Hurricane Ophelia Continues To Threaten OBX

It looks like Hurricane Ophelia is going to take a track just west of the OBX after making landfall south of Hatteras. It is then going to go back over the Atlantic Ocean and threaten the northeast. As everybody knows these tracks can change very quickly, and hopefully it will and just stay out over the Atlantic. I have enclosed a 5 day tracking map that I got the Weather Underground. Well the Green Bay Packers season din't get off to a good start yesterday with the Packers falling 17-3 to the Detroit Lions, and to make matters worst we probably lost our best wide reciever for the season, Javon Walker has an ACL injury. The Redskins got there season of to a good start with a 9-7 victory over the Bears, the Skins defense played very well but there offense looked pretty dismal. I think I am going to have to wear my sweatshirt for a couple of hours this morning, it is a cool 57 this morning. MICKEY

NFL And Other

Well the rest of the tams in the NFL start play today, Green Bay is at Detroit-3 and Chicago is at Washington-5.5. I think it could be a long season for the Packers this year, there defense is still not very good and the offense isn't as strong as it used to be, but we do still have Favre and he can make a difference in allot of games. I think the Redskins will do better this year but I son't know if it will be good enough to get them in the plyoffs though. There were a couple of pretty big upsets in college yesterday with Iowa St beating Iowa 23-3 and Notre Dame defeating Michigan 17-10 at The Big House. In the ACC Va. Tech, Clemson, and Ga. Tech all won conference games, and BC and Fla. St won at of conference games, while Wake lost to Nebraska. ECU plays at Wake next week and after seeing Wake play twice now I think ECU might have shot to beat Wake. It looked like there for a while yesterday that Scott and Joy were going to have to go out and but USC visor hat to honor the old fottball coach, but GA pulled out a 17-15 win over South Carolina. It looked like the fans at Ga were concerned as well. I have posted a couple of photos from that game that the AP took. While Kurt Busch won the last race before the chase last night at RIR, and Ryan Newman got the final spot to get into the chase. E Sadler and Jeff Gordon didnt't make it. Well it looks like Hurricane Ophelia is making a turn towards to the OBX, they don't think it is going to strengthen to much more but the track they have it on now passes right over the OBX. I looked at a few cams from the OBX this morning and the Atlantic does look a little angry. MICKEY

Colonials Defeat Brunswick 40-6

The CH Colonials got a big victory last night defeating the Brunswick Bulldogs 40-6. The first half was a bit sloppy but the Colonials dominated the secon half, the Colonials will travel to Park View South Hill next week. In other high school action in the area Petersburg 44 George Wythe 0, Thomas Dale 27 Manchester 13, Varina 33 Hopewell 0, LC Bird 35 Matoaca 18, Clover Hill 35 Prince George 0, Halifax County 41 Dinwidddie 6, and Meadowbrook 41 Midlothian 6. In NC Cape Hatteras 20 Mattaamuskeet 6 and Manteo 38 Roanoke 0. I have posted some photos that Scott took at the Crawford County and Greenville game last night but I don't know who won the game. Keith tell Andrew that I caught him a little Colonial football that the cheerleaders were throwing out last night. There are some big college football games today and some big ACC games also. Here are some of the big ones Notre Dame at Michigan-7, Va Tech-20 at Duke, Clemson at Maryland-2, Army at Boston College-27, UNC at Ga Tech-12, South Carolina at Ga-18, Wake Forest at Nebraska-6, and Texas at Ohio St-1. Also tonight is the last race to get in the chase for the Nextel Cup, it looks like it is going to be a busy day on the remote control. The price of gas is now 2.89 at Sheetz. MICKEY

Internet Was Down This Morning

I didn't have a blog update this morning because the internet was down. So as you can gather my day didn't get off to the best of starts, but has gone pretty good sense then. CH open it's football season tonight at home against the Brunswick Bulldogs, also in the are Manchester is at Thomas Dale, and in another big game LC Bird is at Matoaca. In Crawford County plays against Greenville. I have enclosed a photo that I received of the Tussing Tiger Mascot pruodly wearing his CH hat in room 146. Also in closing I might not have got injured wed night playing softball, but I have been very sore the last two days and my hamstrings are very tight. I will have some high school football updates later. MICKEY

