ron Morris at OnTrack was twisted like a red vine licorice piece. Both pits looked like swimming pools. Thank goodness they also put the standards away before the storm. I went home to change to work on the clean up, only to return and see that in those 30 minutes that Coach Green had the cross country studs do it before I got back. I did a very short jump session for quality control.



School is closed until Monday and I have been asked not to hold practices during that time so our Tuesday practice and Saturday meet is off.  I‚m sure everyone understands. So, see you locals next week and for the rest of you, thanks for thinking of us. Hope to see you all soon. Bubba

[Thats.What.She.Said]

mine blew over in the Columbus area!!!!!

oh yeah my cousin lives in that area and she was telling me about how windy it was and that she got 2 days off from school cause of it.

[rainbowgirl28]

This shed took a little adventure!

http://www.hcnonline.com/articles/2008/ ... 08_dam.txt