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Comments: Lynell, you and Barry can argue that one out....When I was googling flood plain, I saw Houston's flood plains on the googling 'thingy'...Stevens Park as I remember it, seemed to be 'higher'. Of course, Memphis is called the 'Bluff City'..but then we have Old Man River/ Miss. R., and a few other tributaries around here. The Wolf River is very big.. If the New Madrid Fault(center in Missouri) ever does its thing again and the Mississippi runs backwards, no telling what it will do..but then no telling what will happen if...the area gets a major earthquake.. It's been a 100 + yrs...There's tremors in the area all the time..These scientists are always discussing the possibility.. If it happens big or little earthquake, it just might send the Mississippi out of its banks.. We use to have 'earthquake drills' in the Nashville Public Schools..I bet Dallas hasn't ever had an earthquake drill..
Comments: Linda, I was very sorry to learn about the passing of your sister. May God help you and your family through this trying time.
Comments: If I'm looking at this flood plain map correctly, Stevens Park golf course is in a flood plain. I guess that rugged creek that runs through there must go crazy every now and then. So, golfers, put your wading boots in that golf bag! http://www.dallascounty.org/department/pubworks/media/preDFIRM/D48113C_0190.pdf
Comments: The new tree thingy is an extension pole with a small, electric chain saw on the end. We had one that just had a saw on the end, but it was stolen last fall when our utility trailer was stolen from the driveway. Steve was using the trailer as a storage shed while he cleaned out the garage, and we lost about $12,000 worth of stuff we had accumulated over 20+ years. The scary thing is it happened on a Saturday at 10:45 a.m. and I was home at the time. The trailer was recovered two weeks later with someone else's stolen stuff in it. Skip, we do have a regular chain saw and used it to cut up the limbs. Barry, like you, we've got dangling limbs too high for us to reach, so we're still waiting on the tree people.
Comments: It is 'plain', Char...I finally googled 'flood plain', myself...Thanks.. I'm sorry to hear about Kathy.. Too, too many people dying of cancer..I thought that when I first moved back to Memphis and being associated with more than one church, I kept hearing about people with colon cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer..and brain cancer.. I believe it's the additives in food, water. Too many chemicals...everywhere! Smoking too much, living too close to transformers..(Those big electric towers..) I have had 'old' relatives that smoked most of their lives and lived into their 80's and 90's..What I know about them...is they didn't leave out nutrition...in their diet..It may have saved them..I've never smoked...I have a son that smokes?? At least, he goes outside..but I don't like it. He doesn't eat red meat, reads labels and we eat a lot of vegetarian 'centered' meals.. Every time we lose someone in their 60's or younger, from cancer, I think/ wonder what it was. I just know it's such a waste of a life to have to suffer like that and leave too soon.. Namaste...all. Have a good day! 
Comments: Just wanted to let your class know that your classmate Linda Sargent-Jimenez, sister Kathy passed away this last week due to cancer.
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Comments: Barry, I use 'Thingy' all the time..It works for me..So....is the plural of 'Thingy'....,'Thingies'.....?? This is a deep, deep question... Falls along the same line as plains and planes....No one has answered my plains and planes' ...question yet..Am I going to have to look this up myself??? Well, maybe so... I believe Lynell should research the plains and planes 'thingy', don't you??? 
Comments: Sharon: I used a couple of different tree cutter thingies on Saturday, but still have 3 broken limbs that are higher that I want to climb. I have a 12' step ladder and anything I can't reach from the top of that with my thingie on the 8' pole, the tree guys will have to get. Another name for the thingie is chainsaw. Another advantage to the tree guys is that they have that really big chipper to turn the limbs to mulch.
Comments: Sharon,Did you mean a chain saw? Just curious.
Comments: Thanks, Barry, for the tree info. My hubby bought a new tree cutter thing Saturday morning and was able to remove the most dangerous limbs. I'm still waiting for the tree people to call me back, but now I'm not as concerned. I still don't remember the '64 snow, but I do remember not being able to wear pants to class at NT. Goodness, Charlotte, those were fun times. And, I do remember Dean Dickey, but didn't have to face her.
