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Subject:Re: My Vanagon and MASSIVE weather system in Alabama tonight
From:Jim. Felder
Date:Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:29:15 +0000

I'm a hundred miles north of John, and though it's still too dark to see
much, I am thinking we came through without much trouble up here. In fact,
though most of our watch/warnings, I was ducking out between showers to
pull my transmission. Flywheel broke a tooth. Ugh.

Jim

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 4:18 AM Eric Caron <eric.caron@icloud.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
>         My fingers are crossed for you.  Looking forward to positive
> reports of a intact van.
>
> Eric Caron
>
>
> On Mar 19, 2018, at 23:03, John Rodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> A major weather system crossed and continues to cross Alabama tnight there
> have been severe thunderstorms,  high speed straight line winds and
> tornadoes. Hail as big as three inches has fallen in places. Trees down,
> terrific building damage, power lines. Car dealerships are taking a
> terrific beating. One dealership has repoted in with 4 million dollars lost
> inventory, and that was just one. Cars and trucks are huge here and t his
> state has auto dealerships as big as any.
>
> My poor old '88GL Subie project is sitting out on thevopen underva tree ib
> the country. I haven't been able to get in tough with neighbors to check on
> it. Tomorrow will tell the tale. Hope no tree fell on it or hail beat it to
> death.
>
> John
> Birmingham, AL
>