tornado on 5/8 in stafford county

ChocolateMilk · Post by **ChocolateMilk** » Tue May 13, 2008 11:35 am

dont know if any of you guys were affected by this. buutt i was. ripped the walls off both sides of my house on the 2nd floor. i'm looking for some pictures on the new's websites but i'm not havin much luck. i was in utah visiting some family at the time, and my parents were smart enough to go in the basement so no one was hurt, thank god. I mean it sucks, but insurence is really paying for everything damaged or lost. So everything will be fine. Plus we had a lot of help from all of our friends and neighbors. But the reason why i'm telling you this, is cuz i had a lil redskins shrine in front of my bed(they even mentioned it in the washington post). I had a darrell green bobble head from Mcdonalds, all of those medallions from burger king, Campbell jersey, hats, all kinds of stuff.. i was really worried because i thought i had lost all that stuff and i didnt know if i would be able to get them back. But when i get back from Utah and get to my house, i go straight to my room. and the wall was put back up but there was dry wall everywhere, insilation(sp?) everywhere. it was a wreck. but underneath all that, was every single peice of my lil shrine. nothing broke, not even the bobble head, and everything was there. i mean sure i had to dig under all the crap, but it was still there. i thought it was pretty amazing. just wanted to share that with yall

LOSTHOG · Post by **LOSTHOG** » Tue May 13, 2008 11:42 am

That's an amazing story. I am so glad your parents escaped without harm. Insurance can replace a lot of stuff, but it can't replace people. Now your shrine is battle tested. I hope our real players are able to survive everything piling on this year. Again, amazing story.

Cappster · Post by **Cappster** » Tue May 13, 2008 1:33 pm

Glad to hear your "shrine" is intact. I know I had to call my parents that night and tell them to go into the basement. They live off of rt 17 close to Burton's automotive and when I heard the news report that a tornado was on the ground between hartwood and falmoth, I immediately called them. Luckily for them, the tornado missed them. I looked like the tornado sat right down in the middle of the neighborhood when I drove by but luckily no one was hurt.

ChocolateMilk · Post by **ChocolateMilk** » Tue May 13, 2008 4:45 pm

yeah it hit my neighborhood England Run North... when i get some pictures i'll show yall.

JansenFan · Post by **JansenFan** » Tue May 13, 2008 4:47 pm

That's amazing. I had like five of those bobbleheads and Jackson broke them all before the age of 4.

NC43Hog · Post by **NC43Hog** » Tue May 13, 2008 4:53 pm

JansenFan wrote:That's amazing. I had like five of those bobbleheads and Jackson broke them all before the age of 4.

All players that should be cut or not GIBBS guys I am sure!

JansenFan · Post by **JansenFan** » Tue May 13, 2008 4:55 pm

NC43Hog wrote:
JansenFan wrote:That's amazing. I had like five of those bobbleheads and Jackson broke them all before the age of 4.

All players that should be cut or not GIBBS guys I am sure!

All Darrell Green. :oops:

Jake · Post by **Jake** » Wed May 14, 2008 6:22 pm

JansenFan wrote:
NC43Hog wrote:
JansenFan wrote:That's amazing. I had like five of those bobbleheads and Jackson broke them all before the age of 4.

All players that should be cut or not GIBBS guys I am sure!

All Darrell Green.

Jackson was probably mad because Darrell asked for five dollars for each autograph. :oops:

Anyways.... glad to hear all the family is ok. I couldn't imagine my house being affected by a natural disaster like that. I know a lot of people were that night. That's an insane story about your shrine. :lol:

VetSkinsFan · Post by **VetSkinsFan** » Thu May 15, 2008 8:33 am

I don't know if everyone is aware of this, but the reason it's hard to find Green (and Monk) memorabelia is b/c they bought the rights to their Jersey/numbers. I was talking to a collectibles guy and asked about why there's not much of their stuff out there. He also said Green is extremely expensive to get into an autograph session. Green's charging $250 for a flat pc (Jersey/pic) and $275 for helmet autograph and he was only doing 100 pcs. The guy didn't know if this was personal profit or going to his charity. Just a little semi-off topic FYI.

Sorry for the hi-jacking, I thought it was interesting when I found out.