Comments: I thought Stevens Park would be higher... Memphis lost 100-200 yr old trees back in 2003/ straight winds.. I saw 2 houses totally...split down the middle.. Memphis, Nashville and most of Tenn.., have beautiful old trees..I have marveled at them since first moving here in 1970..It was so sad to see them out of the ground and their root balls out of the ground..And so many of them were lost.. **The other tree that mesmerized me, is the Hemlock tree. It has lacy, long branches that dip down to the ground and the pine cones are tiny little things..I made earrings out of them, in the 70's.. The Appalachian Mtns./ Smoky Mtns are full of them. I think it's the Canadian Hemlock... I always thought Dallas had beautiful trees.. Austin and the Hill Country have shorter trees... The Oak trees there, don't lose their leaves in the fall..
Comments: Yes, Stevens Park golf course is still there and not in a flood plain/plane. If it was, downtown Dallas would be under a lot of water. I have a friend that lives near there and the whole area lost a lot of trees to the snow. Old native trees just rolled over and their root balls out of the ground. Saturday, all I could hear in the neighborhood was the sound of chain saws trimming trees, mine included. I got all I could safely reach. I'll leave the others for the tree guys. Barry
Comments: Okay.....Is it Flood Plains or Flood Planes.? .I honestly don't know...That was something we studied in Social Studies and I may have taught it to 1st and 2nd graders but I don't remember..I thought it was 'plain'...  It's been raining here...No snow..Thank goodness!
Comments: I once wore a London Fog trenchcoat over rolled up pink pajamas to a NYC drugstore for headache remedies for my husband. The hotel concierge was out sick. The wind blew so hard one of my jammie legs rolled down. I stuck my nose in the air and foraged on. The locals probably thought I was one of them.
Comments: I wore a Burberry trench coat over a Victoria Secret nightgown down the elevator at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee in 1994 and removed the trench coat in a meeting room. Can't blame that on youth. Enjoyed a decent round of golf this perfect 70 something degree afternoon and there were no plains/planes or floods in sight.
Comments: Is the Stevens Park Golf Course still there? Is it a flood plain?? I went dancing (in my 20's) with a guy..Bourland, who lived across from that course..they had an elevator in their house..
Comments: Phil, are plain and plane examples of those non PC words??? You have quick wit!! haaaaaaaaa!! 
Comments: Haa, Phil. As you know, 99% of my education came from taking depositions. I've heard engineers who know about such things say there's so much concrete around here, they can only estimate where the 100-year flood level might be. I just hope we're above it!
Comments: Lynell are those flood planes single seaters or multi passenger?
Comments: I did tennis and bowling...and then the badminton...ykk!..Now badminton as an occasional diversion is ....okay... Golf....no...and those courses full of artificial, chemical fertilizer...ykk!...to that.. Some have connected it to Alzheimer's..but my mother never played golf... so I doubt it.. You can love golf...Char. I don't like it..
Comments: Now, c'mon I think J WOULD wear or approve of a red silk coat! SHE would definitely approve! I had two trench coats, one black and one khaki with button out linings. Golf was a great PE course back then.........I also took bowling and tennis...PE was required back then........too bad it is not today since our kids and young people sit in front of a key board all day. I have great friends who love and play golf now. It gets them out in nature and keeps them active. Also keeps them off the streets (unless the name is Tigger). I am not judge mental about golf, tennis, curling, bowling, skiing, or any of the sports people love and do. To each their own as far as I am concerned.
Comments: So....that means they can't build homes for the homeless on Dallas golf courses.....Tsk, Tsk, Tsk..That was probably to stop George from building homes for the homeless..
Comments: Most golf courses in Dallas are built on flood planes.
