Then as everyone was stuck on I-26 for 13 hours, a chemical plant caught
fire and we had a HAZ-MAT emergency with burning phosphorus. Talk about
panic on top of panic.
I am an ER doctor here in Charleston, and stayed in town. Had gusts up
to 80 MPH it was pretty wild. I worked last night during the storm -
treated a family of 5 who tried to use a portable generator INSIDE the
house and almost all died. The baby had a cabon Monoxide level of 39% -
near fatal, but they are all doing well, no sequela expected. There is
a lesson for us Potterers here about using things that create carbon
monoxide in enclosed places( i.e. a stove in the cabin of a Potter
during a storm).
The Potter fared well in my garage tied down, keeping my important
papers safe and dry. She was there & glad to see me when I got home
today.
Take care, and my best wishes for our fellow Potteres up the East Coast
who are being visited by Floyd right now.
Jeff Goller
P-15 #2068 "At Long Last"
Charleston, SC
-- "There are things a man will tell his bartender, that he would never tell his physician..." Quoted from Dr. Mark Piper