[AT] Merry Christmas

[Gunnells, Bradley R]

Richard that is quite a mess to have to clean up. I feel for those folks.

I watched that video. Didn’t you have some Cat equipment? I was hoping to see something with tracks in that video aside from that little Toro unit. That thing looks like it would wear you out operating it after a while. But it is far less tiring than a shovel.  ;-)

Thanks for sharing that.

Brad

> On Dec 25, 2014, at 2:50 PM, Richard Walker <richardwalker at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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