Comments: My trenchcoat was red silk and waterproof treated. It probably wouldn't look right. J...wouldn't wear a red silk trench coat..If your's was khaki/London Fog colored, that is/ was more appropriate for wearing PJ's under and playing golf.. I didn't play golf. I've said that people that play golf (on a regular basis) should have their head/brain examined after death...just to see what is up there.. I'm with George Carlin on the golfers...He always said they should build homes for the 'homeless' on all those golf courses..That would be funny.. I did play badminton for 1 1/2 hours on Tues..Thurs. I should have had my head examined for that..! **Never met with the Dean...Missed that one..We did sneak a 'drunk' floormate up the back elevator so the wouldn't kick her out of Baylor and excommunicate her from the Baptist Church...That felt sneaky and clandestine.. Wonder if she graduated? Char...If you love golf, I'm sorry.. The trenchcoat did get you back and forth to PE/ golf...
Comments: WWJD? He would do what I did. He would put on His sunglasses, wear His trench coat over His PJs when going down to breakfast every morning. He would smile as He passed the hall monitors and wish them a good day. Yes, I remember our Dean of Women very well........I had to visit her once or twice for missing curfew by 5 minutes or so. She was actually very nice to me by just warning me several times. Obviously I was not scared enough of her! haaaaaaaaa!! I guess she was intimidating on campus because she never smiled and stared us down. But, I was too young to know I was not bullet proof. As I said, Ah the young!!
Comments: You-all(ya'll) are bringing back too many memories..I thought Baylor was the 'worst' place in the world (or best)...for hypocrisy!! Girls had curfews, boys didn't. girls had Pants Day, once a year, boys could wonder around campus...no shirt, unshaven, totally disgusting. Girls couldn't even go down to the dining hall w/o being fully dressed, make-up, with hair perfectly combed. My question was..WWJD?? The 'man' who gave the money for the Baylor Student Union had a note put in the cornerstone that said they would have to burn the building down if anyone danced!! So....every night, when we-girls took our walk, I would sideline and go to the front steps of the Student Union and 'Dance'!! I waited and waited for them..to burn the building down!! Then there was the little old lady-dorm mother in Katherine Alexander Hall that said to me one Sunday.."We don't wash our hair on the 'Lord's Day'!! Well, I say..."Wash your hair on the front steps of the Baylor Student Union Bldg, and DANCE, BABY......DANCE!" (On Sunday)
Comments: Sharon,As I drive around working to repair telco service,I can tell you there are thousands of trees damaged or down.More heavy snow is a poss. next week.I know tou didn't want to hear(here) that! Bottom line is , there is a L O N G waiting list.Good Luck!
Comments: Charlotte and Sharon, Do you remember Dean Dickey, the red headed spinster dean at North Texas? She seemed to be everywhere on campus spying on young ladies in her white Cadillac. We had a 10:50 curfew, we couldn't go to boys' apartments... I remember watching her at homecoming watching girls go to the boy's apartments. I lived in Marcus Hall and she dined there everyday. Once she starred at me really hard for wearing a pink sweater. She didn't say anything to me, but I went upstairs immediately and changed it. It was such a shock for me a couple of years later when I was attending summer school at the University of Oklahoma where they had high rise COED dorms.
Comments: Sharon, I remember that 1964 snow........don't you remember that we could only wear....PANTS..... on campus when it snowed or was icy?? haaaaaaaaaa!! Do you remember wearing your trench coat OVER your shorts to walk across campus to PE??? haaaaaaaa!! By the time we graduated the gals were wearing hip length T-shirts with nothing under them. I remember that I had golf on T-TH-Sat at 8:30 AM....many Saturday mornings I wore that trench coat over my PJ's to golf class............haaaaaaaaa!! Ah the young! We finally have decent weather here (hear) in Houston this week and weekend....yea! I was informed tonight that a skunk has moved in under our house at the ranch..........how deeeeelightful!! I don't know what we will do to get it out of there.........hopefully it is not a mother that decided to have her babies under there.(most likely)...Peer and beams are so susceptible to little visitors digging under to find a warm place to live...........yikes! |
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