On Friday, August 24 at 5:15 PM (EDT), the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Genesee County. This storm produced two tornados in the mid-Michigan area that caused severe damage to several towns. The greatest damage occurred in the City of Fenton located just south of Flint. The NWS confirmed that an EF2 tornado had touched down and had torn a path 26 miles long and up to 0.5 miles wide through Livingston, Oakland, Genesee and Lapeer County, damaging at least 250 homes and businesses. An EF2 tornado, using the enhanced Fujita scale, is a wind estimate of 110-135 MPH in a three-second gust. More than 12,000 people lost power due to the storms
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Thursday, August 30, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
SK - Sam Kirby WB4HAP - Updated
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Sam Barton Kirby
KIRBY, SAM BARTON - age 63 of Halls, passed away suddenly August 26, 2007. He retired in 2006 after 42 years with the Knoxville Utilities Board. Sam was currently a member of KUB Retirement Association Executive Committee. He had a keen interest in restoring and showing classic Fords, being a member of the Classic Ford Association. He was also an avid boat racer, winning the 1994 class SST-60 National Tunnel Boat Championship.
A 1961 Fulton High School graduate who also attended the University of Tennessee, Sam had a lifelong interest in radio communications, being a ham radio operator, WB4HAP. He enjoyed traveling across the country in his RV with his wife and two terriers, Monday and Schroeder. He was a member of Salem Baptist Church.
He is preceded in death by: his parents, H. H. and Ottie K. Kirby; father-in-law and mother-in-law, James M. and Ruth Lackey. Beloved husband, father, and brother; he is survived by: his wife of 45 years, Debbie; sons, Todd of Knoxville and Christopher of Flagstaff, AZ; daughter, Jan of Maryville; and brother, Matthew of Knoxville; sister-in-law, Norma Lewis of Sterling, VA, brother-in-law and sister-in-law, James D. and Emma Lee Lackey of Knoxville; several aunts; nieces; nephews; cousins; and a host of wonderful friends. Sam will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved him.
Service 8:00 pm Wednesday, Mynatt Funeral Home Halls Chapel with Rev. John Holland and Rev. Earl Wilson officiating. Family and friends will meet 10:45 am Thursday at Lynnhurst Cemetery with Interment at 11:00. Pallbearers: Clyde Goforth, Gene Price, Gary Pugh, Jimmy Thrasher, Bob Tonkin and Mike Crye. Honorary Pallbearers: members of the Classic Ford Association, and all ham radio operators. Family will receive friends 5:30 to 8:00 pm Wednesday at Mynatt Funeral Home Halls Chapel. www.mynattfh.com
Published in the Knoxville News Sentinel from 8/27/2007 - 8/28/2007.
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Sam Barton Kirby
KIRBY, SAM BARTON - age 63 of Halls, passed away suddenly August 26, 2007. He retired in 2006 after 42 years with the Knoxville Utilities Board. Sam was currently a member of KUB Retirement Association Executive Committee. He had a keen interest in restoring and showing classic Fords, being a member of the Classic Ford Association. He was also an avid boat racer, winning the 1994 class SST-60 National Tunnel Boat Championship.
A 1961 Fulton High School graduate who also attended the University of Tennessee, Sam had a lifelong interest in radio communications, being a ham radio operator, WB4HAP. He enjoyed traveling across the country in his RV with his wife and two terriers, Monday and Schroeder. He was a member of Salem Baptist Church.
He is preceded in death by: his parents, H. H. and Ottie K. Kirby; father-in-law and mother-in-law, James M. and Ruth Lackey. Beloved husband, father, and brother; he is survived by: his wife of 45 years, Debbie; sons, Todd of Knoxville and Christopher of Flagstaff, AZ; daughter, Jan of Maryville; and brother, Matthew of Knoxville; sister-in-law, Norma Lewis of Sterling, VA, brother-in-law and sister-in-law, James D. and Emma Lee Lackey of Knoxville; several aunts; nieces; nephews; cousins; and a host of wonderful friends. Sam will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved him.
