Hurricane Matthew

[TimFitz]

Matthew is getting close now, we have the  obligatory hurricane CrockPot Beef Stew cooking, 50 mph gusts right now. The eye will get hear this evening. The two bridges to get off Oak Island North Carolina (where I live) have closed. Tornado watch in effect, my wife and I are safe and cozy and so are my watches.

[Geo]

It's good to hear your in a safe position Tim, I don't envy your predicament,

[parmenion31]

Stay safe timfitz , i hope nothing bad happens while matthew pass by:)

[RyMoeller]

Been watching this apprehensively from California.  Stay safe my friend.

[bobm12]

Hi Tim,

We got it already...it missed us for 20 miles. It looked kind of lost looking for your address! I was ready for anything and wearing my tuna can Seiko! Those watches are notorious to inspire fright on Hurricanes and such. That's the reason it backed up in the last minute! 

In a serious note, I hope it goes easy on you guys. This is a huge hurricane that has already cause a lot of deaths and wreckage along its path.

Stay safe!

Cheers,

Bob 

PS. It might still double back and get to us, they say! Not taking my tuna can Seiko off yet! and...I didn't give it your address!

 

[MilTimeCan]

Be careful gentlemen, stay safe, this one is reported by the Weather Channel as being one of the nastier storms.    

 

 

[Cad101]

Makes you glad to be in dreary old UK really stay safe peeps.

[TimFitz]

Thanks for the best wishes. Right now it's raining like a cow peeing on a flat rock, "As They Say"

On a happier note I just finished cleaning and replacing the mainspring on a Waltham size 18 15 jewel pocket watch. It came without a case, but I had a nice salesmen sample size 18 case to show off the beautiful movement. The case is just base metal but it looks good. Now I have to time it, which I am not very good at.

Here are a couple of pictures.

[bobm12]

Hi Tim, how did you guys fared with Matthew?

 

[TimFitz]

34 minutes ago, bobm12 said:

Hi Tim, how did you guys fared with Matthew?

 

We did fine, a lot of trees pruned of their dead branches by the 70 mph wind gusts, a few roof shingles gone , as one would expect. Folks who were foolish enough to build right on the beach have had real expensive damage. This was my sixth hurricane , so we knew what to expect.   And as I said I got my watch cased up so It had it's good points.

Thanks for asking

 

[bobm12]

That's excellent news! I'm glad everything was OK.

Cheers,

Bob

[OmarHaltam]

glad to hear that, we had a lot of rein in Raleigh, NC

[MilTimeCan]

On 10/8/2016 at 5:58 PM, TimFitz said:

Thanks for the best wishes. Right now it's raining like a cow peeing on a flat rock, "As They Say"

On a happier note I just finished cleaning and replacing the mainspring on a Waltham size 18 15 jewel pocket watch. It came without a case, but I had a nice salesmen sample size 18 case to show off the beautiful movement. The case is just base metal but it looks good. Now I have to time it, which I am not very good at.

Here are a couple of pictures.

Amazing how much quality went into these pieces.

Great restoration !

[thessler]

Tim

You anywhere near oak island? 

Mathew paid us quite a wet visit the other day.

Tom

[TimFitz]

9 hours ago, thessler said:

Tim

You anywhere near oak island? 

Mathew paid us quite a wet visit the other day.

Tom

Yes I live there