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What a week. I have so many stories I could tell I could write a book.... maybe I will.

Anyways, we managed to get that mess contained when I left this morning. You guys in California should be proud of your firefighters there, they worked hard and didn't give up when it looked really bad. You will have to trust me on that, it was worse at midweek last week than what was supposedly reported. That said, I have never seen such damage ever in my years of doing this. If any of you can spare $5 to a official relief fund... trust me they need it desparately.

I believe I will sleep 5 days now. :)

Oh thanks for taking it easy on the misses.

Welcome back. Glad you're safe and thanks for the great job.

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Congrats, thanks, and welcome back. As your reward, Jim is releasing FOF 2004 in the next few days. ;)

Congrats and thanks HFP :)

TroyF

Welcome back HFP.

Welcome back HFP, thanks for a job well done.

Great job HFP, glad to see you're safe and sound, say hi to Claire for us ;)

FM

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Well Jim is a wise man. :D


Oh consider that done when she gets home. :p

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HFP, I have a great deal of respect for the job that you do. Well done, and thanks!

HFP -

You are my hero. I cannot imagine putting myself in situations like that on a regular basis.

Welcome home!

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The gloves are off now smokey

Good job.

Good to hear you're back safely!

pure stud.

We in SoCal are very grateful.

dola.

How about a dynasty? :)

Welcome back, HFP.

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I was waiting for this comment. Gotta love this place.

HFP, glad to hear you're home safe and sound.

Goodwork and all that.

Back when I was a little kid, and saw the Smokey the Bear ads: "Only you can prevent forest fires", that freaked me out a bit. That's a huge responsibility to lay on a four year old! :)

Great job, HFP, you did Fort Worth proud. I can't imagine what it was like the past few days. I did a little bit of fire work in Northern New Mexico, but nothing on the scale and amount of damage you saw. Hats off!

It's a phrase that has jumped the shark, but you are THE MAN HFP.

HFP, write the book, retire early. Seriously, books on stories about stuff liek this fly off the shelf.

More or less it'd be cool to buy a book and show it to everyone saying "I know him! I know him!" ...Popularity through association is all I have...

Glad that you back, safe and sound... :)

Is it just me, or is it utterly amazing that Jeeber has been able to keep up his massive PPD count for as long as he has? I figured it would slow down at some point. It hasn't. :eek:

Hell, there's always at LEAST 1 thread a day that any one of us could amass 16 posts on easily.

Yeah...but over 16 posts EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR A YEAR????? :eek:

Hehe I really wasn't joking. I do have a few things jotted down from doing this some funny some sad etc along with other experiences just from the line of work. It has actually been brewing in my mind for a while now.

Amazon here I come!

My PPD should go down a point or two in mid December when I go on vacation to Accapulco. Of course, I'll probably make it all up when I get back and check all the threads that I missed. :)

Guess I just love this place too much (in an non-sexual way, unlike Marmel)...

WOOHOO!!! Here's my chance to catch you!!! Here I come :D

FM

Nice to have you back, now get back to Hattrick goddammit.

Welcome back to the 'Plex, HFP? Did Ahnuld thank you personally- a big going home party with all his old female friends that he never touched?

PS- I am a bit confused by the location you have. (Location: Hell's half acre (aka Amon Carter)). As someone who grew-up in Ft. Worth, Amon Carter is not really where Hell's half acre was, I don't think. I believe it was down Jacksboro Hwy, which is a bit north of all the museums and other Amon Carter crap (especially the stadium). Of course, maybe it's just that Dallas sucks and I wish I could be back in Cowtown and my brain doesn't work any more... :D

Oh heh Hell's Half Acre is the field in Amon Carter Stadium. It started being called that in the 30's when Davey O Brien (yes the award is named after him) led them to the national championship in 1938. Just some old TCU lore.

As another socal resident, thank you for the studly job you and your kind did for all of us! Where would we be without you?

Welcome back:)

Thank you very much on behalf of many of the people I knew in SD County.

Welcome back and thanks for putting it on the line.

But anyone who has ever been on Jacksboro hwy aka 199 after nightfall would consider it hell.

Every Saturday night it is the redneck parade.

I guess you are a young whippersnapper, but Hell's Half Acre is also what they called an area (aforementioned) where all the gambling halls, saloons and whorehouses were where the cowboys who came in on cattle drives from the stockyards used to blow off steam.

I've been going to TCU football games since the 60's. Heard the stadium called lots of things, but never that. :)

PS- if you ever watch ch 13 (PBS), they have been showing a History of the Stockyards show (locally produced, and not terribly well done, but interesting nonetheless) in which they talk about said area.

dola...

...'course, back then, all the kids would stay outside the stadium. Used to be a big old hill where some of the athletic complex is, outside the actual field, and we would all throw a little nerf kinda football around.

Didn't even know all those kids, nor they me, but it was more fun than watching the Frogs usually get their ass kicked, aside from the Norm Bulaich (sp.) years of "semi-glory."

Hey, congrats on getting home safe, and a big thank you from another California resident.