[tcb] Re: PsycoBlooie
- From: "Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
- To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:21:40 -0500
You said that you weren't coming because you wanted to do Eureka this year,
so what is it?
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From: tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Mike Hayes
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 3:20 PM
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Re: PsycoBlooie
Well my house is on fire and I can't make it! Not really but I am on
call that weekend because I went to Calif for my grandmothers funeral
and had to trade with another guy.
You guys have fun.
On 6/19/2011 2:44 PM, Denis Dodson wrote:
> The flood on a 300' cliff is because it keeps raining here in Biblical
> freaking volumes. Not just rain, I'm talking shake the house for two days
> and then a two day break and then even more rain for two days. The ground
is
> saturated and the water runs on the top and hits my house and comes in
> through the concrete footings. I have been shoveling water out the back
> door. There was an actual current that you could see running across the
> garage floor. Things are still damp. It rained yesterday and is
threatening
> more today and tomorrow.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Gerald Livingston
> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 2:28 PM
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [tcb] Re: PsycoBlooie
>
> I'm still trying to decide about making the drive.
>
> That fire that Sammie is typing about is not quite between me and AR.
> It's around Hwy 69 and I travel up hwy 96. And it's moving NW so that's
> away from my path. BUT, there is another fire that's at about 1,000
> acres now that appears to be right ON hwy 96 north of Jasper around Sam
> Rayburn Lake.
>
> Denis, the pic came through on the list. Cool artwork. I'll post it
> somewhere too. http://texasvolksbus.org/psycoblooie/psycoblooie2011.jpg
>
> Does Chad still have the annual live-band party?
>
> Somebody find me a cute 20 ... no, make that 25 year old (so Haggerty
> will let her do some of the driving) to make the trip with me. It's
> gonna be a longer drive without using the truck to pull. More spots
> where I won't be able to hold 60+. Be sure she understands that in a
> '70 there's essentially only one bed so she'll have to sleep with the
> scary hippie.<grin>
>
> G2 (who is still trying to wrap his head around the idea of flood water
> getting over the top of that cliff)
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> On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:17:33 -0500
> "Denis Dodson"<coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> I hear your concerns and I feel your pain, but what about me? How
>> will I feel when you don't show up?
>>
>> All you people, listen. I moved up here so that you poor, hot, dry,
>> huddled masses people would have a place to come cool off in the
>> lake, drink a little wine, eat some good food and blow shit up. And I
>> just can't stand it that some of you miss out.
>>
>> It makes me sad for you, but mostly for me.
>>
>> Hell, this will probably be my last one. I have almost died up here
>> three times. How much longer can I hold out? Somebody said that I'm
>> not dead yet because God still thinks I'm funny. Well, how long can
>> that last?
>>
>> Gerald, put all your important papers and stuff in a metal box and
>> put that box in your bus and get up here before I pass away. If a
>> wall of forest fire comes at you, exactly what are you planning to
>> do? Piss on it? It won't help. You can be down there all running
>> around with your beard on fire, or you can come up here and have a
>> whiskey and watch it on TV.
>>
>> P.S. I do know that the drought and fire danger is serious, but I
>> still have to make fun. I have had flooding and water damage
>> downstairs
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Gerald Livingston
>> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 5:14 PM
>> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [tcb] PsycoBlooie
>>
>> Not sure if I'll make it. Only part of it is lack of fuel funds.
>>
>> The bigger part is the fact that we are having a California/Colorado
>> fire season in SouthEast Texas. Aerial fireworks sales have been
>> banned. But we live within spitting distance of the Louisiana state
>> line and I'm just not real comfortable with the idea of being away
>> while rednecks with fireworks run loose in the tinderbox around my
>> house.
>>
>> There was a 50 or 60 acre burn less than 10 miles from my house last
>> weekend. Over the past 3 months we have lost several thousand acres
>> within 100 mile radius of where I live. They had to close a major
>> highway about 15 miles away when the flames got next to it and went
>> over 100 feet into the air.
>>
>> Weather guessers are calling for decent rain next week. So far this
>> year "decent rain" has only been 10 minute knock-shit-down hard
>> thunderstorms or 3 or 4 hours of
>> "drizzle-so-slow-you-can-smoke-outside" crap that just doesn't count.
>> We need at least a full day or two of "who-left-the-shower-running"
>> rain. Medium drops coming down hard enough to get stuff wet but not
>> so hard you can see them bouncing back off the ground 6".
>>
>> Somebody needs to put a big ass overflow pipe due south from South
>> Dakota down into the lakes that make up the Sabine/Neches river basin
>> system. Send some of that stuff a little further west to help us out
>> and keep Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri a bit less wet.
>>
>> G2
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