Race Weekend At RIR

Well it's race weekend this at RIR, the trucks run tonight, Busch cars friday, and the Nextel Cup Series on saturday night. I am not going to any of the races but Al will be taking photos at all three, also there is an IROC race mixed in also. The preice of gas has gone down about .20 the last two days and is now 2.99 at the pump here in CH, hopefully it will continue to drop over the next few days. Well the Taylor Street Gryphons defeated Crawfor County Middle School 22-0 yesterday, I have enclosed some photos of the game and a link you can go to to see some more photos that Scott took. The link is http://community.webshots.com/album/445378040pPmJua there lots of photos from the game there. There is a little bit of trunle in the tropics with TS Ophelia it is suppose to stay of the Fla until at tuesday or wed, but it is suppose to become a Hurricane but they don't were it is going to go in the long run. Well I am off to work. MICKEY

ICU Sweeps Double Header

The ICU softball team got of to a good start on the season tonight sweeping a DH 15-5 and 18-15 over The Dynasty. The first game was never in doubt, but the second game was a different story. It didn't take me long to get into the game the batter hits one right to me and I thru him out by a step and he was a speedster. I went 3-7 on the evening and I got on base once on a error. I had 10-12 plays at ss with no errors tonight. Brian Holt and David Gwaltney each homered for the ICU. In the second game we are up 10-2 before the got 8 runs in the 4th inning and 4 runs and the 5th to lead 14-10 going to the top of the 6th when we got 8 runs to lead 18-14. The Dynasty was only able to get 1 run in the bottom of the 6th, and time ran out with ICU getting a 18-15 vicory. We did suffer three injuries in the second game, we had two players with pulled hamstrings and one pulled groin. I was not one of the injured, we have a week off to recover from all on the injuries because we don't play again until next thursday on Lakeview #1 at 6:30pm. MICKEY

Softball Season Starts Tonight

Well it's opening night for the ICU softball team, hopefully I will have some good news from tonights game on thursdays blog. We should have at least 12 players tonight so we cant have more than two people go down with injuries. Also today in GA the Crawford County Middle School Eagles play the Taylor Street Middle School Gryphons, Scott said he didn't know what a Gryphon was. Since he didn't I figured I would to a little research and found out that a Gryphon is a legendary creatures: creatures that are or have been believed to be real, but have not been verified by modern western science, I hope that explains what it is. The Riverdogs signed a guy named Dennis Mullen yesterday, Scott might remember him as he use to play for the Macon Whoopee a few years ago. The coach of the Riverdogs said he liked him because him because he has a mean streak and that he has some anger management issues, Coach Nichols went on to say he likes that in a person. I also have enclosed a few photos Scott sent me from his visit to CH a few weeks ago. Don't forget game time is at 8:15 at Lakeview #2 field. MICKEY

PS I HAVE ADDED THE PHOTO FROM SCHOOLS WEBSITE

Back To School Here In CH

Well it's that dreaded time of the year, the first day of school. I know there are some people who look foward but there a few who read Mickey's Place that agree with me. Well mom doesn't have to worry about it anymore since she is retired. Well it's just one day from opening day for our ICU softball team, don't forget game time is 8:15 wed night, we are just hoping to get thru opening night without any injuries. Well for those who didn't stay up to see it FL State beat Miami 10-7 last night, I didn't stay up either. MICKEY

Labor Day

Well it's nothing better than a three day weekend, just the xtra day of rest makes it good. My day did get off to a good start when I went to Wal-Mart and they actually had the donuts ready before 7am for a change, so I was happy. Well Va Tech held on for 20-16 vicory of NC State, it looked like they might lose there for a while but they pulled it out. Va Tech plays Duke next week so they shpuld be 2-0 in the ACC after next week. I also watched race from about half way on last night and Kyle Busch became the youngest winner in cup history. Jeff Gordon, Ryan Newman, and E Sadler will have to race there way into the chase next saturday night in Richmond, if they want have shot at the championship. Our softball game wed night is 8:15 not 8:30 if anybody wants to come root us on, the game will be played on Lakeview #2 field. I have enclosed a couple on photos one is of Al and Andrew posing by a street sign with the Goulder name on it and the other is of Dusty's new lawn mower and it's cutom design. MICKEY

A Few Thoughts

The Cavs were very lucky to get the victory as bad as they played yesterday. It seemed like they had the game in hand and then the wheels just come off the bus. They had better be ready when they go to Syracuse or they might get blown right out of the Carrier Dome. The ACC had a couple of teams with some big out of conference wins yesterday Ga Tech, Clemson, and Boston Collge. They also had some teams lose that were favored in there games in Duke and Wake Forest. At ECU the fans were into the game from the start, the atmosphere was a whole lot better thatn it has been in the last three years, ECU has only 3 games the last three years. Tonight Va Tech takes on NC State in Raleigh, I think this game is going to be closer than most people think. I will be switching back in forth between the race and that game, that is after softball practice. Our softball team has it's first two games wed night at 8:30pm at Lakeview #2 field, our team will be known as ICU which stands for Intensive Care Unit. The weather has been pretty good here in CH, it hasn't been to hot and this week it looks like the temps will be in the 80's most of the week, we could use some rain though. Since monday is Labor Day I think I am going to take the day off, and I think everbody else should take the day off as well. I have posted some college football photos, all the photos came from AP. MICKEY

