Beaverton High School Class of 1981

Hi everyone!  I usually don't start a blog,  but this one is worth it.....

How many of you had Mrs. Tolly for a 5th grade teacher?  I know I did, and she is also the mother of one of my husband's good friend, Kirk Tolly.  Well, after many years of illness and approximately 6 months of a lot of pain, she passed away yesterday.  I am sure she is much better where she's at, but it is obviously difficult on her family.  So please keep them in your thoughts and prayers (if that's ethical to say on here :) ).

I just felt that I should let everyone know about it.  And if we want to do some reminiscing about her, we can.  All I remember of her is that she was very quiet, but she had complete control on all of us 'children' when we were that age. 

Laurie

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Hey Lisa!  It's so great to hear from you again.  I'm glad to hear you're doing well, and that you're willing to give up your gov for the good of the nation.  Was she your mayor when you lived in Wasilla?  How strange is that?

Anyway, hope you keep on writing!  We have all missed you!

Adam

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Well thank God that the New Orleans area will be ok even though it will still take alot of work to get it back up running.But Adasm now it's my turn now that Hanna is looking at the state of South Carolina and we ask ourselfs are we ready for this.Let's hope and pray that Hanna just goese out back to the sea and harms no one. We will keep looking at the weather and see what will be going on so stay tuned.Oh and let's not forget about Ike and Joesaphine as they too are comming soon to the U.S.A.

Philip.

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Well, hopefully it's not too early for a woo-hoo, but it appears we've dodged that bullet.  We heard from a friend who's a New Orleans cop that our house has survived the storm.  The only problem is a branch is apparently laying in our yard.  No broken windows, no lost shingles, and no apparent flooding.  I can't wait to get back to see it for myself!

That will be a few days before we can do that, though.  Hundreds of thousands of households in the area, including ours, is without power.  No sense in going back without AIR CONDITIONING!  Yow.  You might as well crawl into the oven.  It would probably be cooler than hanging out in my house with no AC.

It turns out that Gustav is a stalker.  It's now coming though Memphis with winds and rain, but it's not that bad.  Much rather be here for Gustav than NOLA.  But I'm ready to go home.

Thanks so much for all the e-mail you sent with your concerns!  It's great to know there were so many people pulling for us. 

Now we return to our regularly scheduled blogging...

Adam

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Watching the weather battle of New Olreans on the TV while nice 'n' comfortable in the hotel room.  Believe it or not, it actually looks pretty good because Gustav hit land as a category 2 storm rather than 4, which some news outlets predicted yesterday (TAKE THAT, BIASED MEDIA!!! hee hee hee).

If the storm is like it's being reported on the news, we may be home before the end of the week.  I just hope we don't see a report about how Algiers was spared the worst of the storm, except for one particular house on Kings Canyon Drive.  I can just imagine my neighbor's car sticking out of the roof our house.  Oh well, it would be karma for me driving my car through my neighbor's living room when we lived in Seattle...oof.

Okay, time for coffee...more later...

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