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Old 05-05-2011, 12:09 AM   #61
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Me too!

The insurance guy was finally able to get into my neighborhood. His job is to go to disaster areas. He said this is the worst he has ever seen. And confirmed that we are the only people who survived in my neighborhood.

I asked if it would be a total loss. He sort of laughed and said that it was raining hard enough INSIDE MY HOUSE that he grabbed a plastic tablecloth off the floor to cover his head. The roof is pretty much wide open. Needing an umbrella indoors is a sign that the whole thing is a washout.

So my mind is eased a bit, knowing that my claim is being processed so quickly.
Aw, c'mon. A little elbow grease, duct tape, burlap, and twine and you got yourselves a first class.... Disaster!

So glad you both escaped physical harm.

The emotional and psychic damage will take some time, but I know you both will make it!

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Old 05-05-2011, 03:43 AM   #62
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My former co-workers have another theory. They say Tim is lucky. They say I'm too danged mean to kill!
We have a saying here: "Weeds never die" (the "official" translation would be "Ill weeds grow apace", but I don't think that covers how we use the saying...)
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I want to thank everybody, both personally and for MobileRead, for the tremendous outpouring of support shown to DixieGal & Tim - support in all forms

.... emotional, financial, spiritual ...


whatever was needed, and whatever each member could provide.

You guys & gals have shown yourself, if I may use a cliche, a true family - able to come together when one of our members is facing disaster in its rawest form.

And I know all of us will continue to follow DixieGal & Tim's recovery and return to some semblance of normal life again. Rebuilding shattered buildings will take some time; rebuilding shattered lives will take a little longer - but they won't be alone.
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Old 05-05-2011, 06:48 PM   #64
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I came to this thread late, and so did not have to endure what amounts to the narrative suspense. Went right to the relief at DG's survival.

A block that my brother lived in with his family in Tuscaloosa years ago was demolished - except for his former house. And then I read about DG...

I have a nephew at U of Alabama, just graduating, and bizarrely, the last time he graduated (from high school) he got hit by a tornado.

No deaths around him, thankfully. How horrible that all of DG's neighbors died. That just has to be numbing, whether you show it or not.
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If you are buying Tim's book just to help them out, would it not be better to send them the money the book cost directly so they gt the entire amount?
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If you are buying Tim's book just to help them out, would it not be better to send them the money the book cost directly so they gt the entire amount?
I wondered about that, but reading over at Smashwords *seems* to say that there is no cost to the author; that all the $ goes to them. True? False?
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I wondered about that, but reading over at Smashwords *seems* to say that there is no cost to the author; that all the $ goes to them. True? False?
That's what I thought that it *seems* to say.

It somehow appeared to me that it then does not merely seem to be a sympathy

donation.

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I wondered about that, but reading over at Smashwords *seems* to say that there is no cost to the author; that all the $ goes to them. True? False?
Answer here, by the looks:

https://www.smashwords.com/about/supportfaq#Royalties

(Essentially, it seems like 85% goes to the author if sold directly from Smashwords?)

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and, gee in all this shock and devastation, maybe he gets to feel like a success in a part of his life.
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Done. We've been looking at the pictures ... it doesn't really hit you, down in the gut, until it happens to someone you know. Hang in there, Dix & Tim.
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and, gee in all this shock and devastation, maybe he gets to feel like a success in a part of his life.





That was highly unnecessary.




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What Dreams said. You guys gave us almost $1,000, but today Alfa Ins gave us a cash advance for living expenses. It would make us happy if you would continue to contribute to the Concord community of Hueytown, Alabama via the Red Cross.

I don't know how we can ever thank you all for the love and filthy lucre over the past week. But we do thank you all from the bottom of our hearts.

(Keep getting Tim's book. He is so cute! That makes him so happy when the email shows another one sold. He thinks that is going to be "his" money!
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What Dreams said. You guys gave us almost $1,000, but today Alfa Ins gave us a cash advance for living expenses. It would make us happy if you would continue to contribute to the Concord community of Hueytown, Alabama via the Red Cross.

I don't know how we can ever thank you all for the love and filthy lucre over the past week. But we do thank you all from the bottom of our hearts.

(Keep getting Tim's book. He is so cute! That makes him so happy when the email shows another one sold. He thinks that is going to be "his" money!
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just consider the source I was responding to and you wouldn't even question the reaction
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For every $7.99, he gets to keep $6.34. I think that is among the highest rate. If you get it at Amazon, he only gets about $3.00.
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just consider the source I was responding to and you wouldn't even question the reaction

Is there something wrong with *the source* that some of us don't know about?

I am confused.

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