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Subject: Pam

Author:
Dana
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Date Posted: 14:05:39 10/10/01 Wed

I'm really glad that you posted on D.P. because I was just getting ready to post here and see how you are. I read the reports on the tornado in the paper this morning, and I got the strangest feeling that you were very close to where the tornado had hit. I had no idea where in Oklahoma you lived, but that feeling was really strong.

How are you holding up? I'm really sorry to hear that your old house was destroyed. Even though you've moved on, it must be difficult.

I know what you are going through right now. Four years ago our community was struck by a tornado. My house sustained minor damage, but whole neighborhoods were leveled. Some of my friends lost everything.

I'm so happy to here that you and your family are uninjured. If there is any way I can help or lend support, let me know. For now, I'll just send some good thoughts your way.

~Dana

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[> Subject: I second that

Author:
Joanne
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Date Posted: 02:46:48 10/11/01 Thu

Pam, I'm so glad you and your family are okay. What a scary thing! I saw the photos Kimmy posted, and wow. Incredible to see tree branches turned into projectiles and driven through truck tires and siding.

Too bad about your old house. No insurance, ouch. On the bright side, good thing you aren't living there now.

Take care.

[> Subject: Re: Pam

Author:
Pam
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Date Posted: 00:51:06 10/12/01 Fri

Thanks so much for the thoughts! I just got power again, and I couldn't remember the url to BackTalk so I couldn't check in here until now. LOL. I was just looking at the pics on the website of the damage, (that Kim posted the url to), and was surprised to see a picture of our old house on there! If you want to spend the 20 minutes to wait for that site to load again, scroll about half way down the page, and look for one that is captioned "this house had only one wall left standing". Directly below that is a pic of three houses in a row. Ours is (was) the middle one with the big bite out of the roof.

Now that I have power again (and my computer LOL), things are okay in my world. The no insurance thing sucks, but we don't owe that much on it, we weren't living there when it happened, and we can refinance THIS house with the additional money to cover that one, for a lower interest rate, and pay a good bit less than our payments are right now. What we save in interest will more than make up the additional money being financed, so it's almost like having insurance anyway. LOL, I'm a rare breed of PollyAnna and fatalist. I believe that certain things happen no matter what, and they usually work out for the best IF you take the right path at the crossroads that invariably occurs. Most people try to take the "right" path when faced with decisions, the one that makes the most sense logically. Sometimes, you have to do what seems totally illogical (but FEELS right). Then things will work out okay. If we had behaved logically, we would have refinanced this house 3 weeks ago (lower interest than what we have now) and gone in and done all the work that the old house needed to get top dollar on the market. We kept dragging our feet and procrastinating, without knowing WHY we were so reluctant to do it. If we had, we'd now be locked in to new financing, and have a fairly nice house that had been destroyed by a tornado, that we had just spent tons of time working on to fix up. Now, we'll have lower payments, and a nice big empty lot that hubby can build the big shop that he's been dreaming of on. LOL. I'm great at seeing silver linings in dark clouds. Even funnel clouds. :)

Pam

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