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dmpilc
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Initially Posted - 04/29/2010 :  20:33:52  Show Profile
Our daughter's wedding is May 1, day after tomorrow!! Everybody pray for fair weather in Middle Tennessee. We entertained the groom's family for dinner this afternoon and evening. His sister and her clan drove in from Michigan, the parents from West Tennessee. Everything went well. A friend has loaned us his 1964 white Caddy convertible for transporting the couple from the church to the reception, hence the plea for fair weather. However, right now the forecast is 40% showers.
I drove the Caddy home today; cool car. It's so long, I can't close the garage door! Of course, it would help if we got some of the clutter out of the garage.
Middle of next month I'll be crewing for a friend at the Catalina 22 Nationals at Wheeler Lake on the Tennessee river near the TN/AL line.
DavidP
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PO of 1984 C-25 SK/TR #4142 "Recess"
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 04/29/2010 :  20:55:58  Show Profile
Congrats. I keep wondering when we'll be confronted with a similar scenario.
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 04/30/2010 :  04:20:26  Show Profile
It's not looking good for Sat. Forecast is now 80% chance for thunderstorms, some severe, winds 15 with gusts to 20-25.
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redeye
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Response Posted - 04/30/2010 :  06:38:04  Show Profile
I've done many weddings in the rain. It beats the heat any day. Powder up ( baby powder ) and enjoy. It is the most beautiful day of her life.
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Prospector
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Response Posted - 04/30/2010 :  19:37:18  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
SWMBO and I had an overcast and windy wedding outdoors. It was great. Only one old person had their wheelchair blow away, and when the light rain started, only 3 people jumped to cover the same old person with an umbrella, causing a clash which sent the would-be helpers tumbling, leaving said old person uncovered. The rain lasted only seconds, adn then the weather was fine.

You only need the weather to be good for an hour out of the day. THere may a 80% chance of thunderstorms fo rthe day, but you don't care about that, you only care about the forecast for an hour.
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 04/30/2010 :  20:33:09  Show Profile
I'm sure it will be good. The rehearsal went well and the dinner afterward was delightful; great southern country cooking. Dessert was Steeplechase pie, named after a big horseracing fundraiser held here each year on Mothers' Day weekend - a chocolate chip pecan pie with a dose of Jack Daniels - awesome!
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Even Chance
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Response Posted - 05/01/2010 :  04:45:02  Show Profile
When I was father of the bride, a friend said, "Ah, your job is the three ups: show up, pay up, and shut up!"
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 05/01/2010 :  08:11:59  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
Hopefully you're having a fine day today. Congratulations to your daughter!
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 05/01/2010 :  09:55:51  Show Profile
For my daughter's outdoor wedding last October (in a mountainside meadow in Steamboat Springs, CO) the forecast was for 30s with rain and/or snow. 45 minutes before the ceremony, the skies parted, the sun came out, and the temp jumped into the 60s! We credited her dear, deceased mother who must've been looking down. I'm not a big believer in those things, but this was surreal! Hope it's happening again!

Edit: Oops--the radar looks very bad... It'll be a great day regardless!
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Response Posted - 05/01/2010 :  20:46:04  Show Profile
Hope everyone is safe and well! By the news reports, some in Nashville are not... 6-10" in 12 hours... What a day! My late wife's and my wedding eve and rehearsal dinner was during a 7" monsoon in 4-5 hours in the Chicago area (1968)--every town was under water.

I'm sure it was "memorable"--give us a report.
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Response Posted - 05/03/2010 :  19:21:38  Show Profile
David: I suspect you have some more important things going on than posting here... I think about you and your family every time I look at the horrendous news from Tennessee! Hope you're all safe!
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Response Posted - 05/09/2010 :  09:45:21  Show Profile
"No news" might <i>not</i> be not good news... David??
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 05/18/2010 :  08:30:04  Show Profile
Thanks Dave, and others, for your concern. We live in the southwest part of the county where a lot of the really bad flooding occurred, but we are fine. The worst that happened to us was being stuck in our subdivision for a few days due to street flooding. We have a creek running under our cul-de-sac street at a low dip. That normally 4-6 ft wide creek was about 80 ft wide at its peak. It flooded the houses nearest the creek, so we spent the "captive" time helping them. The official rainfall was about 14" in 2 days, but one of our friends measured 25" in his backyard rain guage.
Our lake was 14.5 ft above summer pool level and was close if not actually spilling over the dam's gates. Of course most of you saw news pics of downtown flooding and some of the worst neighborhoods. Saturday a week later we still could not get to the marina, but when I finally got out there last weekend; the boat seemed to be fine. The walk ramp was still flooded out, so I didn't try to get to the boat to check it out. May get there today.
We never lost electric power but did lose phone service. We still don't have internet service at home, but that's a minor detail. I'm at the "Y" right now using their internet service to send this and check email.
The wedding was a success, in spite of threats of being interrupted by tornado warnings, and the DJ not showing up for the reception. The roof on the 64' Caddy leaked, but the kids enjoyed riding in it anyway. They spent their wedding night at the Opryland Hotel, but thankfully, they were able to get out before the hotel flooded, so they were not caught up in the hotel emergency evacuation that occurred Sunday evening.
All in all, we feel like we were blessed, considering how bad it still is for so many others!
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 05/18/2010 :  08:37:05  Show Profile
I'll try to post a pic of the creek later but to give you just one idea of what we were dealing with, there is a fairly new shopping center about 1 mile from our house and the intersection is right beside a creek feeding the Harpeth River, normally a very small river. The water at that intersection was about 1.5 ft from the traffic signal, meaning that the creek had to have risen at least 30 ft.
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Response Posted - 05/19/2010 :  10:57:10  Show Profile
Glad to year you and the wedding came through!
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