I got home today, after an incredibly early start - waking up at 3am for a 5am flight after three full days of the Investment Casting show/expo and meeting with customers and potential customers. Richy and I were really "knackered" this morning - fortunately I cam on home. As Synchro never sleeps, Richy was off to customer locations for installations and training. . The reason I like to take "first am flights" is that these days, there is so much uncertainty in air travel - over booking, flight delays, ground delays, weather, etc. - that I always like to have "alternatives". I met a girl in Houston at the airport on Sunday who had been waiting over a day to get home. She had started in Vegas, was changing planes in Houston - going to Indiana - and the flight had been canceled on Friday. She spent Friday and Saturday nights in the airport, the airline wouldn't pay for her a room for some reason, and all of the flights were over booked - no room to get her on. She finally got out on Sunday - the flight I was on. She also got airsick at the back of the plane right as we were landing - got up and went to the restroom - much to the displeasure of the flight attendant. The flight attendant actually had the plane stopped on the tarmac until she came out of the restroom. I understand the back of the plane was a royal mess. (fortunately I was up front on the 1st row - no, not 1st class - one of them tiny jets with a seat on one side and two on the other - with virtually no overhead storage.) Embraer RJ145 (made in Brasil)
Anyway, I had gone to lunch when I got back in town and when I came back, all hell had broken loose as a huge tree limb across the street from me, on my neighbors property, came crashing down and almost took out a car that was illegally parked in the first place. It must have just happened as I was the first to call the emergency services as there were live electrical lines on the ground. Like Gilligans Island - no lights, no phone, no internet - not a single luxurary. And of course, it was quite warm and humid today. I'd been after the home owner for several years to take down the tree as it was mostly dead. The limb must have been 40' long and about 3' around. It took out a huge pecan tree limb on my property. The limb was so big that it knocked out all the wiring on both sides of the street. Had the police, fire department, city work crews, AT&T, and Oncor energy on site. Cable company got the line repaired, but there is much work left to be done as when the tree limb went, it pretty much pulled down several telephone/electric poles. The car that was right under the limb that was being held up by a single electric line was in serious danger of being crushed. The girl that came to get her car later was none to pleased as she had been given a ticket for illegally parking and her car was towed. She's lucky that she had a car intact to be towed. Anyway, power is back on and everything is up and running at home. Here are some pictures from today's events. Unfortunately, the dead tree is still standing and if it comes crashing down, it will take out a large portion of my house. Actually, the house has another tree that is in very poor shape with a huge honey bee nest in it. We have been blessed with much rain lately, I understand about 4" since I've been in Indy, and the tree limb had gotten water logged. This was not as bad as it was when IKE the hurricane rolled through last October when it was a spaghetti mess of downed lines, down poles, etc. Trees are sure nice and they provide nice shade, but dang they can be a pain.
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