Posted: 3/14/2008 6:33:38 PM EDT
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Rough weather moving through. Just hoping the hometown gang is safe. -Mrs.Monk |
| I haven't heard of any injuries yet. Everyone I know is safe, but it looks like the tornado trashed the area around CNN/Centennial Park area. I'm not entirely sure if I'm looking forward to seeing the damage when I go into work on Monday. According to people in our ops center there wasn't any major damage to the office building. |
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We were in Kennestone with our 1-day-old baby girl. She was breech and kicked a hole in her amniotic sac 4 weeks before the due date, but she and mommy are both healthy after a c-section delivery. The little one feels much better than mommy does, as a matter of fact, but both are making it through this ok with only a little crying. I just came home to sleep while my parents and in-laws are with them. All we saw of the storm was really bad rain blowing against the glass of our room and bright lightning with loud thunder. I stood next to the nursery where they were doing a car seat test (to see if the seat fits her 6 lb, 8 oz frame ok), and they have a TV there. I watched 11 Alive there around 1AM and saw the Mayor Franklin address - looked bad (both her public speaking skills and the damage to downtown). My priorities have totally changed now. I was supposed to go buy a new rifle or shotgun before the baby got here, but now - who cares, you know? |
Glad to hear something good came out of all this.  Hope mom and baby both are doing well!!! CONGRATS!! 
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Congrats! Glad everything went well! Our baby girl is due in 7 weeks. |
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Thank you, everyone, for the well wishes. Everything is still great with mother and baby, but the baby had to be put under the blue lights for jaundice earlier (while I was sleeping). They say it's no big deal, plus both my wife and me were jaundiced when we were born, and we turned out fine. Got to go - heading back the the hospital to be the baby's automatic feeder and diaper changer. At least I got 5 hours sleep this time, so it should be better than the last two days (I hope). I see from the other threads and my constantly-blaring weather radio by the bed that we had some more tornado action. At least everyne here in the HTF is ok (so far, anyway). Take care, everyone! |
| Drove on GA-129 from I-20 to Macon, when I was between Gray and Eatonton I drove through an area that had just been hit by a supercell. Very eery, golfball sized hail covering the ground, the road was full of pine needles and branches, there was a thick fog from the hail melting and cooling the air, and a VERY strong smell of pine which I haven't smelled since I worked in lumber mill. I saw several cars that were just beat to hell by the hail and several in the ditch. |
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Glad to hear a new engineer is here! As for me, I spent all day in the garage with GAjeep threading bbls. Well, except for the one I screwed up. We got to talking and I cut his glock bbl down to within 20 thou of the relief cut before the brain kicked back in. Nothing for it but to cut it off and make it a snubby. Tried to buy it off him but he wouldn't have it. Ah well, live and learn...and we weren't even drinking! We did have to run to the basement once when the local sirens went off, but though it rained hard and hailed impressively, it never got windy. |
| i went to the gun show in cobb today and it was a bit crazy at times. I missed the 75 exit looking at all of the busted out glass and had to double back. When i finally decided to leave i walked outside and tried to crank my truck...it was dead. as i was standing there trying to figure out what to do (4 hours from home) The tornado sirens went off. ohwell someone jumped me off and i headed home on 285 because they were talking about baseball size hail in downtown. It wasn't that bad where i was but i guess i got lucky |
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I woke my baby girl from her nap and we hid in the laundry room while Lawrenceville had the Tornado warning. Right after the storm went by the sky was clear blue right over our area for about 15 minutes. Eng, congrats on the new baby. Post pics when you get the chance. Both of our kids were C-section. One was due to hypertension the other was due to placenta attaching right over the cervix. Makes it a bit difficult to deliver that way. 2nd one had jaundice. She's fine. |
Thank you. We got to come home today! Yay - hospitals are very uncomfortable! She was only borderline bad enough to need the blue lamps, and her bilirubin level was low enough today that they said she would be fine. I have pics and will update as soon as I can get them off my camera phone. I'll start a new thread. I've got to get the heavy baby furniture moved into the nursery before Dad leaves, then I'll get them uploaded. The lady cleaning our room as we were being discharged kept coming back and looking at our baby. She said she was the prettiest baby she had ever seen, and I said, "oh, thank you - that's very nice of you to say." She said, "no, I'm serious, I ain't seen no baby as pretty as that one ever." Haha!  We think so too, but it's really nice of a stranger to say and mean it.I am very proud everyone appears to be okay. People died, and CNN is acting like their leaking roof is the end of the world, based on what I saw on TV in the hospital.  Thank God everyone here in the HTF (so far as we know) is okay, and CNN can get their precious roof fixed and those blue tarps off their equipment they keep showing.
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