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Thursday 25 September 2008, 1:25 AM
When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.....
He didn't have a generator and the stores had all sold out by Thursday. He got on eBay, paid the "get it now price" and had it shipped overnight via FedX. They had it for him the day of the hurricane but they indicated it didn't seem likely they were going to be able to deliver on time. So he went and picked it up during the eye passage and they discounted the overnight delivery charge, he paid just the standard air freight!
It sounded fishy to me but I looked up his address and he doesn't live very far from Bush International. I know there is a FedX facility there, so its plausible. So if its not true, its still a good "fish-tale".
Power at my house was turned on this evening. Its sounds wonderful NOT to have a generator running!
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A good tale indeed.
How long did the eye give this guy to get to the airport, pick up the generator and get back home again.
I am in the fortunate position never to have experienced a hurricane, let alone the eye of one.
He only lives 5 miles from Bush airport so he would have had time to do it. He drives a pickup truck so with a helper he probably could have gotten it in the truck bed easily enough. The eye was only moving about 12 to 15 miles an hour and it was 50 miles across at landfall at Galveston. So he had probably about an hour and a half of good clear air at relatively low speed to drive over and drive back. What they call the eye-wall is where all the high speed winds are. So the trick is to wait till it passes the first time, know where its likely to move and then make your little "jaunt". Not something I would do.
What I would like to know is how much were they paying the FedX guys to stay at the shop during all the hurricane mayhem?
He's in Saudi Arabia right now working on some of our equipment on a rig so I'll try to weasel a little more info out of him when he gets back.
