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 Post subject: a japanese junkyard
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Ive been gone for a while, if lightning strikes your house it makes a mess...

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that looks like my model collection after the movers got done with it..................

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 Post subject: Bettys's burn the best!
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My father in law was a Seabee in the Pacific building the Tinian runways. I asked about his experiences with Japanese aircraft.

When he was on the island of Japan he ran a dozer to push all the planes together for destruction. He commented he liked the Betty bombers as they went up like matchsticks. In fact, he liked to start his pile of planes to burn with a Betty...sort of like one of those lighter logs you use in the fireplace!

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let me add some pics to this post........

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Wow, now thats a bonfire!!! Cant see there being much left after the flames died down, except maybe some big puddles of aluminium!!

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Oh, so that's how you heat treat aluminum! :shock: I thought it was a more exact sort of process! :lol:

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Ugh. I know it was the thing to do at the time, but man, I sure hate seeing that.

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Ugh. I know it was the thing to do at the time, but man, I sure hate seeing that.

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No kidding! :shock:

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Ugh. I know it was the thing to do at the time, but man, I sure hate seeing that.

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No kidding! :shock:


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Ive been gone for a while, if lightning strikes your house it makes a mess...


:shock: Yikes! Everybody OK?


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The lightning strike took out 3 telephones, 1 modem, 1 scanner, 3 outside security lights, 8 light bulbs, 2 electrical switches (blew one out of the wall), the house security system, some of the house wiring and my Sony TV. but no one was hurt and my house didn't burn down, so it wasn't bad......total was just less than my $1000 insurance deductable....thanks for asking


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That is NO FUN, and it's not just the equipment lost, the data/pics lost on them can often be unrecoverable depending on how fried they are. Insurance doesn't cover that! :cry: Back up, back up, back up!!! On to a unplugged drive in a firesafe!

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