[AT] Merry Christmas

[Mattias Kessén]

Richard,
Looks like you've had youre hands full.

While speaking of christmas I stumbled over this one.
http://youtu.be/IcIxmgAOPK8

Mattias

www.rodjagard.n.nu

2014-12-25 21:50 GMT+01:00 Richard Walker <richardwalker at pobox.com>:

> A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from out here on the left coast.
>
> Have mostly lurked recently, but am currently using my old equipment
> assisting neighbors clean up from mud slides.  So thought you guys might
> find this interesting.  A brush fire in 2013 burned the wilderness
> foothill canyon and its steep hillsides to our west, and now every time
> it rains there are major problems as water, mud and debris rush out of
> the canyon mouth.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4496_nd9ig
>
> Judy and I live on higher ground and are OK, but some folks live
> directly in the line of flow.  Note our neighbor's steel shed at 0.42
> seconds in (intact in March after the first mud flow) and then again at
> 3:00 minutes in (destroyed, taken two weeks ago).  A flash flood of mud
> and water roaring down out of the canyon slammed into its side and
> ruined it.
>
> We've unfortunately lost quite a few of the Cub owners who used to
> regularly post, either from passing away or through leaving ATIS. While
> operating my old LowBoy with a box scraper and rear blade, I couldn't
> help thinking of guys like Mike Sloane, Jim Becker, Bob Brooks, Farmer,
> George Willer, and others.  Thanks, Spencer, you sure started a good
> thing - was it back in '94 that ATIS first originated using the Forsyth
> County server?
>
>
> -  Richard
>
> Richard and Judy Walker
> Monrovia, California
>
>
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