Pirates Win

Well the ECU Pirates got the season off on the right foot today with a 24-20 victory over Duke today in Greenville, NC. The Pirates played well for the most part and the defense saved the day with several key int's. The Pirates are off next weekend before going to Wake Forest on the Sept 17. There was one major upset today with TCU from CONF USA stunned Oklohoma 17-10 in Oklohma. It also appears UVA and GA will get victories today, both are leading big as I write this. In high school action last night Crawford County fell 45-7 to Manchester and at the beach Manteo crushed First Flight 55-0. I have posted a few photos Scott sent me from GA. MICKEY

A Three Day Weekend

Well its friday and what's better that have a three day holiday weekend. Well I guess for some it means the start of a new school year, some people might be looking foward to it while some other people may not be. There was only one mild upaet in college football last night and that was Vanderbilt beating Wake 24-20. South Carolina defeated UCF 24-15, UMASS 19 Richmond 6, Marshall defeated W&M 36-24. I will be making the trip to Greenville, NC saturday to see if ECU can upset Duke, hopefully it will be a close game, there haven't been to many close ones lately at ECU. I am sure Scott will try to get some photos from the Crawford County game tonight, Scott you neeed to get Joy an e-mail address at home so she can sign on the blog. The Colonials will make there football debut next friday night at home against the Brunswick Buldogs. MICKEY

Well It's That Time Of The Year, Football Season

Well it's that time of year, football season really starts to kickoff this weekend starting tonight. Vandy is at Wake Forest-4, UMASS is at Richmond and Bill&Mary is at Marshall in games of interest tonight. The rest of the weekends college games hast Duke-2.5 at ECU, Western Michigan at UVA-33, Boise St at GA-7.5, VA Tech-3.5 at NC State, and Miami-3 at Fla. St. In high school sction Crawford County plays at Manchester, Manteo at First Flight, and CH has a scrimmage game tonight at Amelia. The NFL doesn't start until next week. I have encloses some photos of the Crawford County Middle School game that Scott took yesterday, the Eagles lost 27-6. I am going to see the Duke at ECU game saturday. MICKEY

Breaking News From Louisa County

George sent me this e-mail tonight, We have some breaking news from Louisa County to tell the clan in the Heights..Melody is pregnant. She is 9 weeks along and expected to deliver April 7th. As can be expected we are very excited to say the least. I also dont get to name him or her Dale according to Melody. But its still early.Well that was our news flash so be sure to pass it along as I have lost most everyones email addresses. take care and hope all is well ...See ya George. George do you ever look at the blog anymore, haven't seen any comments lately, MICKEY

Well It's Middle Week

Well it's the middle of the week and it has been very qiute around here for the most part. The area where the hurricane hit is just a mess and the situation seems to be getting worst by the day. As the news get to the areas where they haven't been yet the video and pictures they take are just just devastating. The ACC season gets underway tommorrow with Vanderbilt playing at Wake Forest, the Demon Deacons are favored by more than a TD. I will have some comments on the other big games this weeknd from around VA and the country on friday. I will be going to see the Duke at ECU game saturday, hopefully the new coach at ECU will turn things around, Skip Holtz is the new coach. I have enclosed an old photo found of Claire and Bobby. MICKEY

Katrina Causes Major Damage And Loss Of Life

Katrina caused major damage yesterday in LA, MISS, and AL. The storm has killed at least 55 people and officials with emergency management say they are afraid that # will go up greatly. The pictures and video from the area are just unbelievable. It could weeks till months before some of that are that was effected will have power again. Scott did you see any tornados yesterday in Crawford County, I saw that there was a possible tornado there yesterday. It was a pretty nice day here in CH yesterday, but it is going to be hot and humid the next few days with a chance of t-storms. This storm make Isabel look like a minor storm, and we know how much dicomfort we had with that storm. Well the only good news that I see this week is that college football starts this week. MICKEY

Hurricane Katrina Makes Landfall

It looks like Hurricane Katrina will make landfall before 8am this morning in the area just east of New Orleans. The Weather Channel says the eye should cross over the area of Grand Isle or just east of that. The winds are about 150mph this morning which is down from 175mph but still very strong. The storm has picked up some foward speed and it still appears that the remnants will miss VA and it may give GA a little rain. It is going to be a long day in Miss and La today. MICKEY

Is This Scott At THe Football Game Friday Night?

Somebody sent me this photo from the Crawford County football game friday night and they say it could be Scott in the mascot uniform showing his Colonial spirit. He was no where to be found when this photo was taken. MICKEY

Hurricane Katrina Bearing Down On Miss Or La Coast

It looks like Hurricane Katrina will either hit the LA or MISS coast sometime monday. This storm is a CAT 5 storm with winds sustained at 160MPH, this storm they say is stronger than Camille now. I have enclosed a SAT photo of the storm and a projected path also, this storm huge in size and the eye is 30 miles wide. If a storm of this size hit the OBX I don't know if anything would be left. What about the race last night in Bristol, it was a pretty wild one and tempers were very short at the end of the race. I think Newman got what he deserved, and I am glad Jarrett put him back in his place. I know he said he didn't mean to wreck Jarrett on purpose but he did, and if you can dish it out on the track you have be able to take it. I would have rather seen Burton or Rudd win though. I will he heading back to CH later today, and Donna don't forget you have to go back to school monday, MICKEY

High School Football

Scott sent me this report from Ga, First half was a defensive battle that sent both teams to the locker room tied at zip, although cchs had a slight advantage in the field position game. After the half time break the mighty eagles came out fired up and managed to grind out two touchdowns on the ground behind the speedy yet tough running back danny glover #2. the point after on the first TD was good and the second was wide left. The eagle defense was tough in the first half , but they were stifiling in the second pinning taylor county down on their own goal line late in the fourth quarter forcing them to punt. But the snap went over the punters head and out of the end zone for a safety. So the Crawford county eagles break their 10 game losing streak and beat their arch rivals in the season opener 15-0 their was a good crowd at the game and both teams were represented well. Here at the beach First Flight lost 34-6 to Camden. I went to the CH scrimmage last night and the Colonials looked a bit rusty, while I was there Nottoway scored one TD and the Colonials didn't score. The Colonials have two weeks to work out the bugs. All photos taken by Scott. MICKEY

Andrew's Visit To Camden Yards

A photo taken of Andrew during his visit to Camden Yards a few weeks ago. As you can see he is wearing his Colonial colors proudly. MICKEY

Al's Photo In Times Dispatch

One of Al's racing photos was in the the Times Dispatch this morning on the last page of the sports section. The TD did a story on a driver from VMS and used on of his photos in the story. Donna said she just got back from a redneck vacation, she went to NC with her daughter Julianne to visit several of the Nextel Cup team shops, and she says she only got lost a few times. Tonight is a big night in Crawford County as the Eagles play there arch rival Taylor County in football, from what I have heard those Taylor County boys are mean. At the beach First Flight is back in action tonight as they play at Camden, the Nighthawks lost last week to Northside. The Colonials football team has a scrimmage game against Nottoway tonight at the CHHS football field. It still looks like Hurricane Katrina is heading towards GA, but it looks like it might take a more westerly track now thru GA instead of right over Knoxville GA. Well I am of to work, MICKEY

College Football Starts A Week From Today

Well college football will start a week from today with several games around the country with a couple of games of interest around here with UMass at Richmond and Vanderbilt at Wake Forest. Then most of the rest of teams around here play on saturday and Va Tech plays NC State on sunday. I don't know about you but I am ready for some colllege football. Scott it appears TS Katrina is heading right towards Crwaford County by tuesday, it could bring allot rain to the area it crosses. Where has everybody been the last few days it has been awful quite here on the blog. MICKEY

Cool Day In CH

It was a pretty cool day yesterday here in CH and we didn't get as much rain as the weatherman thought. The temps the rest of the week are suppose to be in the mid 80's. We had another softball practice last night and it appears that opening night will be the wed after labor day, I will let everybody know for sure though when we get the schedule. The Braves had better get back on track because the Phillies are closing fast along with Fla and Washington. Scott send me some reunion photos if you get a chance, and are the Crawford County boys ready for the big matchup against Taylor County. It won't be long now before all high school, collges and the NFL will playing every week. I have an enclosed an old sunrise photo from the OBX. MICKEY

Waterspout On Hatteras Island

I got these photos of a messageboard from the OBX, I don't know if I would have stood there as the waterspout came by. These photos were taken today, MICKEY