Charlie

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Interested friends,

Thanks so much for being interested in how we made out in PG during the hurricane. We were in WV for the summer when Charlie hit PG. Our house was not so lucky. Charlie broke 2 windows, blew off most of our roof tile and 4 pieces of plywood allowing water into most of the ceilings, dropping it in 4 places (Francis did a lot more water damage). He also destroyed our garage door and dropped the garage ceiling onto our Ford. We went down to PG right away and managed to get our furniture (mostly OK) moved out before Francis and into a rental house.

We scurried around a lot to meet with our insurance adjuster, find a repair contractor, locate a rental house, get a mover, pack stuff, survive Francis, etc. but we made it. We are now back in WV partly to escape Ivan and get out of the battle zone but also because Joy has a 50th high school reunion this month. We are tired but in good health.

We don't know how this mess will turn out, but with everybody's prayers we are confident things will work out OK for us. Based on the work our house needs and the number of damaged houses in PG we expect it to be 6-12 months before it will be rebuilt. We will be in FL (the rental is north of PG) for the winter and in PG whenever necessary to watch over the house rebuilding.

My guns were fine, no problems there. Hope the financial situation lets me keep them.

Al