Re: [Fwd: [THML] Re: California fires.]/supplier

Amazing, David. I'm happy for your supplier, sad for the others. I
wonder if he'll be able to maintain his shipping schedule and get your
order out.

Kitty
> I'm forwarding this message from my supplier.  He posted this on the 
> Hibiscus list.  It's a fairly riveting tale so I thought you would like 
> to see it rather than just reading the answer from me.  I hope this 
> isn't just spam for you.
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	FW: Spam Alert: [THML] Re: California fires.
> Date: 	Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:28:13 -0500
> From: 	Micki <mickimouse@mindspring.com>
> To: 	David Franzman <dfranzma@pacbell.net>
> 
> 
> 
> FINALLY!  NEWS!
>  
> UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Black [c*@hiddenvalleyhibiscus.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:57 AM
> To: thml@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Spam Alert: [THML] Re: California fires.
> 
> Hi Dale and Friends,
> 
> This is the first time I could get online since Saturday night,
> due to electricity outages and being more than a little busy. As
> circumstances would have it Yvonne, the HVH web master, is here
> in CA on her annual visit to see the new cvs and enjoy life in a
> hibiscus nursery for a few weeks. We had been fine tuning a new
> propagation area and were in the middle of grafting next year's
> plants when we lost power on Sunday morning.
> 
> Since then I have been fighting for the survival of my nursery as
> fire scorched the surrounding area, and Yvonne has been there
> every step of the way. Together we and other HVH staff battled a
> blaze on an adjoining property that threatened to ignite a line
> of Eucalyptus trees that would surely have resulted in fire
> engulfing my entire place. We won that skirmish but would once
> again have lost everything if it were not for the fire fighters
> stopping an advancing wall of flame around midnight on Sunday.
> They shoveled a break some 10 yards from our east property line
> and it held despite pessimistic asessment by some of the fire
> crew. On Monday night the winds had shifted and the entire
> mountainside on our west border was ablaze, separated from us
> only by the 2 lane road that leads to our driveway. We watched in
> awe as the fire crews returned and set a back fire that prevented
> the bigger fire from jumping the road and racing acoss the Hidden
> Valley Hibiscus property. When we approached the road to have a
> better look a familiar black man popped out of the shadows with a
> microphone saying "Hi, I'm Al Roker (sp?), covering the fire for
> NBC's Today Show."  He asked us some questions and then went back
> to the firemen.
> 
> In the last 24 hours the fire has been driven east by onshore
> winds and away from our area. As the smoke cleared today (Yvonne
> never expected to wear a pesticide respirator for most of 2
> days!) we were shocked to see the utter devastation of all the
> neighboring property in every direction. We and a horse rancher
> adjoining our property to the north had the only properties that
> were not burned to charcoal for as far as the eye can see. The
> rest of the area looks like a black and white moonscape, with our
> little green oasis in the midst of it.
> 
> Though we had not a single blade of grass burned, we soon
> realized that without electricity we could not pump water from
> the wells and without water we could lose all the hibiscus. We
> raced to Home Depot and bought one of the last 2 generators they
> had but it was not able to power our well pump. Back to Graingers
> the next day and they came thru with a generator that can do the
> job.
> 
> The whole experience has been surreal, and I aplogize for not
> making contact with more people outside the area. Yvonne could
> not even go online to put a message on our website due to the
> phone lines being down as well as the electricity.
> 
> Tomorrow all of the HVH workers we could find will return and we
> will continue with normal operations, except that we cannot
> process orders placed on our website quite yet nor retrieve mail
> in a timely way (orders can be placed, we just cannot download
> them now). Wholesale sales continue as scheduled and propagation
> for next year will resume full scale tomorrow.
> 
> Dale, sorry about the cell phone. There is no service in the
> valley where we are located even in normal times so I can only
> receive calls during the times we are back down in Escondido. I
> will write you directly or call as soon as I can.
> 
> Another fire fighter died today, defending the lovely old
> mountain town of Julian in the mountains east of here. In our
> area 111 homes were lost, but many more than that were saved. 2
> people died, but many more almost did.  Our firefighters were
> sent north during the 2 days before the San Diego fires started,
> but once they returned in force they did a tremendous job of
> saving lives and structures. They had to let a lot of land burn
> but in some ways that will be better for the future. Our
> sincerest best wishes and prayers go out to the fire fighters who
> time and again stepped in at the last minute with decisive force
> and prevented a great tragedy from becoming even worse.
> 
> We will probably create some new web pages to document the fire
> and how we dealt with it at HVH, these to be announced in an
> upcoming News Letter.
> 
> To all who have written to Yvonne and I in the last days, thank
> you.  I have only just begun to review the hundreds of messages
> that are waiting, and will not be able to answer many of them
> until we are permanently back online (Yvonne managed this current
> session on her laptop in a motel with a connection to a dial up
> in Sweden!), but thanks to all of you for your thoughts and
> messages.
> 
> Dreaming of hibiscus yet to come,
> 
> Charles Black
> http://hiddenvalleyhibiscus.com
> 
>  >
>  > From: tamibon@aol.com
>  > Date: 2003/10/29 Wed PM 10:30:45 EST
>  > To: THML@yahoogroups.com
>  > Subject: Re: [THML] Re: California fires.
>  >
>  > I have called Charles Black's personal cell phone many times
> in the last few
>  > days.
>  >
>  > No one answers and the phone keeps ringing without an
> answerphone/voicemail
>  > reply.
>  >
>  > Not sure what to make of it. I'll keep the group posted if I
> get any response.
>  >
>  > Hope everyone survives this great catastrophe.
>  >
>  > Dale Dubin
> 
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