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LaurieAnne
Unity Member
Post Number:
1455
Registered: 12-2001
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 03:41 pm: |   |
Hey everyone.
This is just a quick post to let everyone know that I have survived.
I've helped to move a boat load of computers to an emergency location and make arrangements for alternative printing location of our paper, and am trying to get all my paperwork done.
(I did my family/friend check before we got started on the move.)
But I wanted to check in and let anyone who may watch the news and see the massive storm system that hit, I am fine, my family is all fine, and we are expecting more storms tonight. I'll keep in touch on this thread if there is any cool stories.
Right now, all we have is a torpedo-load of trees down on houses, we got pictures of a car on fire in the middle of a store parking lot, and there has been one local fatality--tree fell on the car while they were driving. One of the reporters got some awesome pics of the telephone polls leaning toward the ground, getting ready to snap. Then she had the sense to get the hell out of there.
Anyhow, I have to get back to work.
Later.
LA
LaurieAnne
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Bill Nelson
Wandering Member
Post Number:
152
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 04:48 pm: | |
Laurie,
Hunker down. Be safe.
Been in several hurricanes and you are just helpless in weather like that.
Thinking about you and your family.
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Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1236
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 06:34 pm: | |
TAKE CARE, And do as Bill says, Hunker down..... and stay there til it is OVER!!!!
Claudia |
LaurieAnne
Unity Member
Post Number:
1460
Registered: 12-2001
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 01:31 am: | |
Well, the Sturgis Journal did not miss a beat. It's almost 3:30am, and I am finally home. Started working at 10am, yesterday. Let me tell you, it was an interesting day. The cover of the Journal shows the telephone polls almost touching the ground--leaning from the wind. We have a good spread on the inside with photos of damage. And I'll be driving around MY hometown a bit east of Sturgis to get the low-down on the storm's effects around here. See if I can get me a by-line or two. That would be cool.  Add to my portfolio with the photo that I already had printed (from the Shipshewana fire).
Two of the other papers nearby did not print a paper for Saturday. Adrian (not exactly nearby, but a sister paper), a 16,000+ circulation daily (Claudia will likely understand this one better than most)didn't even bother to try to find an alternative print shop. Sturgis is usually their backup location, and since we were down, they just decided to skip Saturday. IF (and that really is a BIG IF) we manage to get power back tomorrow before 6pm, we will be printing Adrian's Sunday paper in Sturgis. Oh, Joy. But that is fairly easy. It's simply a print and tie job. No stuffing inserts. And they send a driver to haul it back to them.
Three Rivers, a not-exactly-serious competitor (I've seen them put papers on the newsstand with the entire page backwards...had to hold your paper up to a mirror to read it. lol), is not printing a paper either. The pathetic part of that is that Three Rivers got hit hard. The Village Market (pretty damned big grocery store) had half the roof ripped off. Three Rivers alone had 3 funnel clouds before Sturgis even got hit. They have a lot of serious stories, and they will miss a TON of sales they could have gotten from doing a special storm edition. Fools. In this business, the name of the game is do whatever it takes to get the paper out. Trust me when I say that the post office has NOTHING on a newspaper.
Okay, I think I'm a little tired. I seem to be rambling about newspapers way too much.
I think I'll wash my hands (still covered with a bit of ink from labeling papers) and head to bed.
(Of course, maybe the exhaust from the generator got to me and made me a bit more goofy.........of course, I was goofy before that. LOL)
Night y'all.
LA
LaurieAnne
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Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1247
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 09:47 am: | |
I totally understand about getting the paper out, IN FOUR years, of course, mine was only a weekly, I NEVER MISSED and edition. And I am proud to say, never had my paper printed so that it took a mirror to read it, or even upside down. And I didn't even put it out dyslexic. Papers are lot of hard work, that mostly goes unnoticed by the public, but boy they sure do grab onto when you make a mistake. And to ever close, because of any huge disaster or events that happen, well, that is verboten, you simply have to find a way to get it printed and out. NO MATTER WHAT, and it is lots like the Post OFfice, everyone likes to bitch about what you do wrong, but they always expect that it will be there, filled with all the important stuff that needs to be known.
I saw a few clips on the news about all the damage and it looks horrific. Glad you guys got some really good pics of it, you know that those pics that people risk life and limb to get, offer healing help in the biggest ways possible, many times. Sorry about the other towns around you, though.
Good going, sweetie, get some rest and then back to the grind, take care and don't tire yourself out too much. Life will go on and the paper will still be there..... but you have to take it a bit easy, or you won't. I can't tell you how many times I was up all night with a printer or computer that wouldn't do what it was supposed to do and absolutely tearing my hair out cause I felt such a big responsibility towards having the very latest and up to the minute news, even in my weekly. There were many nights at 1:00 am and delivery was that day, late morning, that I wanted to throw my puter or the printer out the window, and if I would have been strong enough, I surely would have done just that, but then who would print or run the paper......??? 4 years and never an edition missed, done all by myself.
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