Tex1
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posted on June 9, 2001 08:44:40 PM new
I'm sure the people of Houston, that have lost all in these floods, will take heart, knowing that their misery has provided joy and entertainment for some of the posters to this board. God bless you all.
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tinkerismyname
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posted on June 9, 2001 08:45:33 PM new
So we've gone from vengeance on Texas to vengeance on uaru. I am but a simple man! Tinker can bold.
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SaraAW
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posted on June 9, 2001 08:45:43 PM new
OK folks,
I've been watching this thread go way off Topic, I'd like to see it get back to it please.
Thank you,
Sara
[email protected]
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Hjw
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posted on June 9, 2001 08:48:57 PM new
Cool, Jt
Now I have a dictionary and a Bible at my side. 
Teach tink how to link.
Helen
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jt-2007
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posted on June 9, 2001 08:49:57 PM new
You are right TEX. I intended no fun at their expense. I am sincerely sorry for the people in Texas. What can we do individually?
When there was a hurricane in NC there was a site taking clothing, homeschool books, Bibles, household items.
Do you know where to find information about what is needed?
T
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Hjw
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posted on June 9, 2001 08:50:35 PM new
hmmmm
I'll see you folks tomorrow.
Helen
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jt-2007
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posted on June 9, 2001 08:56:39 PM new
If you find one, please post it. I will come back to check.
T
hmm, he/she..he came and went quickly.
[ edited by jt on Jun 9, 2001 08:58 PM ]
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Hjw
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posted on June 9, 2001 09:01:46 PM new
Yes,
weird...probably one of my good buddies.
Helen
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Tex1
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posted on June 9, 2001 09:10:43 PM new
Sorry! I didn't mean to spoil your party. Please, carry on.
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Antiquary
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posted on June 9, 2001 09:12:56 PM new
An interesting theological question. One wonders if it would be considered blasphemous for those who profess to be believers to play games with religion on internet chatboards. To sort of use it for one's own personal ends. Being agnostic, I am merely curious about it.
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hcross
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posted on June 9, 2001 09:28:40 PM new
Must be nice to use someone elses misfortune to promote your own agenda.
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krs
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posted on June 9, 2001 09:33:06 PM new
Tex1,
I started the thread, but don't need lectures from you. A good friend of mine posted in another non chat board about the flooding before the wires picked up on it, and my post, which is the one under the name 'KenS' was the first to wish him well.
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Posted by xxxxxx on Saturday, 9 June 2001, at 5:43 a.m.
Houston is under water. We have a tropical system stalled just south of us and we have had 25 inches of rain in 12 hours, with more on the way. I have never even had water in my street during the baddest Hurricains, and right now it looks like a river. This is bad....
Responses
Re: HOW HIGH'S THE WATER WHERE YOU ARE?????
KenS -- Saturday, 9 June 2001, at 7:04 a.m.
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uaru
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posted on June 9, 2001 09:34:20 PM new
Tex1 I didn't mean to spoil your party.
Your comments were very valid.
I lived in the Spring Woods area of Houston in the 70s for awhile. I remember holding my breath as the street would flood and the water would rise to the edge of the doorsill. As the rain slacked off I'd breath a sigh of relief. Of course sometimes some idiot would come barreling down the street in a cowboy Cadillac (big pickup truck) leaving a 1 foot wake which would crest over the doorsill.
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spazmodeus
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posted on June 9, 2001 09:34:32 PM new
Tex said it before I had a chance to.
krs,
Your standards seem to exhibit a certain degree of elasticity. In one thread, you berate me for making a joke about the death chamber, yet in another you cheapen the tragic effects of a natural calamity and the harsh toll it's exacting from untold families -- all for the sake of promoting another of your Bush-bashing threads.
Crass indeed.
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spazmodeus
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posted on June 9, 2001 09:41:29 PM new
Just wanted to add that the article you linked to prominently notes in the sub-headline that two people have already died as a result of the floods.
