What happened to the guys caught up with Katrina? You guys okay? What’s happening?
Hope you’re doing okay!
Hello Dave-the-Train! And thanks for asking!
I am assuming that you are asking about Hurricane Katrina from last year. Now we are closing in on it’s 1st year anniversary on August 29th, I do not get many opportunities to talk about it as before, but the subject does come up from time to time. We have many, many stories to tell about the whole event, so if I am on the right track I will be happy to fill you in on all the details. Just let me know if you want to hear of our Katrina experience.
In a nutshell we recently moved from New Orleans, Louisiana to Wake Forest, North Carolina in January of this year. And have settled into our new life here in the Piedmont area, which is central North Carolina.
Cheers,
Ryan
Cool Silver have you been to Spencer you are not too far from thier.
CSXNS, we are about a 2 hour drive from Spencer, and hope to make it there soon. We drove to Asheville on the July 4th weekend and planned to stop at the NC Transportation Museum which is located at the old Southern Spencer Yards, but ran out of time and had no where to put our three dogs during the tour.
We love it here in Wake Forest, NC.There are typically two CSX trains running through town every day, the morning freight usually passes through around 8:15 AM and the evening train seems to pass through around 7:45 PM. Someday I will get to catch one of them and snap a photo or two.
Well, welcome to the Carolina’s. I am is South Carolina and enjoy the area. There are some good LHS’s up in your area. Glad to hear you are DRY! Katrina was no fun at all. We did a benefit for Katrina Victums last November here in Aiken.
Thanks for the welcome! My boss just came back from a week in Myrtle Beach! We are high and dry for the most part, but have been getting a lot of rain here lately. Yes, we have many LHS here, it is a great source for modeling supplies. I go to Train Buddy a lot here in Wake Forest, and then there is Nicks in Cary, and A. C. Moore arts and crafts has a lot of stuff too.
hey im glad to hear that you guys made it through the strom ok. and it seems to me that you already have a great start on your new layout. quick question did you loose any trains during that storm not that it really matters but would like to know.
thatboy37,
We actually faired well with the storm, only had some downed trees and the roof had to be replaced because the Army Corps put a blue roof on the north side of the house. Our house in New Orleans is in an area known as Algiers on the Westbank, it did not flood on that side of the city. Only wind damage, some blocks near the house also had twisters, whole sections of roofs were blown off with rafters exposed. So we really lucked out with our house.
We moved because of economic reasons, I lost my permanent job, and living conditions in New Orleans are not the same.
Yea Ryan this is the Katrina I’m asking about. Glad you’re okay. Thing I hate is the way the media go off to the next disaster or war and we never find out what happened to all thoe people…
If you want to E mail me or wriet here (may get flamed for OT) I’d love to hear how you made out.
(Purely nosey really… but you could say that someone thinks that what happened to you all matters 
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Anyone else got a story???
This is your post and we are participating in an open forum! But, anyway, I do have a “model railroad” related topic to this Katrina post! Here is one of the many stories to come out of the whole experience. I have had people ask me time and again about writing down our stories and expereinces, so here goes one of them:
Date Line: August 29, 2005
Where did all the mail go?
In the months of July and August 2005 I had started watching eBay on a daily basis, and placing bids on select HO rolling stock, mostly DCC locos for Norfolk Southern, Kansas City Southern and Southern road names. I had just completed a renovation of the “train room” and was starting to upramp to building out the new layout, collecting and stocking up on modeling stuff and just preparing for the next phase of construction. My plan was to model the Southeast Louisiana area featuring the NS KCS and Southern railways from the 1950’s to present day.
The week before Katrina hit I won an auction on a set of three Athearn Southern F1 ABA units, and it was shipping out on Thursday, August 25th. I got an email from them saying that it was expected to be delivered on Monday, August 29th. On Thursday (8/25) Katrina was still a tropical storm and in the Atlantic, it had not even hit Florida yet, I was not too worried about it then. We are not really concerend about Katrina, tropical storms enter the Gu