I did get it Friday afternoon, but my excitement was definitely muffled. I live in SE Ok, and thursday night a very destructive tornado came thru my old home town. The road I lived on had 8 houses. All eight which included my moms(the house I grew up in), my brothers, and my nephews. Were destoyed by a 3 vortex tornado. My mom's and brothers lost their roofs, my nephews was picked up and set down back on the foundation. Out of the 60-70+ trees on my mom's ten acres all but 8 or 9 were untouched the rest were uprooted or split into splinters. One in particular was a huge 400+ year old red oak that was uprooted. Fortunately, my mother wasn't home but my brother had went to check on her and had parked in her carport to avoid the hail. It was only 10 steps from the house. When it hit, he watched the tornado take pieces of her roof before it finally lifted it completely off. The angels were definitely watching cause there is a huge oak in her back yard, if it had fallen, it would have crushed the carport with him and his family in the car. We were very fortunate that night, but really haven't felt like swinging a detector since then. I haven't even put it together yet. There were other close friends that lived on the road and some lost everything. Its hard to think about 22 seconds of wind could destroy so much. Thanks everyone for the help in the detector, I will eventually get to cleaning up the local lake...Born Free said:
thanks. I hope you get your machine down. I had a X70 for 3 yrs and enjoyed it. I have been going out with Etrac and doing good. Found several silver coins and a gold ring. Today wnet for 2 hours found a silver rosy and 4 wheats. Ready to go back.... Thanks everyone for the condolences. GHbudrow said:
