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JCT777 · #41 Postby **JCT777** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 10:06 am

Marshall - sorry to hear about the accident that your sister and her family were involved in. My thoughts and prayers go out to them. The newsletter can certainly wait.

Amanzi · #42 Postby **Amanzi** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 10:29 am

Sorry to hear about the accident MF! Please let us know how your sister is doing!

#43 Postby **wx247** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 10:35 am

Jacki... you were including yourself, too, weren't you? :lol:

mf_dolphin · #44 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 11:26 am

My sister is doing much better. She lost a kidney but she is getting stronger every day. Her husband and the their two boys were bruised up but otherwise are doing ok other than having to eat Mike's cooking :-)

The accident was caused by a drunk driver who ran a stop light and T-boned them. Luckily they were all wearing their sealbelts or it could have been much worse. The police estimate that the guy was doing between 80 and 85MPH when he hit them. One other thing that helped was that they were driving a Surburban, It's totaled but it absorbed a lot of the impact ... :-)

HurricaneGirl · #45 Postby **HurricaneGirl** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 12:11 pm

Marshall, I am very sorry to hear about your sister's accident but glad to know that everyone is going to be okay!!

southerngale · #46 Postby **southerngale** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 12:13 pm

Well, thank God for the Suburban and the fact that they were wearing seatbelts. As for the drunk driver, I hope he doesn't see the outside of a jail cell for a loooooooong time!! :grr:

I'll keep your sister in my prayers.

StormCrazyIowan · #47 Postby **StormCrazyIowan** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 2:55 pm

Whew, thank goodness!! :eek:

Idiot drunk drivers...

And yes Garrett, of course that includes me! :lol:

HurricaneGirl · #48 Postby **HurricaneGirl** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 7:44 pm

Drunk drivers belong in jail!!

weatherlover427 · #49 Postby **weatherlover427** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 9:41 pm

So very glad to hear that they will live to see the rest of their lives. Let's hope that drunk driver rots in you know where for what he did! :mad:

Stormsfury · #50 Postby **Stormsfury** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 11:33 am

HurricaneGirl wrote:Drunk drivers belong in jail!!

Absolutely ... a drunk driver killed one of my best friends when I was 19 ... and even worse, his father found him first, barely alive ... The drunk driver that hit him had left the scene but was caught shortly thereafter (within an hour), but possibly had the drunk driver stayed at the scene, he would have been shot dead. Chris's father at the time was a Charleston County Police Officer and he was going home from his shift duty that night.

This was extremely hard to take for his family, and my family since we grew up together. I was already mourning the loss of another very close friend that accidently overdosed on sleeping pills on Thursday and JUST returned from Tara's funeral. After the talk with my stepmother, we got a phone call from Chris's father informing us of what had happened.

Marshall, the newsletter can wait ... family comes first, and foremost, and I'm very sorry about this news. May God be with you through this and best wishes for a speedy and full recovery to your sister and family.

As for the drunk driver, well, I can't state my thoughts ... this is a family board and my words would be less than civil.

SF

Bane · #51 Postby **Bane** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 2:47 pm

It's past time drunk drivers were held responsible for their actions. Manslaughter charges don't cut it anymore.

isobar · #52 Postby **isobar** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 6:37 pm

And why is it that the drunk drivers are never the ones who are maimed and killed??? So many of them are able to flee the scene. :bad-words:

Mike - So sorry about your loss.
Marshall - I pray that your sister will make a quick and complete recovery.

Josephine96 · #53 Postby **Josephine96** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 8:50 pm

I have a friend who was killed by a drunk driver almost 5 years ago.. {1/25/99} and it's still hard to think about it

HurricaneGirl · #54 Postby **HurricaneGirl** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 8:39 am

My brother was a drunk driver and was responsible for the death of his friend Jason and almost was killed as well. This was 15 years ago and he has never been the same since. He is always depressed because of the guilt. He has told me many times he wished he would have died in the accident. I'm afraid one day he will kill himself.

#55 Postby **Stephanie** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 12:47 pm

I didn't see what happened to your sister MF until now! I'm glad to hear that they are all recovering but having your sister lose a kidney due to it is quite frightening!

As everyone said, family first!

mf_dolphin · #56 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 10:56 pm

Thanks Stephanie. She's recovering nicely thank God! :-)

As to the newsletter, my apologies to the entire board for this past month. Work has just been killing me and I just haven't time to get it done. To all of you who took the time to write articles, THANKS and I'll promise we'll use them. My apologies also specifically to Ticka. She did her job and got everything together but her production department let her down (me) :-(

weatherlover427 · #57 Postby **weatherlover427** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 3:36 am

Sorry to hear about your work troubles Marshall. Hope things slow down for ya soon Wxbuddy.

Lindaloo · #58 Postby **Lindaloo** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 6:28 pm

As usual I am always late. Hope your sis and her family are doing better!! What a nightmare that drive must have been to SC.

mf_dolphin · #59 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 7:28 pm

Thanks Josh and Linda! Sarah and her family are doing much better. The Surburban was like a low-flying plae of the way to Greenville :-)

On top of that, last week my compnay had a layoff which cost 9 people their jobs. that's about 15% of or workforce. Needless to say the rest of us have been scrambling... On with life. :-)

Lindaloo · #60 Postby **Lindaloo** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 2:59 pm

I bet it was MF!!! LOL!! I am so happy to hear they are fine.

Feel bad for those folks laid off. Thank goodness you are fine.

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