clark33 Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Still can't see how to do cut & paste. Anyway, thank you for concern. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted December 8, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 8, 2013 the RMweb has not been working too well of late. This might have something to do with software updates. When posting a new topic or replying first choose the More reply options (bottom right) and you may have to switch the BBCode on top left be sure to switch it back off before posting though! Hope this is of use. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Good to you back... Samar took a real pasting - we thought you wouldn't get power until Christmas. As the news has faded from the TV's in the UK and USA; just how is the general situation right now? Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
clark33 Posted December 9, 2013 Author Share Posted December 9, 2013 Pete, yes, you saw more than me on TV. I'm 250 km/5hrs north of Tacloban, the high wind and rain was with me 6-11 a.m. on that day. In my riverside compound I watched the river rise and rise but it didn't flood me. My concrete house was OK, whereas outside electricity poles blown down and few roofs blown off the flimsily built wooden houses on stilts. Electricity back after 3 weeks, I used a gen-set 3 hours a day. Internet access came and went every few days from the cell mast across the river. But the trains are OK. Whilst off-line I edited way-bills for anthracite traffic from NE Pennsylvania mines using CNJ D&H 55T hoppers to a power station in Key West, Fla. Also limestone in 70T hoppers, SAL, from a quarry on Flagler Key, Fla to US Steel in Pittsburgh. All that Florida Keys stuff is based on my fiction of SAL running rights on the FEC extension not abandoned after the 19335 hurricanee. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
clark33 Posted December 9, 2013 Author Share Posted December 9, 2013 From www.facebook.com/ClarkGuestHouseCatarman hobby room is ground floor riverside. . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 We lost power for 9 days after "Sandy", like you no problem with the house but power pole snapped in half on our block after trees tugged the power lines on the next block. Then they ran out of power poles.... Our pole was eventually replaced by a team (and pole) from Ontario close to a thousand mils away, they came. Cell phones still worked until the cell towers gradually lost battery back up. Best contact was via "texting". Glad everything looks good with you. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Phil - glad you came through (relatively) unscathed - and that things are heading back towards normality Best Jack Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
clark33 Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 Cheers for your concerns. ? How is it now? The international news on BBC/CNN/NBC/CBS no longer reports it; the national news shows the political squabbling, the aid agencies struggling. Without doubt a very destructive typhoon. Still shortages here of fresh coffee and whole-meal bread. Dunno why, the ferry from Luzon still runs. I'm of an age where Nescafe is yuk! and having grown up in the rural home counties in UK, to me the local bread is tasteless. Anyway, back to railways, am so pleased that the Oz hobby shop, NMRS www.northmodelrailroadsupplies.com can supply the hopper cars, I want; being Bowser/Stewart 55T fish-belly and 70T rib-side/off-set. They'll be here on the next sea-mail box. The current sea-mail box should be here in a few weeks, one thing will be a fresh Digitrax Zephyr, then I can some trains. I know that you have to run trains otherwise you procrastinate.. - Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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