Hurricane Wilma

[aletheian]

Well Tubelab, my girlfriend had dubbed you "THOR, the viking god of tube amps." So I guess you'll be whipping out that magic hammer to help your neighbors...kinda like Magnus Magnnussen when that volcano ricked Iceland. I dunno what I can do to help all the way from Philly, but we'll be praying for you all.

[Johan Potgieter]

I have an urgent and heartfelt desire to say to all you chaps that were in whatever way affected by the recent disasters in the USA: Our sincere good wishes from South Africa; God bless, and hang in there - especially Tubelab with his apparently severe loss.

We are blessed down here to not have such occurrences, although other disasters have struck occasionally.

You have our sustained prayers.

[tubelab.com]

To all, thanks for the concern. Actually, compared to many here, I am in good shape. I just had a friend bring me 35 gallons of gasoline, so I have generator power for the next few days.

I have put a few more pictures on the web site. And I have heard, but not seen for myself, that the warehouse full of tubes and equipment is OK. That is a good thing. I may get there tomorrow to see for myself.

The plant where I work is scheduled to reopen on Monday, so I still have a job. I know people who are out of work, because their places of employment are so badly damaged they decided not to reopen.

Trout, don't be too concerned if you can't reach your family. Most phones are dead even in Miami, and cell phones now come and go, mostly go. I saw a Nextel / Cingular tower today that had lost most of its antennas, and a few were hanging by the cables. I couldn't get a picture.