Service 8:00 pm Wednesday, Mynatt Funeral Home Halls Chapel with Rev. John Holland and Rev. Earl Wilson officiating. Family and friends will meet 10:45 am Thursday at Lynnhurst Cemetery with Interment at 11:00. Pallbearers: Clyde Goforth, Gene Price, Gary Pugh, Jimmy Thrasher, Bob Tonkin and Mike Crye. Honorary Pallbearers: members of the Classic Ford Association, and all ham radio operators. Family will receive friends 5:30 to 8:00 pm Wednesday at Mynatt Funeral Home Halls Chapel. www.mynattfh.com
Published in the Knoxville News Sentinel from 8/27/2007 - 8/28/2007.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Mother of Kevin Rice KG4LGL has passed away.
Hi all,
I just wanted to pass along that Kevin, KG4LGL, has lost his mother. She passed away this morning about 1AM (8-11-07)
As some of you know Kevin has been battling several medical issues of his own and just got out of the hospital himself a couple of days ago.
A online Guest Book is available to sign with along with other information. Please keep Kevin and his family in your thoughts and prays
73 Moe N4CQW
I just wanted to pass along that Kevin, KG4LGL, has lost his mother. She passed away this morning about 1AM (8-11-07)
As some of you know Kevin has been battling several medical issues of his own and just got out of the hospital himself a couple of days ago.
A online Guest Book is available to sign with along with other information. Please keep Kevin and his family in your thoughts and prays
73 Moe N4CQW
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Web page updates
Hey all,
As you might have just noticed or maybe not but I have done a major update to the web page menu and links section on the site. Also the Blog RSS feed is also on the weather summary page for a total site coverage. The left side menu bar will be updated most likely this weekend due to the time it will take to up the all the pages to keep the formatting the same on each page.
As you might have just noticed or maybe not but I have done a major update to the web page menu and links section on the site. Also the Blog RSS feed is also on the weather summary page for a total site coverage. The left side menu bar will be updated most likely this weekend due to the time it will take to up the all the pages to keep the formatting the same on each page.
- The old links have been replaced with the Weather Summary page.
- A website media player has been installed to play the NWS weather radio as a stream on the website. Also to prevent the abuse of the bandwidth the stream will reset every fifteen minutes.
- The ETSkywarn blog is now being displayed on the page now also, so anything added to the blog will be automatically update on the website.
- A new link to the web mail has been installed that will open in a pop up window so you can keep listening or viewing other things on the site at the same time.
I am also playing with the RSS feed from the National Weather Service on the main page to display current data from McGhee Tyson airport. The RSS feeder from RSSinclude seemed to work better as far as the last updated time seemed to be more realistic... but I am going to give this new one a few days to see what it does.
73, Moe N4CQW
NWS Weather Radio now streaming online on ETSkywarn.org
Hello all,
Thanks to Chris KI4UHK, who is the webmaster for Claiborne County ARES, for the National Weather Service audio stream from the 162.450 Weather Radio site. The National Weather Service stream will be on 24 hours a day and is available to anyone with internet access.
We are currently looking for someone who can stream the National Weather Service 162.475 transmitter also. I have tried to stream it but once I start transmitting or doing a weather net the audio is distorted. If anyone as a cable connection and a weather radio we can get you the software to use to create the NWS audio stream.
73
Thanks, Moe N4CQW
Thanks to Chris KI4UHK, who is the webmaster for Claiborne County ARES, for the National Weather Service audio stream from the 162.450 Weather Radio site. The National Weather Service stream will be on 24 hours a day and is available to anyone with internet access.
We are currently looking for someone who can stream the National Weather Service 162.475 transmitter also. I have tried to stream it but once I start transmitting or doing a weather net the audio is distorted. If anyone as a cable connection and a weather radio we can get you the software to use to create the NWS audio stream.
73
Thanks, Moe N4CQW
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