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krs
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posted on June 9, 2001 09:45:50 PM new
Unable to respond directly to a direct non topic address, all I can say is that there are two entirely different situations. One in which nature or God exacts a toll, and another in which man does. It has been the practice of the best of men to allow levity to ease their pain in the face of the work of powers from without their control, while it has been the best sort of the example of the meanness and smallness of character in man to MAKE levity about the misfortune of others brought by his their kind.
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SaraAW
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posted on June 9, 2001 09:49:17 PM new
Once again,
Everyone please address the Topic and avoid personal comments to each other.
Thank you,
Sara
[email protected]
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spazmodeus
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posted on June 9, 2001 09:50:58 PM new
It has been the practice of the best of men to allow levity to ease their pain in the face of the work of powers from without their control
I couldn't have written a better justification for my joke about Timothy McVeigh myself. Thanks, krs.
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krs
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posted on June 9, 2001 09:53:08 PM new
Once again, unable to respond directly--it may justify McVeigh's joking, but no one else's.
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uaru
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posted on June 9, 2001 09:53:27 PM new
all I can say is that there are two entirely different situations. One in which nature or God exacts a toll, and another in which man does.
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spazmodeus
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posted on June 9, 2001 09:59:55 PM new
It ain't flyin', krs.
I have long felt grief and horror over McVeigh's act. The thought of those children blown to bits ... the one they identified only weeks after when they found her hand ...
McVeigh was a power from without the victims' control. From without my control. From without the control of any of us. In one way or another, we are all victims of his evil.
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SaraAW
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posted on June 9, 2001 10:02:02 PM new
One final time: Address the Topic of this thread - otherwise it will be locked.
Sara
[email protected]
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krs
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posted on June 9, 2001 10:12:26 PM new
As a victim then, the crisis is over. Time for thankfulness, not jokes.
I haven't been able to get through to the mentioned friend. No doubt he's at his machine shop trying to save what he can of his business.
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bobbi355
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posted on June 9, 2001 10:17:50 PM new
I feel so bad and helpless when I think of those exhausted people trying to salvage the remains of what they've worked for all their lives.
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deuce
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posted on June 9, 2001 10:24:09 PM new
A woman drowned in an elevator in a downtown Houston skyscraper when she apparently was trapped by rising waters in the building's basement, police said.
This is perhaps one of the most amazing things I've ever read.
v/r
Deuce
spelling
[ edited by deuce on Jun 9, 2001 10:24 PM ]
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Borillar
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posted on June 9, 2001 11:30:27 PM new
"This is perhaps one of the most amazing things I've ever read."
More amazing than the Bible, Deuce?
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deuce
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posted on June 10, 2001 03:59:13 AM new
Borillar
...one of the... implies there's several.
My post's focus was the first sentence; merely stating how awesome these rains are that someone drowned in a downtown high-rise elevator. Nothing more...do you want to extract anything else?
v/r
Deuce
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Tex1
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posted on June 10, 2001 06:19:00 AM new
Please, pardon my drive-by from last night. It was late and my bed was calling in a very beguiling manner. KRS, seemed to think I was lecturing him. Nothing could be further from the truth. I would never presume to lecture anyone, as that wouldn't be my place to do so.
However, the statement, "I started the thread, but don't need lectures from you", does beg the question; from whom DO you feel you need lectures?
Jt, in answer to your question as to assistance. I don't know. Houston is a tough town and, while offers of aid are appreciated, we pretty much take care of our own. In a few days we will be back, doing our thing, which is, raping and pillaging the rest of the country with our energy sources. Since I don't know enough to make those those little faces, you should take the last statement as " tongue in cheek".
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uaru
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posted on June 11, 2001 02:33:15 AM new
Texas officials on Sunday said the death toll in the Houston area was up to 17, mainly drowning victims.
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krs
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posted on June 11, 2001 04:51:46 AM new
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/11/national/11FLOO.html
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