Cancelling Plans

[Smiling JOe]

Travel2Much---They sound like normal cats to me!

We also plan to come down ASAP since we had to delay this week's plans. Probably within the next 2 weeks and we will gladly volunteer to help with anything or anyone...We have pretty good barbeque here in Tennessee too
although it may be served with a big orange soda..

... as long as I don't have to drink the soda. I could care less what color you wear, as long as you cook some good Q. Wet or dry is fine as long as I don't have to cook.

 

[Suncat]

Memphis style dry with our own mix of dry rub, smoked all day.

 

[Paula]

Paula

Next year I think I would like to rent from you. How lucky some people are that they don't have to depend on tourism. I never felt like I was doing anyone a favor by coming there. I really felt like they were doing me a favor to allow me to come and visit their home. We have never been destructive or disrespectful. I have learned a lot by reading this message board.

Thanks, Physes. I'm sure there are many people who rent their places to guests in SoWal who welcome their guests -- including you -- with open arms, and we'd certainly welcome you and your family, too.

And I'm sorry to hear about your mother -- it's great that SoWal has given you such sweet memories. We bought our cottage a few months after my mother died and we now give 5% of our rental income to cancer research because cancer takes so many lives, including her's. The ocean and the area brought and continues to bring wonderfully peaceful feelings because of its timelessness. Especially after Ivan last year, the ocean and beach give me perspective and peace because it just keeps going and renewing itself in so many ways despite -- perhaps because of -- the storms.

Granted, I might be much less philosophical right now and more panicked if the eye was heading right toward us (it seems to have shifted west) or if the cottages blew away...

 

[bennifer]

Ok we have been coming to this beach for 15 years and it is a part of our family tradition, and a very special one just before our Mother was diagnosed with cancer in August of 1998. She was soooo thrilled because that year every single one of us were there -- and the "Conch Out" was our "home' that year....THANK YOU DONNA!
We have stayed in condos "across the street from the beach", "houses on the beach", and every year they become a part of our family. SO this storm and its danger are very close to our hearts even though we dont "own" any of them.
WE ARE PRAYING FOR ALL of you and your homes...and hope for many more years of our annual pilgrimage to the GRAYTON BEACH! and may all of our grandchildren enjoy that time of family after us***maybe they will own one and be as welcoming as soooooo many of you have been!
( And it is an area that we enjoy because of the family atmosphere and PG rated beaches! T*H*A*N*K* Y*O*U
Jennifer
beach.owner.wannabe!

 

[Smiling JOe]

Ok we have been coming to this beach for 15 years and it is a part of our family tradition, and a very special one just before our Mother was diagnosed with cancer in August of 1998. She was soooo thrilled because that year every single one of us were there -- and the "Conch Out" was our "home' that year....THANK YOU DONNA!
We have stayed in condos "across the street from the beach", "houses on the beach", and every year they become a part of our family. SO this storm and its danger are very close to our hearts even though we dont "own" any of them.
WE ARE PRAYING FOR ALL of you and your homes...and hope for many more years of our annual pilgrimage to the GRAYTON BEACH! and may all of our grandchildren enjoy that time of family after us***maybe they will own one and be as welcoming as soooooo many of you have been!
( And it is an area that we enjoy because of the family atmosphere and PG rated beaches! T*H*A*N*K* Y*O*U
Jennifer
beach.owner.wannabe!

You are so right. It is not the beach so much in Grayton as it is the people and family atmosphere. Mother Nature is going to displace some sand, but that is how these beaches formed to begin with. The white fluffy sand is what remains from the quartz, washed down the rivers from the Appalachian Mountains over thousands of years. The Appalachian Mountains were larger than Mt Everest at one point in time. They are the some of the oldest mountains around. Let Mother Nature do her thing, and remember that we will never know the good that comes from it in the future.

 

[physes]

Jennifer is my sister and she is the "nice" one in the family. Her post says what I was trying to say I just seem to come off as a little more abrasive. I am sorry if I seemed ugly I am just worried and our time there is so very important to all of us. You know when we first started coming to the area we had the opportunity to buy one of the condos at Beachwood Villas ( I think they were selling for about $50,000.) I was single and thought that I could not afford to buy one and still have the money to raise my children. Oh migosh how I wish I hadn't been so stupid, then I could be a homeowner instead of a "tourist". Well, I have to go and check the Weather Station again. Luck and prayers to everyone there. Thanks Jenna.

 

[bennifer]

ok I saw it posted on another thread here that the weather channel has downgraded the area to yellow--and that is good if it is true! (sometimes we know the media likes to make it up as they go

Smilin JOe ! your name has become a part of our conversations around here today and I do hope you and other 'natives" are gonna let us know how it goes!
I gotta get a Beachy name...
Jennifer

 

[phdphay]

Yes, I posted that. But a few minutes ago the red/orange/yellow zones for predicted damage shifted slightly east. We're still yellow on 30-A, but really close to orange.

 

[bennifer]

Yes, I posted that. But a few minutes ago the red/orange/yellow zones for predicted damage shifted slightly east. We're still yellow on 30-A, but really close to orange.[/QUOTE

Phydphay Dont guess "they" will know till it is done...I am in Marietta Ga and it is gloomy and 'bout to rain and it makes me feel very connected as we watch the winds blow and the rains ponder their arrival time.
went to the grocery and couldnt wait to get back and see what was happenin on the SOWal thread!

well we are all watching and waiting with you...

 

[phdphay]

Yes, I posted that. But a few minutes ago the red/orange/yellow zones for predicted damage shifted slightly east. We're still yellow on 30-A, but really close to orange.[/QUOTE

Phydphay Dont guess "they" will know till it is done.

True.dat